Jones County News

Lauren Hawthorne as the Dew Drop Fairy, Linzi London as Clara, Thomas Pangia as the Prince, Emily Wyche as The Snow Queen and Jessica Gore as the Sugar Plum Fairy, prepare for a run through of portions of their performance as cast members of The Nutcracker.

Adam Tolbert has been hearing the same three words his entire life. Can't never could.

Many in Macon celebrated in 2007 as voters overwhelmingly elected Robert Reichert as mayor, embracing his sweeping political agenda.

A Jones County man received four years probation in Jones County Superior Court last week for his participation in a drive-by shooting in Gray this past summer.

The rezoning of Jones Countya s first industrial park was finalized Tuesday night with a unanimous affirmative vote by county commissioners at the meeting.

The pink face with glasses in the center of this picture belongs to Bobby Daniels.

As expected, river levels are up across middle Georgia thanks to the widespread rainfall totals of at least 2 inches for much of the region.

A pedestrian was killed Monday night in a car crash on Gray Highway in front of Greenwood Baptist Church about five miles east of Macon, according to the Jones County Sheriff's Office.

One of the three adults charged in a drive-by shooting in Gray this summer pled guilty in Jones County Superior Court last week and received five years to serve in prison.

Overall entry numbers were down slightly from previous years, but average quality scores were high at last week's Southeast Hay Contest, held in conjunction with the Sunbelt Agricultural Expo in Moultrie, GA.

Jones County deputies are still searching for two men who allegedly kidnapped and burned a 52-year-old Macon woman Saturday.

The Jones County sheriffs office says they're looking for two men in their early twenties who carjacked a woman in Macon.

It's the week of fairs in Middle Georgia, and while most of the hubbub may focus on Perry's Georgia National Fair, Gray is hosting its own annual Jones County Lions Club Fair next week.

Three people have been arrested in connection with a Wednesday drug bust in the Fort Hill neighborhood, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

For the first time in 12 years, Jason Briley's name won't be on the ballot for mayor in the city of Gray.

Pat Beall was just sitting down to breakfast at his Fulton Hills home at about 6:45 a.m. Friday when he heard the sound of multiple gunshots and screeching tires.

John Stephen Spires and Angel Lynn Barrett had only lived in their mobile home a few months before he died from a single gunshot Tuesday night.

Louella Solomon didn't expect to be working into her 70s. A decade ago after she retired from a career as a nursing assistant in Detroit, she figured her days of earning paychecks were done.

The woman who committed suicide as Jones County deputies were about to arrest her last month was accused of embezzling more than $354,000 from the Brosnan Yard Credit Union, according to a Macon police report.

Jack Skinner spends his time creating masterpieces of stone, but putting together the sign that will usher in new business to his community might be some of his finest work yet.