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UPSON S.O. SAID 37 YEAR OLD CHRISTOPHER JOHN HALE OF 36 ODOM ROAD, MEANSVILLE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER, KIMBERLY FOUNTAIN, 36 , WAS SHOT IN THE RIGHT SHOULDER WITH A 9 MILLIMETER PISTOL.
THE VICTIM WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE E.R. BY UPSON EMS. THEY WERE FIGHTING OVER THE PISTOL, ACCORDING TO A WITNESS.
UPSON S.O. SAID THE FRONT GLASS DOOR WAS SMASHED AND CIGARETTES AND CREWING TOBACCO WAS TAKEN. A BURGLARY LAST WEEK AT KELLY’S CORNER ON 74 E. IS ALSO UNDER INVESTIGATION.
THE 11TH U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CAME AFTER AN APPEAL BY FORMER THOMASTON PASTOR REV. JONATHAN WILKINS OF THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE. TGA NEWS WAS TOLD PASTOR WILKINS RECENTLY RESIGNED FROM THE CHURCH AND HAS MOVED FROM UPSON COUNTY.
T.P.HADLEY TOLD UPSON S.O. HE WAS SITTING WITH HIS WIFE, TUESDAY, WHEN HE HEARD A LOUD NOISE , THE HOUSE SHOOK, AND HE SMELLED SMOKE WHEN THE POWER WENT OUT.
ROCK HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED AND FOUND DAMAGE TO THE BASE METER AND THE PROPANE LINE IN THE FURNACE BLOWN APART.
THREE UPSON TEENS WERE INJURED MONDAY WHEN A 4-WHEELER HIT A DEER IN WOODBURY. HUNTER HEMPHILL, SON OF CHRISTY AND JONATHAN HEMPHILL WAS LIFE-FLIGHTED TO AN ATLANTA HOSPITAL AND TREATED FOR A BROKEN COLLARBONE AND A BRUISED LUNG.
CALEB ZOLMAN WAS TREATED FOR AN ARM FRACTURE AT URMC AND THE THIRD VICTIM, THOMAS BROWN HAD MINOR INJURIES. TGA NEWS WAS TOLD THEY WERE NOT WEARING SAFETY HELMETS.
ACCORDING TO THE THOMASTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, AN ELDERLY THOMASTON WOMAN WAS HOAKED FOR $14,000 BY A TELEMARKETER OVER THE PAST MONTH.
CALLERS CONNED HER INTO WITHDRAWING THE CASH FROM HER BANK ACCOUNT AND SENDING IT THEM VIA WESTERN UNION, ACCORDING TO HER DAUGHTER.
SHE WAS TOLD SHE WON A SWEEPSTAKES FOR OVER $2 MILLION IN CASH , A LUXURY AUTOMOBILE, AND OTHER PRIZES.
A LAMAR COUNTY LISTENER CALLED 101 NEWS TUESDAY AFTERNOON TO REPORT THE LIGHTHOUSE RESTAURANT ON 41 HIGHWAY IN MILNER WAS ABLAZE.
THE LIGHTHOUSE ATTRACTED CATFISH AND SEAFOOD LOVERS FROM ALL AROUND THE AREA.
ACCORDING TO THE UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, A HOUSE WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE JULY 7, AT 141 PORTER DRIVE, REGGIE DANIEL HOME OWNER.
WHEN FIRE UNITS ARRIVED THE ENTIRE RESIDENCE WAS ON FIRE. MR. DANIEL SAID HE HAD LEFT THE HOUSE ABOUT 30 MINUTES EARLIER.
THE THOMASTON POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED A THEFT SUSPECT ON THE RUN FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IS LOCKED-UP IN OKLAHOMA.
BRIAN PAUL WILSON, 17 , HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THE THEFT OF A MOWER AND OTHER EQUIPMENT FROM THE FLINT RIVER CAMPUS OF SOUTHERN CRESCENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE AND THE NEAR-BY GOLF COURSE.
