Dry Branch News

Before Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, he was just a talented, shy, skinny kid, wearing a tuxedo, his head slumped against a wall.

Bibb County deputies have a man in custody who led authorities on a 20-minute chase from downtown Macon to Dry Branch this morning, driving part of the way in oncoming traffic on Interstate 16.

The state Environmental Protection Division has noted three violations at Swift Creek Landfill after an investigation into an odor complaint at the private facility, an EPD official said this week.

Central Georgia state legislators seemed to disagree on how much they got done during the legislative session in Atlanta.

Twiggs County Commissioner Tommie Lee Bryant said Friday that he wants an outside investigation of the commission office to be sure that sales tax revenue is being properly handled.

The Twiggs County school system is planning to restart some student activities this fall that it had eliminated, officials told parents at a town hall meeting Monday.

Teachers with a national certification would continue to receive their 10 percent bonuses under legislation that narrowly passed the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday, but the program would be closed ...

The Twiggs County school board fired Superintendent Franklin Perry this week, but board members will say little about the circumstances.

A couple of years ago when Sheelah Hall opened a romance novel she'd picked up at the annual book sale in Macon, more than a love story spilled forth.

More details of a fray that sent hundreds of panicked teenage partygoers running into the Macon Coliseum parking lot Saturday night emerged Tuesday in a police memo.

When campaign promises are made, folks like to see that theyre carried out. One such promise made by Twiggs County Sheriff Darren Mitchum will come to fruition Saturday, when the department holds an open house ...

Former blues musician Robert Ward Sr. died Thursday afternoon at his home in Dry Branch from health complications, his widow said.