ATLANTA – Georgia has now recorded 14 measles cases in 2026, including eight associated with an ongoing metro Atlanta outbreak. Release: ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed three additional measles…
Morning News Briefs for 2-14-17
Valdosta Mayor John Gayle and Utilities Director Henry Hicks honored Central Maintenance Superintendent Thomas Hess as the February 2017 Employee of the Month. Hess received a framed certificate and a check for $200, and his…
Two men to be sentenced after stealing from…
ALBANY - Two men convicted of stealing from the Second Harvest Food Bank are expected to be sentenced Monday. Anthony Hall, a former Worth County commissioner, and Gregory Jackson, a former food bank employee, were…
Massive Georgia DOT Storm Clean Up Nearing Completion
TIFTON – Albany Area Assistant Maintenance Engineer Jerry Smith knew the black clouds he saw rolling across state Route 133 on Jan. 22 were a bad sign. GDOT asphalt crew clearing U.S. 41 in Turner…
Morning News Briefs for 2-13-17
Dougherty County health officials have released the name of that areas first flu death victim of the year...73 year old Laura Youman went into the hospital Friday with flu complications and later died. She was…
Authorities searching for missing Clinch County man
CLINCH COUNTY, Ga. - Officials are searching for a missing man in South Georgia. Jacobe “Jake” Dewitt Conner, 30, was last seen on February 1 in Clinch County. Conner reportedly disappeared from a work site…
Construction begins at South Georgia Elephant refuge
ATTAPULGUS - Hundreds of large posts are going up around the elephant refuge in Attapulgus. Once they're up -- a handful of elephants can come. https://d2pvyxdw30n8fd.cloudfront.net/WCTV/v589cef8cdd65f/1fb83c4ef11e49d0899287167d3e858b-SD.mp4 "That fencing project should be done in six weeks,"…
Morning News Briefs for 2-10-17
Eric Simmons was found guilty of murder by a Lowndes County jury in the 2015 shooting death of Damaria Hill who was 18 years old at the time of his killing. Simmons was handed a…
Two arrested for nail salon robbery
MOULTRIE - Eyewitness accounts led to the identification and arrest of two suspects charged with the robbery of a Moultrie nail salon. Tawon Jamar Warrren and Kimberly Leona Yon have been arrested in connection with…