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Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Thursday, April 12, 2012 include Almeter Fuller Boatwright, 86, of Moultrie; Sandra White, 42, of Cartersville, Ga.; and Bernice Kirkland Whidden, 68, of White, Ga.
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Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Thursday, April 12, 2012 include Almeter Fuller Boatwright, 86, of Moultrie; Sandra White, 42, of Cartersville, Ga.; and Bernice Kirkland Whidden, 68, of White, Ga.
Suspects charged in separate shootings
Law enforcement brought murder charges this week against a Moultrie man who was interviewed in the days following the fatal shooting of Norman Park resident Dusty Carroll. A suspect has also been charged in an unrelated, non-fatal shooting March 10.
A Moultrie woman who teaches at Omega Elementary School has been named the 2013-14 Tift County Teacher of the Year.
A woman reported a former boyfriend forced her into the back of her car, took her out while he bought drugs, and then she jumped out when the car slowed.
A suspect who claimed self-defense in a deadly shooting April 28 has been charged with murder.
A man accused of stealing a pack of cigarettes after attacking the resident with a knife and a Moultrie man accused of trying to outrun police with four children in a car were among those arrested over the weekend by local law enforcement.
Many law enforcement agencies honor their fallen comrades on or about May 15, proclaimed since 1962 as National Peace Officers Memorial Day. But more than two weeks earlier, a Pavo native who died on duty in Memphis, Tenn., received recognition from an unlikely source: the family of the man who killed him.
Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s Radiology Department recently received reaccreditation from the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA).