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IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. - The state has rested its case in trial of Ryan Duke for the murder of Tara Grinstead. The defense team will now try to prove Ryan Duke's confession in 2017 is inadmissible. Grinstead was a history teacher and beauty pageant queen. She went missing in Ocilla,...

The Keep Douglas Beautiful Committee held its first Great American Cleanup on Saturday, April 30, 2022. Approximately 50 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to help pick up litter and collect tires in the city. “We were so excited to see how many came and supported our event,” says Keep Douglas...

TIFTON — Tony Tucker of Camilla received the Outstanding Business Leader award from the ABAC Alumni Association at the recent homecoming awards luncheon at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. A 1991 ABAC graduate, Tucker is the President/CEO of Mitchell EMC and has served in that role since 2010. Prior to...

OCILLA, Ga — The first week of testimony in the Ryan Duke murder trial wrapped up Friday as the defense team continued to center its case around a key piece of evidence. Channel 2′s Tony Thomas is in south Georgia following the trial for the suspect accused of murdering Tara Grinstead.

OCILLA, Ga. – On Thursday in Irwin County, the state was finally able to present their most significant piece of evidence. Ryan Duke’s confession to killing Tara Grinstead. The bone-chilling audio and video recordings were finally shown to the jurors after they were excused Wednesday as the state...

The supplier to a Telfair County drug trafficking ring was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for his role in distributing methamphetamine and other illegal drugs in south Georgia. James Lamount Graham, 49, of Jacksonville, Ga., was sentenced to 170 months in prison, with no parole in the...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - A Jacksonville man has been arrested following a shooting in Valdosta in early May, according to the Valdosta Police Department (VPD). VPD said on May 6, around 12:37 a.m., officers responded to the parking lot of Krave on Jerry Jones Drive after an altercation. Further investigation...

OCILLA, Ga. — Jurors in the Tara Grinstead murder trial watched intently as prosecutors played a confession from her accused killer. Channel 2′s Tony Thomas has covered this case from the beginning and was in court Thursday as the confession was played. Thomas said Ryan Duke sat without...

Sentencing continues for defendants who were charged in Operation Sandy Bottom, a case that swept through Coffee County and nabbed nearly 50 defendants. In the last week of April, six more defendants and their attorneys appeared in front of the judge to learn their fate. The following sentences were handed...

TOWN OF RHINE - Shortly after the Civil War, residents in the Town of Rhine decided to remember forever the 115 young men of the township who joined the Union Army by funding a monument. Of that number, 23 did not return and are buried elsewhere. Relatives of the fallen soldiers were the prime movers of...

IRWIN COUNTY, Ga. - It was an important day for state prosecutors as they presented evidence that they hope will convince a jury to find Ryan Duke guilty of the murdering Tara Grinstead. The court heard the audio and video confession Duke made in 2017 Another video shown shows Duke...

SAVANNAH, GA – A Coffee County man has been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison after admitting he shared images of child sexual exploitation. Clarence Eugene Barr, 33, of Broxton, Ga., was sentenced to 150 months in prison after pleading guilty to Distribution of Child Pornography, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker also ordered Barr to register as a sex offender and to serve 10 years of supervised release after completion of his prison term.

DOUGLAS, Ga. (WALB) - A Coffee County man has been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison after admitting he shared images of child sexual exploitation, according to David Estes, US Attorney of the Southern District of Georgia. Clarence Eugene Barr, 33, of Broxton, was sentenced to 12...

OCILLA, Ga. — Day four of testimony in the Ryan Duke murder trial focused on video from 2017 where Ryan Duke confessed to investigators that he killed missing Ocilla teacher, Tara Grinstead. After spending the morning watching his taped confession, jurors and a full courtroom then watched video of...

OCILLA, GA – On Tuesday, May 3, 2022, the GBI Southwestern Regional Drug Enforcement Office, Southcentral Drug Task Force, Irwin County Sheriff’s Office, and the Georgia Department of Corrections conducted a joint investigation into the actions of Reginald Eugene Ford, age 48, of Ocilla, GA. Ford was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.

OCILLA, Ga. — Testimony ended early Wednesday in the Ryan Duke murder trial. Testimony hit an abrupt roadblock when lawyers couldn’t agree on what portions of Duke’s confession to play. The judge sent jurors home as they hashed the issues out. Up until then, the day’s focus...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (WRBL) — A Jacksonville, Georgia man was sentenced to over 14 years in prison for supplying methamphetamine and other illegal drugs to a Telfair County drug trafficking ring. James Lamount Graham, 49, was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury after a three-day trial in November 2021. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration […]

Investigators had two key pieces of evidence when South Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead disappeared in 2005. There was a call from a payphone just blocks away from Grinstead’s home. And there was a latex glove found in the front yard of the home, a now-retired GBI agent testified Wednesday. The GBI didn’t plan to release those details to the public, Gary Rothwell said from the witness stand.