Crawford County News

The Freshman Academy FFA chapter and agriculture education program received a visit recently from two of the 2009-10 state FFA officers.

The Flint Energies Foundation recently awarded a total of $10,000 to 12 teachers in Houston, Macon and Taylor counties.

Crawford County authorities say serving a search warrant in attempts to find inmate escapee David Maynard Morris Jr.

The search for an escaped jail inmate led Crawford County deputies to four methamphetamine suspects, the sheriff says.

An escaped inmate from Crawford County is back in jail. According to a Crawford County Sheriff's Office news release, David Morris Jr., 36, was caught at a home on Tidwell Road in Bibb County Wednesday evening.

The Crawford County sheriff says no one will be charged in Saturday morning's hunting accident that injured a Byron man.

A man suffered an accidental gunshot wound to the abdomen Saturday morning near Roberta.

The Crawford County Sheriff's Office says a man was accidentally shot Saturday morning.

Crime scene in aftermath of fire at 162 Park View in Salem Community Thursday, Oct.

Capt. William Hosley says the charges stem from a Thursday-morning fire at the home of Michael and Dorothy Walker.

A Crawford County jail inmate escaped from custody Tuesday night, according to the Crawford County Sheriff's Office.

Local legislators said Wednesday that Bibb County will have to work with area counties to seek badly needed state money.

Memories are often short, but I'm guessing residents can remember the severe droughts Georgia has endured in the past few years.

A mother on MomsLikeMe.com wrote: My 12-year-old son lost his best friend that got hit in Crawford County.

The Georgia State Patrol responded to two serious car accidents Tuesday. Troopers were dispatched to a wreck in Crawford County at about 5:35 p.m. near the intersection of Carl Sutton and Hamlin roads where a child on a bicycle was fatally injured, according to Crawford County Sheriff Lewis Walker.

Crawford County deputies responded late Tuesday afternoon to a vehicle accident involving a juvenile riding a bicycle on Carl Sutton Road around 5:27 p.m. The juvenile was transported to The Medical Center of Central Georgia by Mid-Georgia Ambulance and was later pronounced dead.

Add Crawford County to the list of Georgia counties now eligible for federal disaster aid.

As people in Crawford County begin to recover from damage done by heavy rains and flooding last week, the county is asking for government disaster funding.

Blogroll Archives Posted on: September 22, 2009 9:02 AM, by Ed Brayton This is another appalling but entirely unsurprising story from the world of police corruption.

Heavy rains and flooding left about 150 homes in rural Crawford County without water.