Ty Ty News

Dial-A-Prayer is available 24 hours a day at 382-2484. Bible Study TIFTON - Open Door Ministries, 802 Pineview Ave., will have Bible study from 7 to 8 p.m. every Tuesday.

Alex Jacob Aguiler, 26, 5502 N. Alabama Drive, Omega, was charged Saturday with DUI, driving without a license and failure to maintain lane.

A masked man came into the store a little after 10:00pm on Tuesday holding a gun and demanded the cashier give him all the money.

A clerk at a Ty Ty convenience store reported an armed robbery to sheriff's deputies late Tuesday.

Bernice Brown, 59, 126C Chinaberry St., Apt. 3, Omega, was charged Monday with reckless conduct.

Kirsten Underwood can officially say she is an award-winning musical artist. The singer from Ty Ty recently captured the Teen Entertainer of the Year award, as well as the Songwriter of the Year, for her song "72 Chevy," at the recent Georgia Country and Music Awards Association dinner held in Dalton.

Felony theft by conversion charges have been filed against a Tifton truck driver who after picking up a load of chicken from Tyson Foods in Vienna failed to deliver it to its scheduled destination in Rincon.

A man charged in connection with the Aug. 25 shooting of a Ty Ty man was released on a $10,000 bond Oct.

A man was robbed and shot ten times in his own driveway. He's recovering physically but he has huge medical bills and he's worried about his safety.

A Tifton man was shot through the calf of his leg Sunday afternoon when he and another man walked out the front door of a residence.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: Queen Esther McCoy of Moultrie; to Benjamin Adair and Ashley Rebecca Adair of Moultrie; property is located at 317 Camellia Drive for $81,500. Charles H. Bannister of Moultrie; to Earl Baker and Julia Baker of Moultrie; property is located at 700 ...

Antonio Terrell Bentley, 25, 320 Poplar St., was charged Wednesday with failure to register as a sex offender and residence within 1000 feet of a church, school, park, daycare or playground.

Thomas Jarrod Dassie, 19, 3205 Georgia Highway 256, Sylvester, was charged Friday with DUI, failure to maintain lane and underage possession of alcohol.

Voter turnout was light for Tifton, Omega and Ty Ty city council elections Tuesday, but after the count, Tifton had a new city councilman and Ty Ty kept its incumbent mayor.

Today's elections do not have the historic impact of last year's when voters were privileged to cast ballots for the first African-American president or the candidate who might have been the first female vice president.

Michael Danforth, 44, 127 Enigma-Nashville Highway, Enigma, was charged Wednesday with DUI, failure to obey a traffic control device and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

A man reported Friday morning that someone had broken into Gibbs Pecan Company, 4649 U.S. Highway 82 W., Ty Ty, and stolen $4,000 worth of pecans.

My name is Darlene Burrous. I am a resident of Ty Ty and this is my opinion. I also grew up in a different time, a time without fear when we could sit on the porch or in the yard, play outside all day and not even lock our doors.

All property owners in Tifton, Tift County, Omega and Ty Ty are encouraged to attend a Flood Risk Information Open House scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the courtroom on the bottom floor of the Charles A. Kent Administrative Building, 225 N. Tift Ave.

James Murrell Arrington Jr., 44, 107 S. Pickett St., Ty Ty, was charged Monday with DUI, tail/tag lights missing or inoperative and defective/obstructed windshield.