Dal Cannady
Bureau Chief
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Dal Cannady has been WTOC's bureau chief since 1996. But he's been a reporter in southeast Georgia since 1990. Before coming to the Southeast News Leader, Dal served as anchor/news director for the CNN/Headline News affiliate in Statesboro.
"But my first job in television was at the age of nine or ten at high school football games, carrying around film reels (who remembers those?) for my uncle who was a TV news director in Albany, Georgia," he recalls. "I was paid with a bag of popcorn, a Coke and some M&Ms."
A graduate of Georgia Southern University, Dal has lived in Statesboro since 1985. A father of three children, ranging in age from toddler to teenager, Dal is active in his church and is a struggling "do-it-yourselfer" around the house.
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There’s no greater honor than the Sullivan Cup to Army tank crews.
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U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff announced new funding for barracks at a trip to the base Tuesday.
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More than 500 Fort Stewart soldiers and commanders remain locked in an exercise to help the entire Army test out new battle plans to see how they work.
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A woman was killed during Tuesday’s tornado damage in northern Bryan County. Her husband was picking up the pieces of their home Thursday after being released from the hospital.
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The widow of Julian Lewis will be getting a $4.8 million dollar settlement, which could be the largest in state history.
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A now former Candler County deputy faces charges he abused his authority in searching state criminal records and charging businesses to do it.
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The GBI confirms an arrest has been made in connection to the deaths of a woman and her daughter in Vidalia.
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The Vidalia Fire Department shared these photos of damage to Fire Station 1 during severe weather Sunday evening.
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Five teenagers and one adult face charges in Statesboro after the armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver.
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Two higher education campuses in Statesboro will swap locations for at least part of their schools.
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Some of the artillery troops at Fort Stewart will be among the first to train with one of the Army’s newest artilleries.
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One person is dead after a plane crashed Tuesday night in Statesboro.
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Georgia Southern University made national news Thursday in hiring a new coach.
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The Screven County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) are on the scene of a shooting at a home on Bryan’s Bridge Road.
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A truck driver is hospitalized and a state trooper is injured after a strange incident on Interstate 16 early Tuesday morning in Candler County.
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Consumers nationwide know about Georgia peaches and Vidalia onions, but we usually associate oranges and grapefruits with Florida.
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The Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office is investigating multiple fatalities on Miller Street Extension, outside of Statesboro.
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Families who have buried a loved one in a private cemetery in Statesboro are contacting police to help in an ongoing investigation.
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Police in Statesboro need your help in a bizarre case. They’re looking for people who buried loved ones in a cemetery, but may have unknowingly done it without paying for the plot.
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Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner says the past year has been the “best of times and worst of times” for Peach State farmers.
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A family coming home from graduation was notified that their home was on fire in Liberty County on Saturday.
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A Statesboro man once again laced up his walking shoes to circle the city over and over through the night to support law officers.
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Some people have had this week circled on their culinary calendar for months. Vidalia onions show up in stores everywhere as farmers start to harvest and ship their famous crop.
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A national military group ranks Georgia Southern University among the best schools for those who’ve served their country to get an education.
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Some campaign seasons have already started.
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Farmers who are harvesting this year’s peanut crop may have serious damage from a virus that has nothing to do with COVID-19.
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Georgia voters will find three questions on the ballot separate from any candidates and contests.
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Protestors gathering in Sylvania this Saturday hope to keep pressure on prosecutors in the case of a state trooper who shot a suspect after a chase.
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Thursday evening, student athletes from Georgia Southern will march to call attention to national issues like social justice and racial equality.
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Several Georgia Southern University football players are planning a peaceful march on Thursday, Sept. 3.
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All universities in Georgia either require masks now or they will by the start of Fall semester, including Georgia Southern. But the university department figured out a way to supply more safety when crowds return to campus.
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Sixty-nine percent of Americans say they'll take less road trips this summer, according to a recent survey by Finance Buzz.
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned Georgia’s economy on its ear and forced lawmakers to rewrite the state’s budget last week.
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The pandemic is hitting farmers hard, in ways you might not think.
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Law enforcement interrupted a church service on Sunday in Statesboro after its congregation defied the Governor’s executive order and met anyway.
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Hunters in Southeast Georgia now have thousands more acres of public land to look for deer and turkey.
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Gambling was a hot topic as the Georgia General Assembly met for the 2020 session. But in an election year, many legislators won’t want to start the debate when they could be back home campaigning.
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Ask most people and they’ll tell you Georgia’s known as The Peach State. But a new fruit crop could be just as sweet.
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More than 2,000 Georgia Southern Eagles get their diplomas this weekend.
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One of the two suspects charged with felony murder after a buried body was found in late October in Toombs County was sentenced to life with parole on Thursday after taking a plea deal.
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A Bulloch County man faces several charges including animal cruelty after the Sheriff’s Office says he killed one of two pet pigs and left the remains on a neighbors land.
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Cotton farmers say the day-long downpour on Saturday could have been a whole lot worse and could have taken out the rest of this crop before they could get it harvested.
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The Sunbelt Ag Expo offers enough of the past, present, and future of agriculture to bring roughly 80,000 visitors to Moultrie, Ga.
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Ranchers who haven’t seen rain in months say this drought is taking its toll, not only on the livestock and what they’d feed them now but what they need to feed them this winter.
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Dry weather has South Georgia farmers wondering how much of their fall crops they will actually harvest.
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Plenty of South Georgia farmers have equipment in the field to harvest one of the state’s largest crops: peanuts.
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A Liberty County teacher is behind bars after he was arrested on charges of child molestation over the weekend.
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This weekend means graduation for thousands of Georgia Southern University students, and a somber memorial for five young women lost.
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A Georgia house bill up for debate on Tuesday in the senate could open up the state for some farms to grow hemp for medicinal purposes and other uses.
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It happened around 3 p.m. when a plane from Savannah crashed when the pilot attempted to land.