Helena News

A Dodge county man is facing several charges after investigators say he held another man against his will.

Rhett Lee had forgotten his drink at lunch that Friday, so he went back through the cafeteria line at Telfair County Middle School.

Dodge County Sheriff's Deputies arrested Scott Ryan Harrington, 20, for burglary.

Dodge County's former sheriff today denied paying for votes. At his arraignment at U.S. District Court in Dublin, 37-year-old Lawton Douglas and two other men pleaded not guilty to federal election fraud charges.

A federal indictment charging that a former Dodge County sheriff paid people for their votes in 2004 was unsealed Thursday.

A federal indictment says Dodge County's former sheriff won election by paying for votes.

A Dodge County woman accidentally backed over her two-year-old son with her car Wednesday, leading to injuries that caused the boy's death.

A Dodge County woman accidentally backed over her 2-year-old son with her car Wednesday, leading to injuries that caused the boy's death.

The near-silence is surprising, even confounding. A largemouth bass supposedly a tad bigger than the venerable world record has been caught, and there is no shouting from rooftops.

An Abbeville man was arrested and charged with murder in the death of a Helena resident Wednesday afternoon, a GBI spokesman said.

Strong storms rumbled through Metro Atlanta Sunday, May 3, 2009. Strong storms rumbled through Metro Atlanta Sunday, May 3, 2009.