Dougherty County News

ALBANY a ' Both the city and county commissions are currently mulling a resolution that would send a proposed charter for a new, unified government to Atlanta for consideration of a public, countywide referendum that could completely reshape local government in Albany and Dougherty County.

After an ongoing legal battle between Palmyra Medical Center and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, the hearing officer with the Certificate of Need Appeal Panel affirmed last month the original Department of Community Health decision to grant a CON to Palmyra to begin delivering babies.

Pembroke's country charm lured Boston-area native Cindy Milloy to the east Georgia city of about 2,300 people, and kept her there even after a muscular disease left her housebound in a region so rural it lacks a regular taxi service.

Health officials in Dougherty County stocked their refrigerator with hundreds of doses of the H1-N1 shot vaccine Tuesday in anticipation of Wednesday morning's clinic.

Judge Stephen Goss' Treatment Court Program won the Special Merit Award from the Rosalynn Carter Institute Caregivers program.

Swine flu shots are finally here. Even though the number of H1N1 deaths has been going up, few south Georgians have gotten the swine flu mist vaccine.

Sheriff's deputies and police officers were out in full force patrolling neighborhoods to keep children safe this Halloween.

Dougherty County Police plans to heavily patrol the roads Saturday night and will target impaired drivers.

Clay County Sheriff's investigators and the FBI have been notified regarding the arrest of a man in Dougherty County, Georgia.

Georgia has some of the toughest sex offender laws in the country. Registered offenders can't live or work within a thousand feet of anywhere children congregate.

36-year old Kenneth Kellam is charged with two counts of attempting to entice a child for indecent purposes, two counts of attempted child molestation, and one count of failing to register as a sex offender.

One of the break-ins was caught on tape. Watch this. A white car smashes down the front doors of the Hav-Mor Food Store on West Gordon at 5:10 Saturday morning.

As they hammer out a new budget, Georgia lawmakers are faced with the task of cutting two billion dollars in state spending.

Now, Investigators want to know if he has conned any other South Georgians. 38 year old Jody Newell was arrested last night, and charged with 3 counts of conversion of payments for real property improvements, and 3 counts of exploitation of the elderly.

Johnnie Graham says the case is an effort to cover up poor leadership in city government.

They say prostitution during the lunch hour is a big problem in parts of Albany.

Only 8 people showed up for the Dougherty County update on the Long Range Transportation Plan.

The procedure that many of us learned years ago is being updated and improved and may save more lives.

A 14-year-old Albany girl is being held in the stabbing death of a 12-year-old boy.

In Dougherty county, 8th grade CRCT math scores went up from previous years. 8th graders at Radium Springs Middle school showed a 13% increase.