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School administrators and police say they are pleased by the response to the report of a suspicious person inside Robert Cross Middle School.

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Do you recognize this gunman?

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Police in Douglas hope surveillance video will help them catch two armed robbers.

Tax split formula goes to court

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Negotiating the local option sales tax, also called LOST, is done every ten years. And this is the first time under new legislation that allows for this baseball arbitration phase, meaning a judge will ultimately decide the split.

Cracking the safe theft case

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Three burglars were after a big haul in Americus, but their hard work didn't pay off. They went after safes, and managed to steal a couple from restaurants. But they couldn't escape the lens of a surveillance camera.

Federal checks stolen

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Three men are on trial in Albany Federal Court accused of embezzling more than $700,000 from the United States Treasury.

DCCS leader should emerge soon

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The Dougherty County School Board is expected to name an interim superintendent this week.

Plant Mitchell to remain On Line

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Georgia Power plans to ask permission to decertify 15 coal and oil-fired generating units across the state. But Plant Mitchell in southern Dougherty County is not one of them.

County Commissioners sworn in

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District One Commissioner Lamar Hudgins, newly elected District Three Commissioner Clinton Johnson and District Five Commissioner Gloria Gaines were sworn in by Probate Judge Nancy Stephenson.

UPDATE: Derailed train clean-up underway

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CSX rail crews are working to right the 24 cars that came off the track when the train derailed in Decatur County off Cooler Road near Bainbridge, Saturday night.

Biker hits truck at Worth Co. intersection

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Steve Parker was riding his Honda ST-1300 to work in Albany before daybreak this morning when he struck a Ford Terminix pickup truck, driven by George Alexion.

Here's why your paycheck is smaller

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The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 extended a Social Security payroll tax cut currently withheld from all paychecks and kept the tax rate at 4.2%. Now that rate is back to 6.2%

School lock down ends; person identified

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WALB has learned that a maintenance person entered the school to work on some equipment, and wore a jacket over his uniform.

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