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Crescent Elementary student reported with knife on school bus.
CRESCENT ELEMENTARY On Friday April 14th, there was a report of a student at crescent having a knife on a school bus. The School notified parents of the incident in a notification to all parents of...
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Barnesville man plead guilty to one count of first degree vehicular homicide...
A Barnesville man who was allegedly driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs when his speeding truck went off Morgan Dairy Rd. in 2015 and killed 21-year-old Kara Holland entered a guilty...
View ArticleCity Offering Help In Blighted Home Demolition
The City of Griffin is soon starting registration for DEMO Days, in an effort to improve its community and neighborhoods by removing blighted property. The city will provide free dumpsters and...
View ArticleC.H.A.M.P.S Program Teaches Students Heading to DC
Forty more students are expected to attend the Spalding County Jr Deputy trip to Washington DC this year, as compared to last year, bringing the total to 315 6th graders and 40 chaperones. The eight...
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Deputies Begin To Wear Body Cameras
Beginning April 17, 2017 Deputies of the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office will begin wearing body worn cameras as a part of their issued duty gear. The cameras were ordered in early February arrived...
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Florida Plane Crash Claims Lives of Four From Williamson
Four individuals from Williamson died as the result of a plane crash on Sunday in Williston, FL. Husband and wife, Nate and Laura Enders, along with two of their children were flying in a 1948 Cessna...
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A Spalding County resident was shot to death on Monday night.
Sheriff Darrell Dix reports that on April 17, 2017, at 7:40 p.m., deputies responded to 508 Terry Drive to a report of a shooting. Upon their arrival they discovered a female victim inside the...
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Monday morning fire destroys 100 to 150 acres near Hollonville.
In the early morning hours of Monday unit of the Georgia Forestry Service was called to 1932 Hollonville road to a large woods fire. Initial reports indicated there was about 100 to 150 acres involved...
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Lamar County and Barnesville PD conduct Drug raids
Local law enforcement officers in Barnesville and Lamar County have made several arrests following arrest warrants on a dozen alleged local drug dealers. Arrests were made on Suddeth Road,...
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Drunken driver Brian Thompson age 25 sentenced in vehicular homicide case in...
(Brian Thomas Thompson (center, green shirt) listens as Julie Holland gives her victim’s impact statement in court Tuesday alongside her husband, Frankie.) (Photo: Walter Geiger) In Lamar County...
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SPALDING COUNTY PARKS, PUBLIC GROUNDS & LEISURE SERVICES PRESENTS FREE YOUTH...
If you are between the ages of 5-12 and love the game of football this is event is for you! This camp style event is for girls and boys of all experience levels and will feature football...
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SPALDING COUNTY SENIOR CENTERS INVITE OUR SENIOR CITIZENS TO “COME GROW WITH...
The Spalding County Senior Center is excited to announce Come Grow With Us, the innovative, raised bed gardening project for senior citizens ages 50 and over is a proven success! Cool season crops...
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Celebration of Life for the Enders
The Candler Field Museum will host a Celebration of Life for the Enders family – Nate, Laura, Jaden, and Eli – this Saturday at 4pm. The four were involved in a tragic plane crash in Williston,...
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Griffin City Commission Meets
At the April 25th City Commissioners meeting: The commissioners: Recognized: the graduates of the 2017 Citizens Police Academy. The 2017 CPA covered eight sessions to provide citizens with basic...
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Rash of Burglaries in Sunnyside
The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office is asking for your assistance regarding a series of commercial burglaries that began before January 1, 2017 on Georgia Highway 19/41 in the Sunnyside area. The...
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Sheiffs Departmetn arrests two indiviudals on Drug Charges
Sheriff Darrell Dix has advised WKEU that on April 29, 2017, agents with the Special Operations Division traveled to 642 Melrose Avenue to serve an arrest warrant on Mary Michelle Farmer for Violation...
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Lamar County Sheriff Department reports missing person.
The Lamar County Sheriffs Department and Monroe County Sheriff’s Office have issued press releases that a missing female is missing from Lamar county, LORI WILLIAMS, Height –...
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Two vehicle accident injures one driver at the North Expressway and McIntosh...
About 9:15 Sunday Night units of the Griffin Police Department, and Spalding Regional EMS, responded to the North Expressway and West McIntosh Road. 911 Dispatch advised responding...
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Pike County has reported the first female station officer appointed by chief...
The first Pike County Fire Department female station officer was recently appointed by Chief Rick O’Barr. Danielle Kelly was named Acting Lieutenant at the Concord Road Station in Hollonville,...
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Sheriff To Ramp Up Investigations Into Missing Teen
Investigators with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Department are ramping up efforts in locating a teenager missing since last May. Sheriff Darrell Dix has advised that upon returning home from the...
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