Mitchell County News

The latest unemployment numbers for counties are a mixed bag, with some counties showing an increase in joblessness while others saw falling unemployment.

His family still needs help with medical bills and travel costs, so friends are putting on a benefit concert Saturday.

Hannah and Will Bius, daughter and son of Martin and Denise Bius, showed the grand champion commercial and registered heifers at the Decatur County Fall Festival and Fair Beef Cattle Show held on Nov.

Six Pelham men have been identified as among the more than 15 drug suspects that federal, state and local law enforcement officials were rounding up today in Pelham.

ALBANY, GA With the threat of wind and heavy rain from Ida, farmers are working overtime to protect their crop.

Governor Sonny Perdue officially signed off on nearly $66 million in stimulus-funded transportation projects.

BOY MEDAL WINNERS: Top five boys finishers at Saturday's Southwest Georgia Middle School Cross Country Championships stand with their medals.

People who live on Bowles Road and Old Bainbridge Road in Baconton reported the four teens suspicious behavior Monday.

Despite reports of damage caused by storms and possibly a tornado in Sumter County overnight Thursday, Colquitt County was spared from any major damage.

Spring Hill Free Will Baptist church will have its homecoming on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 11 a.m., with the Rev.

There is new information on a weekend shooting and chase that ended in a three car crash with the suspect shot in the arm.

A suspect in a Mitchell County theft investigation was shot trying to flee from a deputy.

They first showed off their skills in Grady county in June, hit this Ochlocknee store in July, and attempted to steal an ATM in Mitchell county in August.

A newcomer to the Georgia Legislature told the Moultrie Rotary Club about his experiences at the club's meeting Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of the bio-fuel are shipped out of the ethanol plant in Mitchell County daily, and Firefighters need special training and equipment to extinguish ethanol if it catches fire.

Shortly before 5:30 Friday afternoon Pastor J. Colburn Hobbes was held up at Lighthouse Community Church on Highway 19 at Mill Pond Road near Pelham.

The University of Georgia invited a number of talented juniors to check the Bulldogs out in their home opener against Eastern division opponent South Carolina.

Drug agents say the Mimosa Trailer Park on Clark Avenue and Mock Road is a hot spot for drugs and prostitution.

A Decatur County man is charged with gunning down his common-law wife early Sunday morning in Mitchell County.

It's hasn't been the smoothest ride for Georgia's only corn-based ethanol plant in Mitchell County.