Brantley County News

Meet Linda Bragg, a wife, mother and grandmother who has worked for nearly four decades in the Bryan County School system.

It was a deadly weekend in Southeast Georgia. Three people including two teenagers were killed and two others were injured in three separate crashes in Pierce and Brantley counties, state troopers said.

Billy Watson Billy Ray Watson 64, died Wednesday, June 17, 2009, in Brantley County, Georgia.

A former administrative assistant of Brantley County Sheriff Robert Thomas has agreed to accept a $100,000 settlement offer to end a wrongful termination lawsuit.

As law enforcement agencies clamp down on all-terrain vehicle riders illegally using public roads and rights of way, parks featuring four-wheeler trails and mud pits for "boggin'" are springing up in Southeast Georgia like cow-pasture mushrooms after a summer rain.

Dirt may be cheap, but Brantley County officials are tired of piling it up on low-lying roads only to see it wash into the Satilla River come the next flood.

Testifying to lavish spending, family discord and vicious threats on the part of their mother, Betty Jacobs, who eventually killed their father, Dr.

Bruce Davis sits rocking slightly with the two tools of his trade, a radio and a telephone, as his eyes that have never seen look straight into darkness.

Mobile Disaster Recovery Centers operated by the State of Georgia and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are operating in Dougherty and Brantley counties to assist people affected by the storms and flooding that began March 26.

The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center opened at Thornton Gym in Albany at noon Friday.

All flood warnings have been cancelled for the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry. All rivers have dropped below flood stage since we saw several heavy rain events in late March and early April.

Individual assistance can include grants to help pay for temporary housing and home repairs.

FEMA and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency have opened three disaster recovery centers to help people from 17 South Georgia counties affected by the storms and flooding that struck beginning March 26.

Teaching staffs will drop as class sizes grow next school year in Southeast Georgia and throughout the state.

State troopers are investigating a single-car crash that claimed the life of a Brantley County man Tuesday night near Hickox.

The ongoing flooding along the Satilla River not only damaged houses and property, the flood also produced river contamination, an environmentalist claims.

Jimmy Deen wanted to be close to the Satilla River when he moved to the 3R Fish Camp 30 years ago.

A flood warning continues for the Ohoopee River near Reidsville affecting Tattnall County.

Portions of U.S. 301 and U.S. 1 in Charlton and Brantley counties will be resurfaced as part of a first wave of transportation-related projects to be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Some Southeast Georgia residents fled rising flood waters today as rivers swollen from last week's heavy rains spilled over their banks into some homes and washed out roads in low-lying areas.