Fitzgerald News

Memorial services will be held today, May 15, 2013, at 3 p.m., in Dorminy Mill Baptist Church, Ben Hill County, Ga., with the Rev.

Crime briefs: A woman reported Thursday that her nephew shot at her with a small revolver in the 100 block of Grove Street in Ty Ty after he got mad because she would not allow him to drive the car.

The Children's Minister said a 300% increase in young people being referred to detention facilities, caused the system to run out of places.

I think whoever would've won that year would have gotten shit from the other losers' fans.

The Great Gatsby" is the Hope Diamond of American cinema - priceless, enviable, impossibly tacky and bad, bad luck.

The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has rejected criticisms by the Garda Ombudsman that the force failed to co-operate with an investigation into alleged links between officers and a convicted drug dealer.

As the sound system pounds out "Glad You Came" by The Wanted, the doors to the modest gymnasium at Sope Creek Elementary School fly open, and children come streaming into the room, racing to take their place among the line dancers.

Suddenly there are 75 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders twisting, bending, lunging and hopping their way through a 20-minute set of dance tunes.

It may be 2013, but students at a Georgia high school made national headlines Saturday night by holding their first-ever integrated prom.

Earlier this month, the Ben Hill County Commission approved the honor for the county portion of the road.

A Europe-wide hotline for missing children is now operating on a full-time basis in Ireland.

A research professor with the ESRI is warning the government against putting an immediate end to austerity in Ireland.

From the Fletcher campaign- BJ Fletcher, local businesswoman, announced today that she is seeking the office of Albany City Ward III Commissioner.

Ben Hill County Sheriff's investigators are on the scene of two deaths just outside the city limits of Fitzgerald, where two people are dead.