Moultrie News

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.

A Moultrie man on trial in a fatal 2007 shooting abruptly entered a guilty plea Tuesday after court proceedings had ended for the day.

A community collaborative will fight poverty by putting into action the Chinese proverb that teaching people to fish produces lifetime results.

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.

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.

An Albany man was apprehended after he allegedly damaged a car then resisted law enforcement officers Saturday morning.

Tropical Storm Ida is expected to drop rain through much of today, but should not bring heavy winds to Southwest Georgia, a National Weather Service spokesman said.

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.

Georgia's former Senate president pro tempore came through Moultrie Thursday as part of his campaign for the state's top governmental job.

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.

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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.

Police officers interrupted what they said was a tryst between a man and a prostitute Wednesday night.

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.

A Moultrie home owner took matters into his own hands, holding a would be burglar at gunpoint until police arrived.

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.