Updated: 1:50 AM The amount of peanuts that have been planted and harvested in Georgia is double what it was last year. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates explains why... and looks at the next big money maker crop in the state.
Posted: 10:45 PM The fifth mosquito this summer has tested positive for West Nile Virus in our area. Some public health officials believe this could mean an increase in the disease in Lowndes County.
Updated: 6:41 PM Local firefighters take a dip in the pool to prepare for water rescue situations.
Posted: 1:34 AM For the fifth time this summer a mosquito has tested positive for West Nile Virus in Lowndes County.
Updated: 8:18 AM Reports of illegal tattoos and piercings have Lowndes County parents and officials concerned.
Posted: 12:47 AM A young Atlanta-area woman who lost parts of four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria is preparing to go home in a few weeks. Today, 24-year-old Aimee Copeland met with an interior designer. Pulte Homes is donating the construction addition.
Updated: 11:31 PM Dr. Ronald Zaccari is putting up a half-ton stainless steel piece of art he made himself.
Updated: 11:31 PM See what Dr. Bill McKinney says is his vision for VSU.
Posted: 4:32 PM Moody Air Force Base is issuing an official notice to area residents of surrounding counties. F/A-18s from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C. will be using Moody’s Grand Bay Bombing and Gunnery Range and military training airspace to maintain combat readiness this Monday (7/16), Tuesday (7/17) and Thursday (7/19) evenings.
Posted: 5:38 PM A conference on school safety is set to be held at the University of Georgia's Tifton Campus.
Posted: 4:39 PM While the rest of state government eliminated 10,000 jobs during the Great Recession, the University System of Georgia added more than 5,000 employees.
Posted: 8:28 AM Investigators are asking the public's help solving the slaying of an Athens banker whose body was found at the bottom of a well.
Updated: 7:58 AM Three young men have been sentenced to five years in prison for the videotaped beating of a gay man on an Atlanta street corner that was captured in a widely viewed video.
Updated: 10:29 PM A local jail has seen a significant spike in its inmate population over the past few months. Officials say the economy could be to blame.
Updated: 10:03 AM A woman says a man claiming to be with a TV show sucked her toe inside an east Georgia Walmart after claiming everything she purchased that day would be free if she complied with the unusual request.
Posted: 9:56 PM City leaders are asking for $74 million dollars. That sounds like a lot of money, but it is only enough to give each department about half of what they are asking for.
Updated: 2:11 AM Millions of dogs are killed every year in this country. Tallahassee and Valdosta are no strangers when it comes to the death of these animals. Eyewitness News reporter Eames Yates faced the problem head on and tells us what we can do to stop it.
Updated: 11:54 PM There are more than 20,000 children currently living in foster care in Florida. A new initiative is hoping to find those children loving foster homes.
Updated: 8:33 PM A new report shows one area college is contributing millions to the local economy.
Updated: 6:22 PM Southwest Georgia Technical College celebrates the reaffirmation of their accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Commission on Colleges.
Updated: 11:57 PM There’s still time to vote in the City of Valdosta 2012 People’s Choice Photo Contest. Citizens have until July 18 to vote on the entries displayed in the Tillman Gallery at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts.
Updated: 9:58 AM A local store has been broken into for the tenth time this year.
