Valdosta, GA – Saturday May 25th, 2013 marks the first annual Valdosta Blues Festival! Presented by Old Dog’s Records, Inc, this music festival will showcase Blues, R&B, Inspirational, and Rock music at the Lowndes County Civic Center. Eight bands will perform live at the Valdosta Blue’s Festival: Jeff Todd Band, Wailin’ Wolves Band, Too North, [...]
Hamilton County, FL- A Valdosta man has died following a one-car accident on US-41 late Friday night. A report from the Florida Highway Patrol states 32-year old Miller Grow was driving southbound on US-41 when he clipped a mailbox with his 1988 Ford truck. That small incident caused Grow to overcorrect, sending him across both lanes, [...]
A pair of inmates have been charged after police say the pair phoned in a bomb threat to South Georgia Medical Center on May 14th. 23-year-old Kareem Foster and 19-year old Asa Balloon are now charged with making terroristic threats after allegedly calling in the threat last week. Investigators were able to trace the phone call [...]
A resident of Highway 129 North called in a complaint to sheriff’s deputies Friday after smelling marijuana coming from his neighbor’s property. A quick search of the home revealed this went far beyond someone puffing on a joint. Deputies obtained a warrant for the home, where they found more than 83 pounds of the drug, [...]
Valdosta, GA- Motorists in the Southeast will see little change, if any, in pump prices this week. State averages for a gallon of regular retail gasoline moved less than a penny in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. The cost for a barrel of oil remained stable last week, as well, and closed at $96.02 on the New [...]
Hamilton County, FL- A Valdosta man has died following a one-car accident on US-41 late Friday night. A report from the Florida Highway Patrol states 32-year old Miller Grow was driving southbound on US-41 when he clipped a mailbox with his 1988 Ford truck. That small incident caused Grow to overcorrect, sending him across both lanes, [...]
A pair of inmates have been charged after police say the pair phoned in a bomb threat to South Georgia Medical Center on May 14th. 23-year-old Kareem Foster and 19-year old Asa Balloon are now charged with making terroristic threats after allegedly calling in the threat last week. Investigators were able to trace the phone call [...]
Police in Tifton are continuing to ask the public for help in finding 27-year old Crystal Hendrix. The woman has been missing since March 8th, when she was last seen at her home in Tift County. The mother of two was 8 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. The Tift County Sheriff’s Office [...]
Valdosta, GA- Motorists in the Southeast will see little change, if any, in pump prices this week. State averages for a gallon of regular retail gasoline moved less than a penny in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. The cost for a barrel of oil remained stable last week, as well, and closed at $96.02 on the New [...]
Valdosta, GA – Saturday May 25th, 2013 marks the first annual Valdosta Blues Festival! Presented by Old Dog’s Records, Inc, this music festival will showcase Blues, R&B, Inspirational, and Rock music at the Lowndes County Civic Center. Eight bands will perform live at the Valdosta Blue’s Festival: Jeff Todd Band, Wailin’ Wolves Band, Too North, [...]
Despite a warm, sunny weekend, it was a smaller-than-normal crowd for the 26th annual Morven Peach Festival. Around 3,500 people attended the Saturday event, down nearly 25 percent from crowds in past years. Less than 90 percent of the vendor spaces were filled as well. The one-day festival marks the largest fundraiser of the calendar [...]
Valdosta, GA- VSU’s softball team has taken one step closer to repeating as Division II Champions, as they dispatched of GSC rival Alabama-Huntsville in three games on Saturday. After VSU knocked off UAH 5-3 on Friday afternoon, Huntsville came back to take game two by a 5-4 margin. The third and deciding game, however, proved to [...]
Tampa, FL- A somewhat surprising run through the Gulf South tournament and into the NCAAs ended in rather short order for Valdosta State’s baseball team in Tampa. After falling to Delta State on Thursday, VSU stayed alive in the double-elimination tournament by defeating Stillman 6-2 Friday morning. That set up a rematch with DSU in a [...]
Atlanta, GA- Former Secretary of State Karen Handel has announced her run for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Saxby Chambliss leaving the upper chamber after this current term. In a press release Friday, Handel says she is running “because we need less Washington in Washington.” She cites ‘out of control’ spending in Washington [...]
Lake City, FL- Three burglars wanted in Knoxville, Tennessee nearly escaped into central Florida scot free…except for making the mistake of cutting off an FHP trooper on I-75 near Lake City. 29-year old Heath Sanchez was driving a 2013 Chrysler southbound on I-75 when troopers attempted to pull the vehicle over just south of SR-47. Sanchez [...]
Valdosta, Ga- Lowndes County Fire Rescue and deputies responded to Lowndes Middle School for a fire in a bathroom on Wednesday afternoon. The fire was contained to a trash can in a boy’s bathroom and was quickly extinguished by firefighters. An eleven year old student, whose name will not be released, was identified and interviewed. [...]
