Waycross News

During a struggling economy, people are looking for any way they can to save money.

A passenger in a car going the wrong way on U.S. 1 was killed Wednesday night when the car collided head-on with tractor-trailer at the Ware-Charlton County line, state troopers said.

The board of directors for Atlantic Coast Federal Corp. will extend the current stock repurchase program to July 31, 2009.

The state Department of Corrections says it will close diversion centers at Gainesville, Macon and Waycross and convert them to probation offices and day report centers.

Ware County officials and state lawmakers spent hours trying to convince Department of Corrections officials to back off a decision to close Tommy M. Rouse Diversion Center .

Ware County officials and state lawmakers spent hours trying to convince Department of Corrections officials to back off a decision to close Tommy M. Rouse Diversion Center .

One bank in historic downtown has closed and another has sold its downtown branch - which will soon leave only one bank on Centre Street.

A standoff Thursday with an armed man in a Brantley County home involving deputies from three counties, two SWAT teams and the Georgia State Patrol ended with the man taking his own life, investigators said.

A standoff Thursday with an armed man in a Brantley County home involving deputies from three counties, two SWAT teams and the Georgia State Patrol ended with the man taking his own life, investigators said.

The County Commission Chairman race is a tight one in Clinch county. 16 year veteran chairman Wink Strickland came out on top in the primary election.

Jerrell Loran Byrd, 67, of Waycross, died Sunday evening at his residence after a short illness.

This week millions of Georgians went to the polls to exercise their constitutional right to vote for the candidate of their choice.

' A longshoreman working for SSA Cooper was killed Tuesday while helping unload a ship at the Georgia Ports Authority docks.

Parents, teachers and other community members have until July 18 to give their opinions on textbooks and other materials Georgia public schools will use to to teach high school math and elementary and middle ...

Gov. Casey Cagle talked education policy one morning last month with about 30 public school leaders.

Barry Siegel. 384 pages. Harper. $25.95. Sixty years ago, a B-29 bomber on a secret mission fell from the sky in Waycross, Ga.

Deacon Darrell A. Monroe went home to be with the Lord on June 29, 2008, in Bremerton.

I guess I just didn't realize how big a deal Uga, the bulldog, was. I've read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil!" I attended a Big Ten university! I've lived here for a few months now! I should have ...

Valdosta will host a pilot program to stamp out smoking around the state. It's called the Nicotine Replacement Therapy program.

Two of the three Waycross third-grade students charged in a plot to harm their teacher accepted plea deals on Tuesday.