Ware County News

Five men were arrested and police seized more than 140 high-potency marijuana plants in a raid on a south Georgia house.

A raid on a Ware County home has led to the seizure of more than 140 marijuana plants and the arrest of five Cuban nationals.

Mitchell Maxwell is planing the funeral for his 11-year-old son. Police say the boy, known as DJ, was shot and killed by a friend playing with a pellet gun last Friday.

The family of an 11 year-old boy is grieving tonight after he was shot and killed by a pellet gun over the weekend.

An 11-year-old Waycross boy died after being shot in the chest with a pellet gun while with a group of friends Friday night, authorities said.

District school officials in Ware County, Ga., said a popular magnet school will have to close its doors because of a lack of money.

A tight economy is putting the future of a southeast Georgia magnet school in question.

Jack Webb's career at Effingham County High School ended with a victory. Webb submitted his resignation as ECHS head football coach on Monday morning, bringing his five years on the Rebels sidelines to an end.

About 100 Ware Magnet School students broke down in sobs tonight as the Ware County school board voted to close the school in May at the end of its 17th year.

Financial problems have a local school facing possible closure. At 7 p.m. tonight, there will be a brainstorming session at the Ware County Board of Education on Bailey Street in Waycross.

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Ware County's Humane Society created a new board in January to replace one that was no longer active.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