Americus News

* Timothy R. Heath, 22, of 450 Candy Lane, Ellaville is charged with possession of marijuana and was released on summons to appear in court.

Americus police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating the slaying of a 46-year-old woman found dead in her home.

We're following a developing story in Americus. Right now, Americus Police, the Sumter County Sheriff's Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents are looking for a murderer.

You will find her in her office inside the brick walls of the Rees Park Economic Development Center, working furiously behind her desk.

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please send to Steppin' Out, c/o Americus Times-Recorder, P.O. Box 1247, Americus, GA 31709, or fax to 928-6344 or e-mail to ...

Nine South Georgia Technical College students earned the right to travel to Kansas City, Missouri to compete in the Skills USA National Leadership and Skills Conference against the top students from technical college across the United States.

"It is so hot outside!" "How do you like this heat?" "It's so hot you can fry an egg outside!" Almost anywhere you go now, you are bound to be greeted by at least one of the previous statements, or at least have the weather as a topic of conversation.

* Coderal Thornton, 18, of 805 Fulton St., Americus is charged with assault and battery, and was released on summons to appear in court.

Earlier in the week, in two different editions of this newspaper, reports published concerning incidents at reported "private club," nicknamed "The Boom Boom Room" on Rainbow Terrace.

The Americus City Council met Thursday in its regular monthly session and to hold two public hearings as required by law.

It is a story that makes for a good family movie. You know the type - the ones that are shown on the Lifetime channel or a Sunday night Hallmark movie - heartwarming, touching, a story of a making of a family filled with all the happiness and hurts that go with it.

Superintendent Katie Brochu will serve Whitfield County Schools through 2012 under a contract extension the board approved unanimously during a called meeting on Monday.

At approximately 10:47 p.m. Saturday, Sumter County Sheriff's deputies responded to Tower View Road in reference to a traffic accident, according to sheriff's reports.

In Thursday's Times-Recorder, an article was published, titled, Rulebreakers Fined, explaining the water restrictions on the city of Americus and how the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources still had Americus under a level 2 drought restriction.

An Ellaville man was killed and his passenger seriously injured in a one-vehicle traffic crash mid-day Friday in Schley County.

She was released on summons to appear in court. * Brenda H. Brown, 48, of 1302 Second Montgomery St., Americus is charged with disorderly conduct.

While driving around this fair city over the past couple of weeks, you might have noticed a strange occurrence that has been happening in Americus.

Curtis Jamieson,a resident of Phoenix City, Alabama, and International President of the Heaven's Saints Motorcycle Ministry, speaks with strength and knowing as he talks of a night, when he was "rolling" with the wrong type of motorcycle club, and he almost died.

Editor's Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin' Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please send to Steppin' Out, c/o Americus Times-Recorder, P.O. Box 1247, Americus, GA 31709, or fax to 928-6344 or e-mail to ...

Hydrant Testing: The Americus Fire & Emergency Services is testing hydrants until all City hydrants have been tested.