Cook County News

Adel, Georgia, - On Monday, December 14, 2009, at approximately 9:01 p.m., Cook County 911 received a call in reference to a shooting inside the Quick Stop, formerly the Holiday Market, located at 413 S. Hutchinson Ave., in Adel Georgia.

Due to inclement weather, area Christmas festivals and parades have been canceled.

An outstanding warrant led agents with the South Georgia Drug Task Force, as well as Cook County Sheriff's Office deputies, to arrest an Adel man on Tuesday.

The Adel-Cook County Chamber of Commerce will host a Brown Bag Lunch from 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. today on the Cook County Courthouse Lawn.

Members of the Honor Guard perform the final folding of the American flag that was draped over the coffin of U.S. Staff Sgt.

A memorial tribute will be held Saturday for Sparks native U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Briand Williams who died Nov.

A search warrant led to the arrest of three people on drug charges Monday. The South Georgia Drug Task Force assisted the Cook County Sheriff's Office in serving a search warrant at a residence on Brushy Creek Drive in Sparks, according to a press release from the task force.

Briand Williams died in combat when insurgents attacked his unit. He joined the army immediately after his Cook County High Graduation in 2002.

Law enforcement officials said around 4:20 a northbound semi slammed into the back of a tractor trailer that had slowed in right lane near exit 42.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has announced an I-75 northbound traffic shift beginning at 7 p.m., Thursday, in Cook County.

Businesses affiliated with the Adel-Cook County Chamber of Commerce are asked to be on the lookout for a possible scam in the area.

Students, faculty, and staff are collecting donations through the middle of November.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office says it's possible Parrish was getting a rifle out of his truck on Hutchinson Parrish Road when the rifle went off.

This one hosted by Congressman Jack Kingston. The town hall meeting is at Mathis City Auditorium at 9:30 a.m. A previous town hall on health care yielded an overflow crowd at Valdosta State University.

Two Cook County residents have been taken into custody and charged with drug-related crimes.

Sheriff officials say 30-year-old Robert Keith McCormick was cleaning the floors while on work detail when he slipped through a side door around midnight.

One Bridge has been closed since the floods in April, and officials don't know when it will be repaired nor who will pay for it.

Cook County, Georgia is home to Pastor Chris Newbern of 1st Assembly of God in Adel.

His goal is not only to raise money but to shine light on other issues as well. Chris Newbern works as a pastor in the small city of Adel Georgia, but he is attracting a large group of fans as the "pedaling pastor." A pastor with a bike and a life changing mission.

Many people say he shouldn't have spent a day in jail. Frank Hatley was ordered to jail for not paying child support, even though he's not the father of the child in question.