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How would you save your pets life if a tornado touched down here in South Georgia? Tuesday's tornado ripped through Oklahoma taking 24 lives, and today families are still searching for their belongingsMore >>
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Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:43 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:43:09 GMT
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. Spiderman, Ariel and a few others made rounds to the children on the pediatricMore >>
Some princesses and super heroes made a stop in Albany Wednesday to visit young patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital. More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:40 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:40:51 GMT
Students and teachers at a south Georgia school dedicated a special spot to a little girl killed in a school bus crash two weeks ago. Several other Pataula Charter Academy students were injured in thatMore >>
Students and teachers at Pataula Charter Academy dedicated a park bench on the playground of the school where 10-year-old Jordyn Doughtie was a student.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:31 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:31:56 GMT
Jurors heard closing arguments Wednesday afternoon in the aggravated assault trial of three South Georgia men charged with beating a man in the parking lot of a northwest Albany club. Prosecutors sayMore >>
Prosecutors say three men beat a man in an Albany club parking lot so fiercely they fractured his skull.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 6:24 PM EDT2013-05-22 22:24:32 GMT
Dougherty County Police are investigating a rash of entering auto thefts in the West region of the county. They hope you can identify one suspected thief caught on camera. Take a look at the young manMore >>
Dougherty County Police are looking for a young man captured on surveillance video using a stolen debit card.More >>
June 12, 2007
Albany-- The rising cost of fuel is hitting all of us in the wallet. School systems are no different.
The Dougherty County School System's new budget includes 142-thousand more dollars to pay for fuel. For the current fiscal year, school leaders budgeted fuel at $2.10 a gallon. Now they've increased that by 30-cents.
The system also increased the total transportation allotted mileage by one-million gallons to account for a new policy that will bus many students farther to keep them from having to change schools if they move to a new school zone.
"Provided it's the correct school zone, that's where they're going to stay even if they move. Obviously we're going to have to transport the children that move out of their original zones back to their home schools," said School System Finance Director Robert Lloyd.
The school system hopes to save money on fuel costs with the purchase of new vehicles. Using sales tax money, they'll replace 15-year-old vehicles with more fuel-efficient ones.
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