Twiggs County News

As youth career facilitator for the Middle Georgia Work Investment Board, McIntosh watches children as young as 14 learn how to get and keep jobs.

The Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cub Scouts, Pack 962, attended Cub Scout Day Camp at the Laurens Baptist Association in Dublin Georgia from June 12th through June 15th.

Residents and friends of a local Twiggs County family took part in a fundraiser over the weekend to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.

SCEI-1BLOOD cult member and local Macon resident, Andres Rivera-Fuentes has been arrested and charged with aggravated child molestation according to public sources.

In Macon news today, a Twiggs County man, Andres Rivera-Fuentes faces allegations of aggravated child molestation after allegedly having oral sex with a minor in his church and for a number of intercepted text messages asking for number ratings on his performance as well as making request's such as having the minor masturbate for him in the shower.

Residents in Dry Branch are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ruling defending around 50 homeowners against a Colorado man suing them for their homes.

Twiggs County resident Cecil Fountain Jr. said a big landfill company sued him to make him shut up.

GRANT BLANKENSHIP/THE TELEGRAPH Macon, GA 06/02/13 From left, Matthew Waller, professional reptile trapper Jason Clark and homeowner Joseph Head put a measuring tape on the alligator trapped from underneath the deck of the vacant home adjacent to Head's on Bloomfield Road.

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled to uphold the decision supporting Twiggs County landowners in their land dispute with a Colorado man.

Twiggs County Sheriff Darren Mitchum has fired two guards who were on duty when an inmate escaped the county jail through a hole he's accused of making in a shower wall.

State Rep. Tyrone Brooks says he's being targeted by federal investigators because of his efforts to investigate and draw attention to an unsolved lynching.

An escaped Twiggs County inmate who was recaptured Tuesday faces additional charges of escape, damage to government property and entering auto.

Law officers in central Georgia were searching for an inmate they say escaped from the Twiggs County law enforcement center by creating a hole in the shower.

The Twiggs County Sheriff's Office says an escaped prisoner was spotted by residents off Highway 129 near Sgoda Road in Twiggs County around 8 p.m. Monday evening.

Tony Havis Criswell, 45, was awaiting trial on charges of stalking, terroristic threats, criminal trespass, loitering and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a news release from the Twiggs County Sheriff’s Office.

With an approximate $19 million projected deficit in the fiscal 2014 budget, commissioners are in the process of holding hearings to see which line items can be taken out.

Twiggs County had the lowest graduation rate of any system in the state, just over 45 percent, while 6 out of 7 Hancock County students graduated -- 86.5 percent.