Tuesday, May 21 2013 6:00 PM EDT2013-05-21 22:00:14 GMT
Information from APD- Thanks to donations from the City of Albany and several local businesses, the Albany Area Crime Stoppers Board got valuable information on a double murder. They rewarded a soleMore >>
Thanks to donations from the City of Albany and several local businesses, the Albany Area Crime Stoppers Board got valuable information on a double murder.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 5:08 PM EDT2013-05-21 21:08:35 GMT
Some folks in South Georgia frantically tried to get in touch with loved ones who live near the destruction in Oklahoma. Leesburg's Wendy Mathis has a brother who lives in Oklahoma City and works inMore >>
Some folks in South Georgia frantically tried to get in touch with loved ones who live near the destruction in Oklahoma. Leesburg's Wendy Mathis has a brother who lives in Oklahoma City and works in Bethany, just 10 miles north of Moore. Albany native Liz Barfield recently relocated to a city nearby Moore, Oklahoma.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 5:04 PM EDT2013-05-21 21:04:27 GMT
The Lakeland Police Department is looking for a new police chief. Chief Jeff Harrison resigned Friday after nearly three years in the position. City officials say he's taking a higher paying job in NorthMore >>
The Lakeland Police Department is looking for a new police chief. More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 4:57 PM EDT2013-05-21 20:57:11 GMT
A Valdosta man born and raised in Moore, Oklahoma says his family and friends there are all okay. He grew up just two miles from the hardest hit area of town. Todd McCawley spent the first 17 years ofMore >>
A Valdosta man born and raised in Moore, Oklahoma says his family and friends there are all okay. He grew up just two miles from the hardest hit area of town.More >>
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano got a first hand look at the devastation in Smithville.
She and other federal officials such as Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate saw the aftermath and met with the town's survivors.
Napolitano had a hard time putting into words the degree of the destruction. She's promising that federal help will keep flowing.
"This is not gonna be a quick comeback or an immediate one, but it will be, in my view a complete one when all is said and done, and that will be on behalf on all of us who are here. I understand that a number of people lost their lives, and indeed two are having their services this afternoon and that, and that too reminds us of the severity of this storm and the toll that mother nature has taken," Napolitano said.
Residents attended funeral services for two of those 15 people killed in Wednesday's tornado. All but four grave stones at Smithville's Cemetery were knocked down and buried under piles of debris.
Crews worked Sunday to get the cemetery back in order. More than a dozen people are still missing after the storm.
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