Pelham News

His family still needs help with medical bills and travel costs, so friends are putting on a benefit concert Saturday.

Benj, the 19 yr old son of Greg and Sheri Daniel, was critically injured in a car accident in early June, paralyzing him from the neck down.

A Pelham Elementary School student has died with complications from H1N1. The student had an underlying medical condition, according to fire Chief James Midgley.

"Sports alert! Pelham in the playoffs. They play Greenville Friday night. Go Hornets." "Why should the Fort Hood, Texas, shooter get a trial? He was seen by many pulling the trigger and was shot by the police to stop any further killing.

Six Pelham men have been identified as among the more than 15 drug suspects that federal, state and local law enforcement officials were rounding up today in Pelham.

Defendants in two separate cases pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison time, according to the office of District Attorney Joe Mulholland.

BOY MEDAL WINNERS: Top five boys finishers at Saturday's Southwest Georgia Middle School Cross Country Championships stand with their medals.

Christian Gualtieri was waiting for fellow trick-or-treaters to catch up with him on the road near 14 Fineview Circle when a strong gust of wind toppled a birch tree onto him Saturday night, police said.

Police arrested an 18-year-old Norman Park man after he allegedly brought a rifle to Colquitt County High School Wednesday afternoon.

Two women were apprehended after they allegedly tried to steal several pieces of clothing and abandoned a shopping cart with two children inside it Tuesday afternoon.

Eric Corp, from left, Nathaniel, 11 and Leif Corp, 8, carpool with other students on their way to the Pelham Elementary School, where Nathaniel is a sixth-grader and Leif is a third-grader. The dog is Ziti.

Due to bad weather in Sunday's forecast, the Pelham Fire Department's 10th annual "Horribles Parade" has been postponed.

Pelham Police say 18-year-old Joshua Griffin jumped behind the wheel of a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee at Flash Foods and sped south on Highway 19.

Police were called out to the William Alexander Homes on Martin Luther King Boulevard around 1 a.m. Officers found 43-year-old Shelly Davis outside an apartment suffering from several stab wounds.

Three men rushed in at closing time, held a knife to the clerk's neck and grabbed money from the register.

The School Administrative Unit 28 Joint School Board will vote tonight on funding for budget items, including a second assistant superintendent.

Two men have been arrested and charged with robbing three deacons at gunpoint behind their Camilla church.

Shortly before 5:30 Friday afternoon Pastor J. Colburn Hobbes was held up at Lighthouse Community Church on Highway 19 at Mill Pond Road near Pelham.

Monday, September 14, 2009 Active pallbearers will be Bert Ellis, Gene Hickey, Sydney Humphries, Kermit Gilliard, Sr., John Tillis, Zane Owens, Ken Hickey and Randy Hickey.

State cuts to community mental health programs, which locally resulted in the loss of treatment centers in Colquitt and Grady counties, fly in the face of a recommendation last year by a governor's mental health panel.