Butts County News

Ms. Hunter Jones, formerly of Americus was recently named as the 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year for the Butts County School System.

Students at St. George's Episcopal School in Milner prepped for Halloween Friday with a costume promenade.

Plenty of entertainment and an array of simmering chili pots welcomed a host of participants to the second annual Dewaine T. Bell Chili Cook-off Thursday at Lamar County High School.

Three days of in the field criminal interdiction training for the Social Circle Department of Public Safety netted six arrests and more than 23 pounds of marijuana, $22,000 and three guns seized.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency to convicted killer Mark Howard McClain, scheduled to die Tuesday night.

Henry County Police are looking for a 10-year-old child who was taken from his school Monday afternoon by his mother.

Butts County deputies and other law enforcement officers have arrested two people driving a Dodge following a high speed chase.

The Butts County Sheriffa TMs Office has arrested two individuals suspected of being involved in a recent multi-county burglary ring.

According to Butts County Sheriff Gene Pope, the Tuesday afternoon arrests of Anton Sowell and Zenya Concepcion, two individuals suspected of involvement in a recent multi-county burglary ring, may have resulted in additional information in those many cases.

A police car chase that started in Monroe County has ended in Butts County, according to Allison Selman-Willis with the Monroe County Sheriff's Department.

Butts County deputies and other law enforcement officers have arrested two men driving a Dodge Magnum following a high speed chase, according to radio traffic.

A Butts County sheriff's deputy was life-flighted to Grady Hospital Thursday evening after his cruiser collided with a jackknifed tractor-trailer. The accident closed part of Highway 36 at Parker Branch Road in Lamar County.

A Butts County sheriff's deputy was injured after his patrol car collided with a tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon in Lamar County, the Georgia State Patrol said.

The Spalding County Board of Commissioners held a workshop Monday evening to discuss the acreage requirements for a county conservation program.

The Walton County jury that sentenced a Pendergrass man to death for killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend should have learned about his mental health, according to arguments made Monday to the Georgia Supreme Court by an attorney for the defendant.

Donnie Cleveland Lance suffered from lingering brain injuries caused by an old gunshot wound and drunken car wrecks when he went on a rampage in Jackson County in 1997, fatally shooting his ex-wife's boyfriend with a shotgun before beating her to death with the gun, according to his lawyers.

William Roger Waldrop of Rockmart has been named to the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission.

The Native American Festival at Indian Springs will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Beautiful Indian Springs State Park is located in Flovilla, Georgia near Interstate 75 and close to High falls State Park.

With to the addition of another 181 people to the job market, Lamar Countya TMs unemployment rate jumped to a record-breaking 16.4% in July, up .9% from a revised June count of 15.5%. Joblessness was 8.4% in July 2008.