Twiggs County News

The property revaluation process in Bibb County has garnered its share of headlines in recent months, but several other midstate counties are finishing up new assessments as well.

A grass fire that sent smoke billowing across I-16 in Twiggs County is now out. The Twiggs County sheriff's department says the fire happened in the median near exit 27, the Danville exit.

A Monroe County man has been accused of stealing more than a dozen four-wheelers throughout Georgia and in Alabama.

Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell helps children plant trees as part of an Earth Day event in 2005 in Powder Springs.

Who could do a better job? Judge Fowler has always treated me and my family with kindness and fairness.

John Poynter, Warner Robins High School Class of 1963, has started an ambitious family-history project.

Roadside repairs will close one lane on Interstate 16 eastbound in Twiggs County for a few days next week, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

It was during World War II that a group of ladies got together and formed the Major Philip Cook Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office wants you to be on alert for a scam. A news release from the sheriff's office says they have seen many cases where people are calling people claiming to be law enforcement officers.

The state's Commission on Judicial Qualifications is beginning formal proceedings against a Twiggs County probate judge they believe is abusing his power and suppressing the rights of defendants.

A Twiggs County man has been acquitted of charges that he held a deputy at gunpoint for 30 minutes at his Donnan Road house in 2007.

The owners of a Twiggs County hunting plantation have filed a federal civil lawsuit against the city of Jeffersonville, alleging stormwater run-off from a wastewater treatment facility has the potential to threaten birds and hunting dogs on their land.

Drivers commuting on Interstate 16 West Wednesday may run into some delays. A Twiggs County Sheriff's Office dispatcher says the interstate is shut down at exit 12 because of an overturned 18-wheeler. The dispatcher said the accident happened under the exit's bridge.

Milledge White, Sr., 103, passed from this life to eternity, peacefully on May 31, 2009 at 6:45p.m., at Morningside of Albany from natural causes.

He is buried in the shade of a dogwood tree, in a corner of the cemetery at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

A high speed Bibb County chase ends in Twiggs County with the suspect in custody.

A senior prank caused Twiggs County officials to delay the start of school Friday morning, school police said.

Bibb County sheriff's deputies say they chased an SUV on Interstate 16 when the driver fled after striking a sheriff's vehicle in Macon.

More than 80 landowners attended a public drop-in meeting this evening at the Wilson Convention Center to learn more about an upcoming cleanup survey at Camp Wheeler and how it will affect their properties.

Emergency Service Providers from around Central Georgia came to Sandy Beach Park at Lake Tobesofkee for the 8th annual Fun in the Sun Safety Festival.