Early County News

EARLY COUNTY GA: A water accident has injured three people on the Chattahochee River.

A teenager is charged with murdering another teen during a fight Sunday night in Early County, and investigators say they'll likely arrest more people.

Students at Bainbridge College Early County Site were among the students honored at two Bainbridge College events in the Work Ethic program.

Thanks to the hard work of personnel from several counties, Bainbridge College Early County Site holds the distinction as Early County's first business to be certified WORK READY.

EARLY COUNTY GEORGIA: Emergency Officials from Georgia and Alabama are on the scene of Andrews Dam looking for a missing fisherman.

On Wednesday they set up a multi-agency road block in Early County looking for all types of infractions.

The Decatur-Miller Disaster Recovery Center that opened April 29 assists flood survivors in Decatur, Miller and Mitchell counties who were affected by storms and flooding that started March 26.

Health Officials have issued a Boil Water Order for private wells in Colquitt, Decatur, Miller, Seminole, Tift and Turner counties.

An estimated 2,000 people poured into Blakely's court square to boost the image of the peanut.

Mike Newberry climbs into his silver GMC pickup, driving west down Highway 62 a familiar 22 miles from his farm.

After a story we aired last week, a woman involved in the ring turned herself in.

Investigators say the problem started with a burglary in Early county where thieves stole two books of checks.

The college will move to a 4-day week starting May 11th. The trial ends July 31st.

This rural stretch of southwest Georgia has long been tied to the peanut, and to give the region's famed cash crop due reverence, an 8-foot monument topped by a peanut carved from marble sits in the shadow of ...

Over the past two weeks I have watched a very sad story unfold in our small town of Blakely.

In two weeks, this small Southwest Georgia town has gone from self-professed "Peanut Capital of the World" to Peanut Center of the Universe - for all the wrong reasons.

Federal and state officials are focusing on a Georgia peanut butter plant as a potential source in the national outbreak of salmonella illness, officials said Wednesday.

William Hovey Smith's Dec. 15 letter to the editor which contends that plans to build a coal-fired electricity-generating plant in South Georgia's Early County will boost the area's economy, is a bunch of ...