07/16/11 Warden Billy Howell with the Colquitt County Correctional Instituted has confirmed the second prison escapee has been captured. Prison officials and law enforcement officers caught 29-year old Bobby Lee Gunter around 8:30 Sunday morning. They found him on Old Adel road in Moultrie.
07/15/11 A woman accused of reporting her pickup truck had been carjacked after wrecking the vehicle and a suspect in an attempted robbery at a Moultrie restaurant in September 2010 are among those recently indicted by a Colquitt County grand jury.
07/09/11 Winners of the Agricultural Sales Placement Proficiency were recognized at the 83rd State FFA Convention held at the Macon Centreplex on April 28-30.
07/09/11 A Colquitt County High School senior was honored with two prestigious awards at the 83rd State FFA Convention, according to information released this week by the Colquitt County School System.
07/08/11 Fourteen people are accused of illegal gambling following raids on a half dozen businesses in two south Georgia Counties.
07/07/11 For Martha Gardner Jan. 9 of each year is a significant date on the calendar, but not because it is her birthday.
07/07/11 Tift County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday night in a workshop session to discuss items that will be decided on during their next regular meeting on Monday at 6 p.m.
07/07/11 The Colquitt County 8-and-under girls all-stars opened GRPA state tournament play in Carrollton on Thursday with a lopsided victory over the host team, but then were sent to the losers bracket by a big and hard-hitting Vidalia team.
06/29/11 Joleen Johnson, left, and Erika Garza work on signs for a Saturday march and rally at the Georgia Capitol. Alan Mauldin
06/28/11 United Way of Colquitt County has announced the 2012 results of its Community Investment Funding review process. On June 16, the United Way Board of Directors approved $304,800 to be invested in health and human services programs.
06/22/11 Candi Allegood is in the Colquitt County jail, charged with one court of theft by taking, accused of stealing $50,000 when she was the credit union manager.
06/21/11 The new location of Georgia State Patrol Post 10 was completed February and is now fully operational. Post 10 patrols Sumter Terrell, Marion, Schley and Webster counties.
06/20/11 Officials say the body of a 6-year-old girl was discovered in a farm pond near Moye Road around 7:00.
06/19/11 Times have been especially hard for black farmers like Willie Adams, a Greensboro, Ga., farmer who has struggled for years to raise organic poultry, produce and vegetables on his Sun and Rain farm.
06/17/11 Not only are well water levels low, ponds farmers use for irrigation are drying up too.The corn at Parker Farms in Colquitt County that's not irrigated doesn't look good.
06/15/11 Concord, NC star hit 100-yard kickoff, averaged 56 yards per punt at Southern Showcase last month
06/14/11 Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal suggested Tuesday that people on probation could replace field workers who farmers claim have been scared away by a crackdown on illegal immigration.
06/14/11 Tonight, from 6:30 to 7:30, the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library will be hosting a special program, Pint-Size Polkas, presented by Mike Schneider of Milwaukee, Wis. All ages are encouraged to attend and hear the accordion and learn this folk dance from Europe.
06/14/11 Governor Nathan Deal announced Tuesday a proposal to help farmers who can't find enough field workers because of the state's new immigration law. He thinks unemployed state probationers could pick up the slack. Will the plan work?
06/13/11 Sunday night just before midnight three Colquitt County Sheriff's Deputies were involved in a wreck. It happened on Mitchell Suber Road, when they were responding to a domestic violence call. |