Monroe News

Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood says three people have been arrested and officers have seized more than nine pounds of methamphetamine, with a street value in excess of $400,000 in his county.

It's an unusual crime continue to sweep across Georgia -- the theft of pecans. Sheriff's departments across the state have been seeing reports of the nut crimes for the past several months as wholesale prices for pecans have shot sky high.

Nothing was stolen from one man's Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but some of his belongings were laying on the ground near the vehicle.

Authorities still don't know what happened to a missing Walton County man whose car was found abandoned two weeks ago north of downtown Athens.

The full release from Allison Selman-Willis of the Monroe S.O. follows: A Macon man was found shot and killed in south Monroe County today, January 31, 2011 after a brief missing persons investigation.

Relatives of a Walton County man remain hopeful that Charles Stephen Parker will be found alive and well, more than a week after he went missing under suspicious circumstances.

Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's database.

The following information -- names, photos, addresses, charges and other details -- was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff's Office jail records.

Even as the family of missing Walton County man prepares for a noon press conference today, ominous new developments in the case have emerged.

A Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are asking anyone who saw Charles Steven Parker in Athens on Sunday to contact them.

Authorities reported Thursday they'd made little progress in their search for a Walton County man whose car turned up this week in Athens, three days after he went missing under suspicious circumstances.