VALDOSTA - A Wiregrass Georgia Technical College graduate is now mentoring a culinary student through a new apprenticeship. Release: Wiregrass Georgia Technical College is proud to announce a new apprenticeship partnership with Wildflower Café in…
Moody Air Force Base > 81st Fighter Squadron…
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE -- The US Air Force has reactivated the 81st Fighter Squadron, a unit in the 14th Flying Training Wing, based at Moody AFB near Valdosta. The unit was reactivated through an…
Homerville > Officer Arrested For Sexual Assault Of…
HOMERVILLE -- On Thursday, Jan. 8, Homerville Police Officer, Santiargo Lopaz King was arrested for sexually assaulting a Clinch County jail inmate. In November 2014, Officer King performed consensual sex with the inmate while transporting the prisoner to…
Fitzgerald > Murderer Traveled 300 Miles To Meet…
Allison Ericson, Valdosta Today News Director: FITZGERALD -- On Tuesday, Jan. 13, Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office investigators began their investigation on 22-year-old, John Asher Farrell-Villarreal. The Sheriff's Office received a call from a woman claiming that…
Wisenbaker > Class Warfare: Entitlements, Bread and Circuses
Gary M. Wisenbaker, Valdosta Today Editorial Director: “Free” college tuition, tax cuts, expanded benefits, tax hikes on corporations and “the rich”. As predicted in this column back in November, “Over the next two years Obama…
Valdosta > Man Arrested For Breaking Into Storage…
VALDOSTA -- On Tuesday, Jan. 13, the Valdosta Police Department arrested Darron Hollis for attempting to open a Villa Valdos Apartment storage unit. Hollis broke a lock off of one of the storage units using…
Tifton > Man Wrecks Car After Passing Out…
TIFTON -- Yesterday, Jan. 13, 25-year-old Zachary Dunn drove into a tree in the Applebee's parking lot, beside the intersection of Hwy. 82 and Hwy. 319. Tifton Police officers said the man was incoherent at the time…
Crisp County > Man Arrested For Trying To…
CRISP CO. -- On Saturday, Jan. 10, 24-year-old Charles Mills was arrested for attempting to open a locked cooler at Lake Blackshear Resort. Employees found the man trying to get into the resort's cooler while…
Rudnik > The Prospect of a Nuclear North…
Nicholas A. Rudnik, Valdosta Today Opinion Contributor: A Nuclear North Korea Means One Thing for Certain: The Human Race Hangs in the Balance In the black-and-white 1951 film adaptation of the science fiction film The…