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Valdosta Police: 13-year-old, 14-year-old arrested after leading police on car chase in stolen vehicle
A 13 and 14-year-old are both facing charges after leading police on a car chase in a stolen vehicle over the weekend in Valdosta, according to the Valdosta Police Department.
Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest deadline extended
HAHIRA – The Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest has extend the entry form deadline for two more weeks. Songwriters now have two more weeks, until Wednesday, August 7, to send in your story in song about any river, creek, spring, sink, swamp, pond, aquifer, or bay in the Suwannee River Basin or Estuary, except not in the Santa Fe River Basin.
Neuroscientist, CEO who pleads guilty in Mississippi welfare scandal case has local ties
A well-known neuroscientist and CEO who recently pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a Mississippi welfare scandal case has Tallahassee connections. Jacob VanLandingham, whose work on a nasal spray to treat concussions was once touted across the nation through his drug company Prevacus, is a former assistant professor and researcher at Florida State...
Oconee Blotter: Watkinsville mom forced at gunpoint to give son $5,000 check
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office reported the following incidents: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: On July 16, Deputy Collin Worsham was dispatched to the swimming pool area of a residential neighborhood under construction on Shagbark Way off Rocky Branch Road. Massive damage was found two months earlier to the new swimming pool area and a security camera caught the images of six young males engaged in the spree of destruction. Doors were ripped off hinges and battered with bricks, while...
Harris holds first Georgia rally as candidate, will return next week
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Kamala Harris touched down in Georgia on Tuesday for a kickoff rally in a state she knows well. “Oh, it’s good to be back in Georgia,” said Harris, taking the state to cheers from a crowd of several thousand. “The path to the White House runs right through this state.”
Georgia website that lets people cancel voter registrations briefly displayed personal data
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials are encouraging people to use a state website to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies, a nod to Republican concerns that there are invalid registrations on the rolls. But Monday’s rollout of the site by Republican Secretary of...
Georgia Board of Corrections chair dies in plane crash
ATLANTA — The board chairman of the Georgia Department of Corrections was among those killed in a plane crash in Wyoming late last week. Larry Haynie, his wife Melissa, and three members of an Atlanta family gospel group died when a single-engine turboprop piloted by Haynie crashed near Recluse, a town in northeastern Wyoming. The plane experienced an “autopilot issue,” according to initial findings reported by a spokesperson for the...