Ware County News

Waycross Middle School has been named a Georgia School of Excellence in Student Achievement, state school Superintendant Kathy Cox said.

CHRIS VIOLA/The Times-UnionGordon Rogers was executive director of the Satilla Riverkeeper in September 2008 when he showed how large amounts of Waycross street trash gets washed into the Satilla River.

The Okefenokee Humane Society board wants the Ware County sheriff to investigate former shelter director Lori Hartmann's use of shelter funds.

Ware County's Humane Society created a new board in January to replace one that was no longer active.

Early voting is being held for city elections throughout the state until Oct. 30. But in some instances, it may not be in the municipality where residents would normally cast their votes.

Waycross police searched Tuesday for a third man wanted in the beating of an acquaintance who died in a hospital Monday, six days after he was attacked.

The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered a trial court to consider a motion in the case of a former lawyer who was convicted of murder in the killing of a woman whose body was found on a plane.

A Ware County elementary school teacher suddenly passed away Friday after coming down with flu-like symptoms.

The Georgia Forestry Commission and a power company are replanting 500 acres of hardwood forest near the Okefenokee Swamp that was burned in the wildfires of 2007.

Ware County is named after a U.S. senator who never set foot there. Now, county Commissioner Carlos Nelson says its time to honor someone a little closer to home.

TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union A painter puts a coat of paint on the steel support beams for a walkway at Jane Macon Middle School.

Glynn County police officials say aggressive, impaired or reckless drivers will feel the heat during the holiday weekend.

A Ware County jailer has been charged with allowing a man wanted for violating his state parole for theft to be released on bail when the man impersonated his brother.

A Waycross woman accused of stealing at least $1.25 million from her former employer remained jailed Monday as Sheriffa TMs Office detectives from two counties continue investigating the case.

A Waycross career armed robber has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, and his son will join him behind bars for a decade.

TERESA STEPZINSKI/The Times-Union Theresa Wheeler of Blackshear holds photographs of her daughter, Jennifer Snow.

A convicted sexual predator was captured in Northeast Florida about 24 hours after absconding from Ware County and triggering a two-state manhunt by local, state and federal officers.

Ware County sheriff's deputies and state troopers looking for possible drug activity saw more than they wanted.

By mid-July, a new Ware County animal control officer will answer calls to dogs that bite, strays and neglected animals.

Valdosta Middle School Band Director Gary Bradley and Assistant Band Director Travis Downs knew it was going to be an exciting 2008-2009 school year when they received the invitation last July to perform at the Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic.