Douglas News

The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals announced recently that Sen. Greg Goggans has been named as its 2009 "Legislator of the Year." In announcing the award, the Alliance specifically praised Goggans for his leadership on healthcare issues at a critical time in Georgia's history.

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.

33-year old Jonathan Thompson, known as "John John" is wanted in the shooting death of 18-year old Demea Andrews.

Police say at about 4:00 Sunday afternoon, an 18-year-old was shot in his back at Roundtree Park on Gaskin Avenue in Douglas.

The GBI Crime Lab has identified the body found last week in a Coffee County cotton field as Tina Davis of Coffee County, W/F, 42 years of age.

"Civil Rights and Southern History: Perspectives from a Native Son" by guest speaker Michael Butler, Ph.D. is the topic for the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Obama's team is touting the "progress" of their stimulus package. They've claimed that it has saved 1 million jobs "so far." Numbers released today claim the actual total of jobs saved is 650,000. Even that number is questionable, but White House officials insist this confirms their estimates of 1 million because the 650,000 "do[es] not include ...

On Thursday, October 29, 2009, the Coffee County Sheriff's Office was contacted at approximately 10:11 a.m. in reference to a farmer finding a body in his cotton field located off a dirt road on 441 north of Broxton.

The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money.

On Sunday, October 25, 2009, at approximately 1:00 a.m., the Broxton Police Department requested assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Douglas Office to assist with investigating the death of Jason L. Rish, 34 YOA, of Broxton, Ga.

The Spike Jonze-Dave Egger's adaptation of the 1963 children's book "Where The Wild Things Are" is so gigantic in its scope, you don't know whether to wrap your arms around it, or dismiss it as too large to embrace.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: American Land and Mortgage Corp of Jacksonville, Fla.; to Jimmy Monday of Jacksonville, Fla.; 0.5 acre property is located at 181 Robin Lane for $16,375. Elliott Family Limited Partnership, LLLP of Douglas, Ga.; to Rest Awhille Farms, LLC of ...

The Colquitt County Farm Bureau is having its "Harvest for All" food drive campaign.

Most of metro Atlanta remains under a flood warning until 11:30 p.m. The National Weather Service issued the warning for Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Cherokee, Forsyth, Douglas and Paulding counties.

The Moultrie Police Department added two supervisors and two patrol officers to its roster this week.

Pilgrim's Pride closed its Douglas plant in May. Now, there's a chance the plant could reopen.

A federal jury has awarded the owners of a defunct Georgia paving company $150 million after finding that the company lost valuable state road contracts because a Marietta laboratory used a flawed method in assessing its work.

Although Douglas County suffered six deaths in Monday's floods, the worst in the metro area, it's property damage was lighter than surrounding counties like Cobb and Paulding.

Sun is peeking out at Atlanta now, signaling that the worst is likely to be over.

An indictment accusing a former Dodge County sheriff for paying voters for their votes in 2004 was unsealed today, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.