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It’s Labor Day, considered the last holiday of the summer. Many have
taken advantage of the long holiday weekend to get away. Others will be at work
as usual. Law enforcement has been extremely busy since Friday evening when the
78-hour holiday weekend began. The travel period ends at midnight tonight. Just
so you’ll know, there will be no mail delivery today. Financial institutions
will be closed for the holiday along with most City, county, state and federal
offices. Even you trash pick-up will be off a day as they celebrate the Labor
Day holiday.
The Sumter
County Board of Education will not hold a work session for September. The regular
monthly meeting has been changed to Tuesday, September 7th (tomorrow)
at 6pm instead of this Thursday September 9th. The meeting was
changed due to the Americus-Sumter football game being played on Thursday night
this week in LaGrange against Troup County. The meeting tomorrow night will be
held in the boardroom of the SCS Administration Building. The public is welcome
to attend.
The weather
has been nice for the holiday weekend and will continue here on the Labor Day
holiday. The lows yesterday morning and again this morning dropped into the
upper 50s in many areas and got the day off to a refreshing start. Tonight may
be the last time we see lows in the 60s for almost a week. As the daytime highs
begin to rise, so will the nighttime lows. Lows in the 70s will be around after
tonight as more humidity will be noticeable at night as well as the daytime. There’s
still no real mention of any significant rain for the rest of the week. Stay informed
on the weather by logging onto www.americusradio.com
from your home or office computer.
If you
did manage to get away and was wondering about your local high school football
teams and how they did this past Friday, here are the scores for you. Marion County
was a big 55-6 winner over Macon County. All the other local teams lost. Schley
County lost 34-7 to Taylor County; Southland Academy lost 50-14 to Mt. De Sales;
and Americus-Sumter lost 42-14 to Cook High. This week starts early with the
Americus-Sumter/Troup game on Thursday followed by Marion County at Schley
County and Pinewood Christian at Southland on Friday.
Americus Police assisted the Sumter County Sheriff’s Department with an
incident that started late last night and ended in the early morning hours at
the Astro Club. There were some reported injuries in the incident but few
details have been released. Then at around 6:50 this morning, Americus Police
were involved in a foot chase after an early morning burglary. One suspect was
taken into custody and a search for another suspect was still underway after 7
this morning. In other police action from the weekend, Travon Xavier Jones was
arrested at a traffic stop on Reese Street for his second offense of driving on
a suspended license.
Jesse James Jackson was arrested on E. Furlow Street for theft of lost or
mislaid property.
Herman B. Stephens was arrested at 2:34 Saturday morning at 1206 Crawford
Street for driving in violation of conditions of limited permit, his second DUI
and making any indecent or immoral exposure of the person.
Janie Lee Edwards was arrested for aggravated assault at 101 Bush Circle.
After an accident investigation at 106 Prince Street, Tamiko D. King was
arrested for colliding with a fixed object, child restraints, seat belt
violation, open container, endangering a child while DUI and DUI.
Police responded to an incident at 125 Bay Street and arrested Narada M.
Waters for open container and disorderly conduct. She was also arrested for a
City Probation warrant.
Edward Cooke Jr. was arrested at 2F 730 MLK Boulevard for assault
battery.
An accident investigation on Tripp Street led to the arrest of Jerry D.
Haugabook for driving on a suspended license.
Carmeshia Trice was arrested at 2:22 Sunday morning at 300 N. Jackson
Street for an expired license, reckless driving and assault battery.
Darrell N. Anthony was arrested at 110 Appleblossom Lane for making
terroristic threats.
At a traffic stop on W. Forsyth Street, Joshua Blake Herndon was arrested
for driving on a suspended license.
A child abuse case is under further investigation.
Simple battery complaints were made at 526 Grantham Street, on Sunset
Drive and at Weeks Trailer Park.
Burglaries were investigated at 1104 MLK Boulevard and 2001 S. Lee
Street.
Thefts took place at 409 Elm Avenue, 200 Manhattan Street, 218 Taylor
Street and 898 Angus Drive.
An auto was entered at 133 Carter Street.
Criminal trespass complaints were made at 1002-B Pineywoods Drive, 1205
S. MLK Boulevard and 113 Linnie Street.
Officers worked 9 weekend accidents with 1 injury complaint.