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If you're traveling this Memorial Day Weekend, you may notice you're paying about the same at the pump as last year. AAA says the average gas price in Georgia right now is about $3.46 a gallon. That'sMore >>
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Looks like will have great weather for Memorial Day weekend and DNR Rangers are preparing for big crowds on Lake Blackshear.More >>
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A Cordele woman and her father are leading an effort to send clothes and other supplies to tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma. Not only are a lot of people already donating items, but people are chippingMore >>
A Cordele woman and her father are leading an effort to send clothes and other supplies to tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 8:20 PM EDT2013-05-23 00:20:52 GMT
The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believesMore >>
The Lee County Sheriff's Department is now working with the Albany Crime stoppers. The Lee County Sheriff's Department asked to join the Albany Crime-stoppers program. The Sheriff's Department believes it will be a helpful tool in closing some cases.
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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 belongings and pets that were lost during the storm More >>
ALBANY, GA (WALB) - An Albany man, arrested at a motel after a takedown this morning, is now charged with murder.
28-year-old Brian Beasley is charged with murder, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft in the death of 19-year old Robert Purvis.
Purvis was shot and killed at a Mock Road car wash yesterday morning and his car was stolen.
The car was later abandoned at the Albany Mall and police tracked Beasley to the Sleep Inn motel this morning.
Some roomso near his were evacuated and Merry Acres Middle School across the street was put under lockdown.
Officers arrested Beasley inside his room.
That shook up other motel guests.
"We were in the kitchen eating some cereal and somebody said get out, get out and we turned around and there was a SWAT team with shields and shotguns," said Sleep Inn Guest Lisa Lauterbach. "They made us get out and away because there was a man in there with a gun and they were afraid everybody was going to get shot."
Beasley is being held in the Dougherty County jail.
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