Homerville News

In two separate cases, agents with the South Georgia Drug Task Force nabbed two in drug-related incidents.

In two separate cases, agents with the South Georgia Drug Task Force nabbed four in Clinch County recently.

Peg Blitch is possibly one of the few people in Georgia to have served in all three branches of government.

A freeze warning is in effect for Coffee, Jeff Davis, Bacon, Appling, Wayne, Atkinson, Ware, Pierce, Brantley, and inland Glynn Counties from 1 am to 9 am Tuesday.

THUMBS UP: To members of the Georgia Search and Rescue Task Force No. 2 for their efforts to rescue three workers trapped in a water tower in Homerville for several hours.

The Valdosta Daily Times Injured worker Jose Alfredo Suarez-Torres is taken to a waiting ambulance after being rescued from inside a water tower Monday night in Homerville.

U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston will sponsor a series of workshops during the open enrollment season for the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.

Three men were sandblasting the inside of the drained tank in Clinch County when something went wrong.

Dozens of emergency personnel from several counties have been called to the scene of an accident in Homerville, Ga.

Former Alapaha Circuit Judge Brooks E. Blitch III has been sentenced to three years probation and fined $100,000 in federal court.

THUMBS DOWN: To all those who would think it's acceptable to shout racial slurs from afar during a peaceful poetry reading.

Clinch County is closer to taking over another unwanted state asset, a jail to go with its golf course.

An undercover operation by the South Georgia Drug Task Force led to the arrest of a Homerville man last week.

Representative Jack Kingston stopped in Homerville Monday morning for his 18th town hall meeting on health care reform.

An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a Homerville man on drug-related charges Thursday.

Rep. Jack Kingston announced that he will host a town hall meeting to discuss health care in Homerville.

Each year, we pull the two numbers out from our memory banks, dust them off and recall one of the darkest days in our country's history.

A former Superior Court judge pleaded guilty to a federal corruption charge Friday after striking a deal to avoid prison, ending a lengthy legal battle that toppled him from his post as one of rural Clinch County's most powerful politicians.

Former Alapaha Circuit Judge Brooks E. Blitch III is reportedly scheduled to enter a plea this morning in federal court, according to a Thursday evening report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The AJC story attributes court documents and claims the plea will be in relation to a count of fraud.

Two regional genealogy libraries are set to merge, creating what may be the most comprehensive genealogy facility in the Southeast.