Smithville News

A car chase that started in the community of Leslie last Tuesday and ended up in the depths of Sumter County in front of a residence, 376 Wiggins Road, involving not only the Leslie City Police, Lee County Sheriff's K-9 unit and Smithville City Police, but deputies from the Sumter County Sheriff's Office, is still the talk of the community.

Early Tuesday morning, Leslie Police Officer Cecil R. Mathews II was on patrol in the city around West Allen Street, when he noticed two vehicles, a semi-truck and trailer and a blue 1999 Chevrolet Blazer S-10 traveling west around the Howell Street area.

Special agents and the Sumter County Sheriff's Department arrested three people for attempting to sale marijuana across guard lines to inmates at the Sumter County Correctional Institution.

An Americus prison guard has been arrested for taking contraband inside Sumter County Correctional Institute.

As reported in Wednesday's edition of the Times-Recorder, an employee of Sumter County was arrested by special agents from the local Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Region III Americus office, and transported by the Sumter County Sheriff's Office to the Sumter County Law Enforcement Center.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a prison guard has been accused of carrying unspecified contraband into Sumter County Correctional Institution.

The Lee County Commission took steps to improve traffic woes in the county at its monthly business session Tuesday night, voting to move forward with plans to resurface some roads and to approve a plan to redirect traffic around the downtown courthouse square.

Around noon Tuesday, a two-vehicle accident occurred at the intersection of Ga. Highways 377 and 118, ending in tragedy.

After the fireworks in my previous essay of the Methodist schism in the local black community of the post-Civil War era, I realized I had left out the bridge from that event to Campbell Chapel A.M.E.'s long and ...

A boil water order is still in effect in Smithville tonight. A 6 inch water main broke yesterday, sending water gushing down Wells Street, and emptying the city's water tank.

Halfway through the Christmas weekend travel period nine people have died in traffic crashes in Georgia including a man killed in a Christmas night wreck in Southwest Georgia.

Nearly one year has passed since family members found Arthur James Mosely, 82, stabbed to death in his rural Lee County home.

Troopers say it was a medical condition that caused an Albany man to hit a Lee County deputy's patrol car and another vehicle in an afternoon wreck.

Drivers will get a new view of Smithville Tuesday as a newly finished section of a revamped U.S. 19 is opened to traffic, state officials say.