Ashburn News

Earnest Dove remembers his first day as a firefighter over 36 years ago - it was the day he applied for the job.

Thomas Lamar Burns, 31, 325 Old Omega Road, was charged Tuesday with a parole violation.

Teachers of the year Jennifer Gilstrap, Liberty County Pre-K Center Lisa Wright, Button Gwinnett Elementary school Matthew Anderson, Frank Long Elementary school Christina Moody, Jordye Bacon Elementary school Suzanne Harris, Joseph Martin Elementary school Jacqueline Jackson, Liberty Elementary school Janet Demmin, Lyman Hall Elementary school ...

John Hanna and Taylor Barber showed the grand and reserve champion Yorkshire gilts at the Decatur County Fall Festival and Fair breeding gilts show held Nov.

Justin Allen Culbertson, 20, 114 Christie Lane, Ocilla, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

Lauren Elizabeth Barrow, 20, 910 38th St., was charged Saturday with DUI, failure to maintain lane, an open container violation and driving without a license on person.

A Turner County jailer was shaken but not seriously injured Thursday morning when an inmate he was transporting to a Tifton doctor's appointment allegedly got out of his handcuffs and attempted to escape the patrol car.

Bernardo Cardenas Martinez, 31, 189 Cedar St., Omega, was charged Monday with driving without a license.

Now people in their hometown are stepping up to help surviving family members in this time of tragedy.

A Georgia woman has died from injuries sustained in a fiery crash on Interstate 10 near Siegen Lane early Friday.

Authorities say two adults and a toddler have died after a fiery accident on Interstate 10.

Jose Ascencion-Angel Bautista, 26, 114 Riverbend Drive, was charged Tuesday with failure to stop at a stop sign and driving with a suspended license.

Mediacom and WTXL TV ABC27HD began broadcasting Monday on Mediacom cable channels 5 and High Definition 805 in Tifton, Moultrie, Ashburn, Omega, Ty Ty, Sycamore and Sumner.

From the Annals of 1909 Rev. A.E. Sansburn, of Newnan, was in the city on the way to Macon to attend the Grand Chapter, R.A.M. Mr.

Ashburn police are questioning the husband of a woman shot to death in her home Thursday, but no one has been charged with the crime.

Ashburn Police are investigating a suspicious death. 54-year-old Rosemary Walker was found dead inside a home on Brown Avenue around noon Thursday.

Jennifer Lynn Cox of Valdosta, GA and Larry Linwood "Woody" Poston Jr. of Lake City were married at 11 a.m. March 28 at The Mansion of Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA.

An Ashburn man who is a registered sex offender and once lived in Tifton was convicted in Florida Thursday of beating, raping and stabbing to death a Clearwater mother of three.

Christopher Foster Jr., 27, 99 Tifton-Eldorado Road, was charged Monday with driving with a suspended license and driving without insurance.

Brittani Jean Barnes, 18, 119 Red Bird Lane, was charge Thursday with fighting in a public place.