MOULTRIE, Ga. — Turning Point recently honored Joyce Thornton as the 2019 Employee of the Year. 

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Abigail Kirkland of C.A. Gray Junior High School was crowned champion of the 2020 Colquitt County Schools District Spelling Bee on Friday.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — On Monday, Bobby Ellerson was transferred to the Colquitt County Jail on arrest warrants obtained by GBI agents on Jan. 3, 2020, charging Ellerson in the murder and aggravated assault of Otis Lamar Anderson.  

MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Moultrie Police Department is requesting assistance in identifying a suspect involved in a burglary that occurred at China Café in Moultrie on Jan. 11. 

ADEL — Three people were indicted Monday by a Cook County grand jury in a 2018 shooting in Lenox.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Moultrie-Colquitt County Parks and Recreation Authority announced its new director midday Tuesday.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — There will be a series of events prepared for the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend in the city of Moultrie, from Jan. 18 to Jan. 20.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Children’s Cheer and Toy Shop served 1,828 children with new and used toys in 2019. During the first workday of the year, staff began looking at its needs for the upcoming year. 

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man was charged Monday in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in 2018.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Moultrie-Colquitt County Chamber of Commerce will hold the 110th Annual Chamber of Commerce Meeting and Community Awards Presentation on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council Event Center. 

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Members of the Moultrie Service League met recently at the Colquitt County Arts Center and painted bowls for the Empty Bowls fundraiser.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Members of the John Benning chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, are participating in a national public awareness push for the American public to wear red on Fridays to support deployed troops.

ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and the Senate Majority Caucus both told the press Monday gambling is not on their priority list this year.

ATLANTA — On the first day of the 2020 legislative session, House Speaker David Ralston honored former Rep. Jay Powell.

HOUSTON (AP) — Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Aiming to answer the question “How do you recognize gang involvement?” Moultrie Police Department Sgt. Choice Barnes is inviting everyone to a class that’ll answer just that.

NORMAN PARK, Ga. — Norman Park students recently learned about animals from officials of Chehaw Animal Park in Albany. During the visit the students were able to pet hedgehogs, snakes and alligators.

THOMASVILLE, Ga. — Hundreds of jobs will be added to the local economy with the new Walmart meat-processing plant and partnership with FPL, an existing business.

FUNSTON, Ga. — During Funston Elementary’s December White Christmas program, two names were drawn from all students who had not missed a day of school during the first two quarters.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Angie Kling, Children’s Cheer and Toy Shop director led the Onpoint Riders of Moultrie, a motorcycle club, to three homes across Colquitt County to spread cheer on Christmas Eve. As a part of their philosophy, they’re always looking to help out the community in any way possible. Christmas was no exception.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — It was out with the old and in with the new as the city adjourned its 2019 staff and reformed into its 2020 incarnation — most notably welcoming Cole Posey into his District 2 Post 3 seat. 

MOULTRIE, Ga. — I ask myself all the time what it’s like to be a hero. The thought has fascinated me ever since I saw Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” in 2002. Now, I’m not going to say the superheroes in comic books will never exist in our world — words have power after all — but hero has a different connotation in our world. It could be someone who fights for their country, someone who stands up to a bully or someone who puts their life on the line for the sake of others.

HARTSFIELD, Ga. — As a dozen kids compete to see who bakes the best dessert, a pair of proud grandparents are glued to their TV set in Hartsfield.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A man involved in a two-vehicle wreck was charged Monday with trafficking methamphetamine.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Bishop Gladis Hall, center, of First Moultrie Holiness Deliverance Church, poses with Moultrie Mayor William McIntosh, left, and Moultrie City Councilwoman Wilma Hadley, right, during the church’s 2019 Christmas Give-Away Dec. 21.

TIFTON, Ga. — A man charged with killing a Georgia teacher who vanished in 2005 has lost another appeal requesting state funding for expert witnesses.