Peach County News

Peach County is making plans to fix its animal control problem. County leaders and leaders from the city of Byron visited the Hawkinsville Shelter in Pulaski County to get ideas on building a county-wide shelter.

Macon residents who need a garbage cart should be able to get one soon. The City Council is expected to approve the purchase of 3,600 new ones today.

Last year's Department of Education's Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP report showed 100 percent of Houston County schools met AYP, Bibb county schools about 63 percent and Peach and Pulaski hit 50 percent or below.

Peach County High School had a nearly one percentage point decrease in the number of dropouts in a three-year period, according to data from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement.

Fort Valley has history. And a ton of it. Open since 1870, Avera Drug Store is one of the oldest drug stores in Georgia.

In Fort Valley, voters are choosing the city's next mayor. Incumbent John Stumbo is seeking a fourth term in office while Randy King wants a shot at the city's top spot.

About a dozen residents sitting in Byron's City Council chambers Friday afternoon fired off a barrage of questions to city officials about the proposed millage rate increase.

Hoping to spark voter turnout, the Committee to Invest in Bibb County's Future asked school parents to go door-to-door asking residents to hit the polls Tuesday for a sales tax vote.

The five people who sat in the audience at Friday evening's public hearing to discuss Byron's millage rate increase didn't all live in Byron, Talks of annexing land into the city brought Gene and Jolene Smith to the meeting.

In an emergency, every second counts, and for some in Peach County, emergency crews could soon be on the scene minutes quicker.

A group of eight Middle Georgia high school students are among 53 students selected by State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox from across Georgia to serve on the Student Advisory Council.

A Valdosta woman was returned to her family after Bibb County sheriff's deputies put down spike sticks and conducted a rolling roadblock in order to get her to pull over, authorities said.

A Houston County sheriff's deputy has been suspended indefinitely without pay pending the resolution of a sexual battery charge against him, the sheriff said.

A late night Peach County police chase ends on Interstate 75 in Bibb County. Captain Chris Hodges of the Byron Police Department tells FOX 24 News, officers stopped, 43-year old Sophia Brantley of Valdosta, using spike strips and a road block at the Interstate 75/16 interchange.

A suspect led police on a chase from Peach County to Bibb County. According to Sean Defoe with the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, the person was stopped on I-75 in Bibb County, arrested and taken back to Peach County.

A man walked away from the accident after his tractor was hit by a train going about 50 mph.

The Baldwin County Health Department ran out of swine flu vaccines this morning.

A health-club employee today told a magistrate judge that she was assaulted last month by a Houston County corporal.

A Marshallville woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 341 near Norwood Springs Road in Peach County on Wednesday.

A two-vehicle crash this morning claimed the life of one motorist and closed Ga.