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Missing in Georgia: Authorities searching for 15-year-old boy not seen in more than a week
CARROLLTON, Ga. — Above video: Your Thursday headlines. Authorities in Georgia need your help finding a missing teenage boy. Derrion Shamble, 15, has been missing from Carrollton for more than a week. He is described as 5 feet 5 inches, 135 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. He...
Douglasville Man Among Non-Violent Drug Offenders Pardoned by President Biden in Bid for Justice Reform
President Joe Biden has extended his executive grace, pardoning a swath of non-violent drug offenders in a fresh clemency move. Among those benefiting from Biden's pen is Jeffrey Alan Lewis, 58, a Douglasville resident once tangled up in a Virginia drug case. Convicted in 2006 for his part in a cocaine dealing operation, Lewis has since turned his life around, clearly demonstrating the type of rehabilitation the President intends to reward, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Mail Processing Delays Threatening Elections and Newspaper Delivery
ATLANTA – Delays in processing mail at a new regional distribution center in Palmetto aren’t just affecting individual Georgians trying to obtain vital prescription drugs or pay their monthly rents or mortgages. Chronic failures to deliver the mail in a timely manner are being seen in some quarters as a threat to the underpinnings of American democracy: elections and the ability to ensure an informed electorate. Mail-in absentee ballots played...
1 person killed in Burke County crash, driver identified
BURKE COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – One person is dead following a crash in Burke County. Authorities at the sheriff’s office say that single vehicle fatality that occurred shortly before 11 pm Wednesday night. The driver, identified as 27-year-old Trevor James Michael Prevatt of Temple, Ga., was traveling north on River Road near Marie Vann Road […]
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