Irwin County News

A search warrant led to the arrest of three people on drug charges Monday. The South Georgia Drug Task Force assisted the Cook County Sheriff's Office in serving a search warrant at a residence on Brushy Creek Drive in Sparks, according to a press release from the task force.

I have to admit it. I never met a sweet potato I didn't like. Cut into wedges and roasted with rosemary and salt, baked and sprinkled with brown sugar and pecans, turned into a souffle and stuffed into an orange shell, served in a pie or baked into poundcake, a sweet potato is always delicious.

Although Douglas County voters approved a 1-cent special purpose local option sales tax Tuesday to build a new jail, it will be from two to three years before inmates are moved to the completed facility.

Police said when he came up to a dead-end at North McKinley St., he failed to stop, and kept on driving through a neighborhood.

A 50-year-old Irwin County man died Tuesday of complications of H1N1 , making his the first death in the 10-county health district to attributed to swine flu.

An Irwin County man has died as a result of the H1N1 virus. That's the 32nd death in Georgia, and a fifth have been in southwest Georgia.

An Irwin County man died Tuesday of complications of H1N1 influenza - also called swine flu - at a Tifton hospital.

The ABAC Arts Connection makes cultural events available, accessible and affordable.

This year's South Georgia Arts Alliance's Arts and Entertainment Series, "Celebrate the Magic," will offer six major entertainment events plus five additional concerts with a wide variety of performances at value prices right here in South Georgia.

The need for a new jail is not going away and is only going to get worse, Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller told a Board of Commissioners work session Monday.

The Clarke County Sheriff's Office is paying more than $1,000 a day extra to house inmates at a South Georgia jail rather than in neighboring Oconee County.

The Douglas County Board of Commissioners has set a Tuesday, July 28, meeting with the countya s three cities, the next required step to get a one-cent special purpose local option sales tax on the Nov.

Authorities in Georgia and Florida said they spent countless manhours investigating claims by a man who identified himself on the Internet as "catchmekiller," falsely claiming 16 murders -- including a south Georgia woman who disappeared almost four years ago.

A Gainesville man who authorities say falsely boasted over the Internet that he killed 16 people, including a missing Ocilla woman, was indicted by a Hall County grand jury this week.

Douglas County Jail hit a record high of 793 inmates Tuesday as concern grows about serious overcrowding at the aging facility and danger to correction personnel.

Ten of the top honor graduates at area high schools, including one valedictorian and two salutatorians, have been selected as ABAC Foundation Scholars and will receive full tuition scholarships when they enroll at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College this fall.

HERITAGE, A THING OF THE PAST? It seems our heritage is becoming a thing of the past as far as the masses are concerned today.

One of the men died. The other is still recovering at the Still Burn Center in Augusta.

Ocilla Police say that 48-year-old Charles Wilber Behren was stabbed multiple times.

Reed Bingham State Park on the Colquitt-Cook county line is making its way through tough economic times - as detailed in a story two weeks ago - but two other South Georgia facilities are facing more severe changes as the Department of Natural Resources struggles with a nearly 39 percent reduction in state appropriations and 24 percent projected ...