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Middle school wrestling team opens its season
The Colquitt County middle school wrestling team split a pair of matches with Lowndes and Cook on Wednesday at the Pineland gymnasium in its third competition of the season.
A teenager reported she was shot in the foot with a BB gun early Thursday morning.
Aldridge pleads guilty to manslaughter
A Moultrie man on trial in a fatal 2007 shooting abruptly entered a guilty plea Tuesday after court proceedings had ended for the day.
Grant to fund tax education, fight dropout problem
A community collaborative will fight poverty by putting into action the Chinese proverb that teaching people to fish produces lifetime results.
Jury convicts Moultrian of selling cocaine
The conviction Thursday of a Moultrie man on cocaine charges wrapped up criminal court proceedings for the month.
Federal stimulus money saved more than 1,700 jobs at the University of Georgia - at least according to figures the university submitted to the state to be included in a nationwide federal database.
Moultrie native returns home, now chosen to lead
After spending several years away from her hometown, Councilwoman-elect Susie Magwood-Thomas returned to Moultrie recently with years of experience and a focus on education.
Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, include Bernice Louise Schulze Lindley, 81, of Moultrie; Pauline Mittie Hewett Jones, 81, of Moultrie; David Lee Smythe, 62, of Dixie, Ga.; Lenora Plymel Davis, 97, of Tallahassee and formerly of Moultrie; and Gregory Arnold Allen, 37, of Tifton, and formerly of Moultrie.
Suspect accused of resisting arrest
An Albany man was apprehended after he allegedly damaged a car then resisted law enforcement officers Saturday morning.
Two men were apprehended after they allegedly were seen gambling outside Wednesday night.
Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009, include Joseph "Joe" H. Ponder, 89, of Pelham; Margie Lewis Dees, 76, of Ozark, Ala.; Cora Lynell Baker Flowers, 74, of Norman Park; Steven Hanna, 56, of Norman Park; Rulan Daniel McWaters II, 25, of Pensacola and formerly of Moultrie; and Sixto Ortega Rojas, 67, of Bainbridge, Ga.
Savannah senator brings gubernatorial campaign to Moultrie
Georgia's former Senate president pro tempore came through Moultrie Thursday as part of his campaign for the state's top governmental job.
Moultrie non-profit accused of inflating stimulus reports
But an investigation by the Associated Press questions that number. They say many community agencies are using a formula provided by the government that instructs them to count salary raises as jobs saved by stimulus money.
Ameris Bancorp Announces Acquisition of United Security Bank
Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIS BANCORP , announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ameris Bank, has entered into a definitive agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporate to assume all of the deposits and acquire certain assets of United Security Bank, a full service bank headquartered in Sparta, Georgia, with an ...
Moultrie Tech holds a career fair
Moultrie Technical College held a job fair at it's Tifton campus. Hundreds of people showed up to visit with more than 50 employers and to see what kinds of fields that the college has to offer.
Woman charged with prostitution, man with DUI, both with drugs
Police officers interrupted what they said was a tryst between a man and a prostitute Wednesday night.
Salary Raise Counted As Saved Job
The government's latest count of stimulus jobs significantly overstates the effects of the $787 billion program under a popular federal preschool program, raising fresh questions about the process the Obama administration is using to tout the success of its economic recovery plan.
Moultrie homeowner holds would be burglar at gunpoint
A Moultrie home owner took matters into his own hands, holding a would be burglar at gunpoint until police arrived.
Moultrian assaulted, robbed Saturday
A Moultrie man reported he was held up and robbed at gunpoint Saturday night. A Colquitt County sheriff's deputy was called to Highway 133 South at 9:26 p.m. about a robbery.