Valdosta Announces Special Trash Pickup Policy

VALDOSTA -- There’s more to garbage collection than meets the eye. Each week the city’s Public Works Department serves over 18,000 customers with sanitation services. These services include household garbage, recyclables and yard waste—each picked up…

Shots Fired at Valdosta Apartment

VALDOSTA -- An argument resulted in shots being fired at a Valdosta apartment Monday night. Valdosta Police report that an argument broke out between several people who knew each other, outside an apartment at 807 S.…

Arrests Made in Doublegate Vandalism Case

ALBANY -- Police arrested two suspects they say are responsible for destroying green surfaces at an Albany country club. Joseph Behrend, 21, and William Harpole, 17, have been charged with one count of criminal damage to…

VSU Hosts Computing Adventures

VALDOSTA -- Valdosta State University’s Department of Mathematics and Computer Science hosted its sixth annual Computing Adventures @ VSU June 22-26. Seventeen rising fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders attended the weeklong camp designed to introduce…

Guilty Verdict in Lee County Murder Trial

ALBANY -- Jurors issued a guilty verdict in the retrial of a man charged with stabbing and killing an elderly man during a robbery. Timothy French was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder, and armed…