Updated: 3:07 PM Dozens of residents came out on Friday afternoon to witness the newly elected Judge of the State Court of Thomas County be sworn into office.
Updated: 3:32 AM With Labor Day weekend right around the corner authorities are stressing a need for safety on water. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates looks at the deadly dangers of drinking and boating.
Posted: 10:36 PM A man charged in connection with the murder of his estranged wife Sunday Blombergh was sentenced this afternoon.
Updated: 3:48 AM A Salmonella outbreak has reached Lowndes County and infected a little girl. The virus is believed to have come from fruit from a Midwestern farm.
Updated: 2:28 AM More than 200 people in nine states have been diagnosed with Swine Flu this year, but it is not the H1N1 strain that caused a deadly pandemic in 2009. This is a new strain of swine flu called H3N2. So far, there have not been any cases reported in Florida or Georgia, but officials say it is a threat to anyone in contact with pigs.
Posted: 1:07 PM The Georgia Department of Public Health, along with numerous state, local and federal public health partners are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections. One Lowndes County resident has been identified of being infected in this outbreak.
Updated: 1:04 AM Elections officials say it was a fairly slow and steady evening at the polls Tuesday.
Posted: 6:34 PM Decatur County election officials say it was a rather slow day at the polls for the Georgia runoff elections.
Updated: 9:31 PM A Thomasville man has been released from the hospital after being stabbed in the abdomen over the weekend.
Updated: 1:13 AM There are some fresh faces on one local campus. Seventeen students have made their way to all the way from China to study abroad at Thomas University.
Posted: 2:09 PM A former Georgia police officer who once kept the peace in Athens is now in charge of making sure things run smoothly in an Afghanistan community.
Posted: 10:22 AM A new study on the generosity of Americans suggests that states with the least religious residents are also the stingiest about giving money to charity.
Updated: 6:32 PM A new report by AAA shows a spike in gas prices in Georgia. How the jump at the pump is effecting summer travel plans for drivers.
Posted: 1:04 PM A search has resumed for a 44-year-old boater who dove into Lake Lanier but never resurfaced.
Updated: 11:36 PM Many Georgia children suffer childhood obesity but some organizations are working to nip it in the bud early.
Updated: 7:03 PM An inmate at the Grady County Jail has killed himself.
Updated: 4:57 PM Julian Reever, recently escaped from Thomas County Prison has been apprehended and is now back in custody. He was caught at around 11:15 tonight , a quarter of a mile inside Grady County.
Updated: 4:57 PM At approximately 1 a.m. on Aug. 16, 2012, the pumps in the Influent Pump Station of the Withlacoochee Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) stopped working. An emergency bypass pump system was placed into service at 12:45 a.m., on Aug. 17; and as a result, the sewer spills are no longer occurring.
Posted: 3:29 PM On August 17, 2012 at approximately 2:00pm, the Valdosta Police Department responded to the Pay Less Shoe Source, 3268 Inner Perimeter Road, in reference to the report of an armed robbery.
Updated: 4:27 PM Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a Morven Road residence, near Hahira, regarding a person who was inside his home and threatening to commit suicide.
Posted: 12:58 PM Investigators from the Special Operations Division of the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office went 6331 Dove Drive, in south Lowndes County, to serve a probation warrant for the arrest of Michael Terry.
Updated: 1:23 PM According to Sheriff Chris Prine with the Lowndes county Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to an address on Kelly Way by a caller who had found their neighbor deceased in the home's swimming pool.
Posted: 2:33 AM Georgia's unemployment rate is now a full percentage point higher than the national average.
