Decatur County News

The annual Bainbridge-Decatur County YMCA Veterans Day Classic 10,000-meter, 3.1-mile run will be Saturday, Nov.

Two masked men robbed the Quick Buys convenience store in Bainbridge on Thursday night, the latest in a string of armed robberies in Decatur County.

The scars of rape linger and the violence is never forgotten by the victim. A south Georgia woman talks about an attack that happened 28 years ago when she was just a teenager and was raped by a man she knew.

Decatur County Sheriffa TMs deputies arrested four area teens after citizen tips helped lead to their capture in two separate burglary cases on Monday.

The annual Bainbridge-Decatur County Chamber of Commercea TMs Fall Festival and Faira 'featuring rides, attractions livestock shows, contests and concertsa 'will be Tuesday through Friday, Nov.

The general municipal elections for Bainbridge and Climax will be held on Tuesday, Nov.

Officials have reopened the bridge on Faceville-Attapulgus Road in southern Decatur County after making emergency repairs, County Administrator Tom Patton said Friday.

A Decatur County man who has served multiple prison stints has been arrested on suspicion of molesting two young girls, according to the Decatur County Sheriffa s Office.

An invasive pest that has plagued Georgia's neighbors to the south and west is making headway in south Georgia, posing headaches to landowners and threatening forests and native vegetation.

Five Star Credit Union announced it has been granted a Community Charter in Georgia to serve the estimated 28,000 citizens of Decatur County.

In a return visit to Bainbridge, author and motivational speaker Calvin Sims of Lithonia will speak Nov.

Saturday morning, in spite of cold weather, Bainbridge residents came together at the Earle May Boat Basin for the 11th annual Rivers Alive Cleanup Project.

Early voting for the November 3, 2009 General Municipal and Special Elections has begun.

Police, residents and even some of local grocery store managers have said they are fed up with seeing shopping carts strewn about all over the City of Bainbridge; but those shopping carts could soon become a little more scarce.

Decatur County, which faced a budget crisis earlier this year in part due to a decrease in property tax revenue, will likely use a novel approach to getting some property back on its tax rolls.

I've seen so many women here over the years. It has been such an honor to help care for the women of Bainbridge and Decatur County.

In the last month four Decatur county stores have been robbed and none of the robbers has been caught.

The toddler died. Troopers say 23-year-old Elizabeth Brown and her father were moving cars in their driveway on Vada Road last night as they moved some furniture.

The swine flu vaccine is now arriving in south Georgia, but you can't get it yet.

A BIKER FROM CLIMAX, Christopher Moore, got a flu shot without having to leave his motorcycle.