TIFTON — Rain is on the ground and above the ground in the backyard of this home in Irwinville Monday. There were reports of over five inches in Irwinville, and of nearly four inches in Worth County. On the Coastal Plain Experiment Station website, a total of 2.9 inches of rain were reported in Tift County. Other residents did report over three inches in other parts of Tift County, however. Also on the Coastal Plain website, there was also a report of sustained winds of 27.4 mph at 12:05 a.m. Monday. The forecast is for even more rain today.
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Rain was standing up at this home in Irwinville. Steve Carter/The Tifton Gazette
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Fugitive arrested in Tifton
Investigators with the Tift County Sheriff’s Office, along with members of the U.S. Marshall’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 36-year-old Charlie Frank Branner Junior of Vidalia, along with 31-year-old Kristen Caprie Johnson of Reidsville.
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Tift County Sheriff's Office investigating missing persons case
The Tift County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an investigation into a missing person report on Crystal Lynne Wiler Hendrix.
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Firebirds play Crush at Brodie Field
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Arrests made in shooting incidents last Friday – More arrests to come
Tift County Sheriff Gene Scarbrough said Wednesday that officers with the department's Criminal Investigation Division, along with agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are continuing to look into a homicide that happened last Friday on Short Street in Tift County.
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Manhunt called off Thursday afternoon
The manhunt in Omega for three suspects from Colquitt County was called off at 5 p.m. Thursday. The massive search began sometime around lunch between Omega-Eldorado Road and Omega-Ellenton Road in a wooded area, southeast of Omega, following an incident that occurred in Colquitt County, which then led to Tift County.
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Bombing suspect manhunt locks down Boston
A huge police dragnet spread across this metropolitan area Friday in search of the 19-year-old college student wanted for the Boston Marathon bombings after a night of chaotic gunfire that killed his companion suspect. A police officer was also killed and another seriously wounded.
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Rape suspect arrested
Rape suspect Quntavion Dewayne Spivey, 20, of Tifton, who was wanted by the Tifton Police Department, has been arrested for the alleged rape of three Tifton women.
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Students injured in Tift school bus accident
Several Tift County elementary students were injured Wednesday afternoon in a school bus accident on Wiley Branch Road after the bus driver accidentally ran the bus into a ditch in an attempt to avoid hitting a dog.
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Father and son squabble turns ugly
A father and son squabble turned ugly Friday afternoon, ending with the son taken to a local hospital, and the father airlifted to Macon.
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