Brooks County News

Editor's Note: In the last few days, The Times has received a number of telephone calls from readers requesting an update on the cat burnings that took place in Brooks County in December 2008.

A 30-year-old Brooks County man who admitted e-mailing inappropriate material to children is in custody in Brooks County.

The GBI says in May, 30-year-old Donald Powell of 1400 Coffee Road in Dixie took several photos of a young child and posted them on the internet.

Strange seeing a Swiss family pull up to The Crescent, a building they believe, like so many area folks also wrongly think, is something from the fictional Civil War of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind." The Crescent is not a remnant of the Civil War, though its history is no less fascinating.

The developers of a $140 million retirement village in Oconee County have put their plans on hold because of the national credit crunch.

A big rave to Mr. Trey Giddens, chorus department head at Berrien High School. He has brought some wonderful theatrical experience to the school.

Brooks County Sheriffs have arrested thirty-three-year-old Willie Phelps and charged him with the murder of 19 year old Christopher Deshad Sloan.

The unemployment rate in Colquitt and surrounding counties increased slightly or held even in April, with the exception of Brooks County, which saw an improvement of 0.5 percentage points, according to figures released Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor.

The college will begin offering an Associate's Degree in Nursing this fall. They're partnering with Southwest Georgia Technical College in Thomasville, which will provide much of the faculty.

The underside of Miller Bridge over the Little River on the border of Lowndes and Brooks counties.

The Brooks County Sheriff's Office arrested three individuals on Monday, May 18, charging each of them with possession of methamphetamine.

Tomorrow, Brooks County will celebrate Georgia's official state fruit - the almighty peach.

Exhuming a stain on Valdosta's past this Saturday may finally put murdered Mary Turner to rest.

Paul Leavy/The Valdosta Daily Times Shanda White tutoring Brooks County Elementary fourth grade student LaJoy Can'Kyne in the school's media center.

A suspect in a prescription-fraud case left local pharmacies twice before narcotics agents arrived.

52-year-old David Herndon has been arrested, and charged with manufacturing crystal Methamphetamine.

It was a very busy weekend for Moultrie and Colquitt County law enforcement as numerous reports of crime ran the gamut from assaults to criminal damage to property.

Paul Leavy/The Valdosta Daily Times The crowd listens to the opening remarks from District Attorney David Miller at the Brooks County National Victims' Rights Week annual Cookout and Awards Ceremony in Quitman Friday.

A Dixie man who has served two prison terms for drug convictions and is on probation in a methamphetamine conviction is back in jail in another meth case.

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