A Friday night crash sent two people to Coffee Regional Medical Center and blocked a busy intersection just blocks from downtown. The accident took place around 9:45 p.m. at the intersection of Ward Street and Gaskin Avenue. A Pontiac G6 car traveling west on Ward Street collided with an older model Chevrolet S-10 pickup that was headed north on Gaskin Avenue. The impact damaged the passenger side of the pickup and knocked the truck onto the sidewalk on the northwest side of Gaskin facing north. The Pontiac suffered major front-end damage and spun around in the intersection facing east. The…
Author: Robert Preston
Sports coverage is a big part of what we do at DouglasNow. I’ve said many times and I’ll say it many more – what we publish on the front page often highlights people’s failures. But what we publish on the sports page often highlights people’s successes. I’m going to do the same thing here that I did with the news stories – I’m going to list the top sports stories by the number of views on the DouglasNow website. But there is another story, one that website analytics don’t tell, that I’ll discuss after the main list. I’ll list the…
Here are the top stories DouglasNow covered in 2025. There are a few different methods to determine what the top stories are. In the end, we decided to rank the stories in importance based on the number of times stories were read on the DouglasNow.com website. And while that is the simplest and easiest way to see which stories were the most important, it does have its flaws and it may not necessarily paint the entire picture. For example, there may be major issues that were covered in several different stories. Taken as individual stories, they may not have generated…
The Atlanta Falcons haven’t had much to celebrate this year. But one Falcon with ties to Douglas is having a pretty good season in spite of his team’s woes. Seven-year NFL veteran Kentavius Street, who was a Coffee Trojan before moving to North Carolina when he was in high school, is in his third year with the Falcons. He’s played in 84 games during his career, starting 10. This season, he’s played in six games and tallied 17 tackles – eight solo and nine assisted. He also has two tackles for loss, one sack, and one quarterback hit. In Atlanta’s…
At the last city commission meeting of the year, commissioners voted to close a city street for most of next year. A new apartment complex is being built along Andrew Street between North Daughtry Avenue and North Wheeler Avenue. The property has been cleared and trucks are bringing in dirt as work crews prep the site. Construction on the 48-unit complex will begin in early 2026. Andrew Street is a lightly traveled street, especially between Wheeler and Daughtry. The road is being closed so construction materials can be placed on the road. The commission did the same thing when Heritage…
Douglas Now Live with Robert Preston Jr. Topics include the arrest of the suspect wanted in connection with the December 11 shooting on North Pearl, Wiregrass’s accreditation news, and a CHS student going to Harvard (video appears below ad).
Douglas Now Live with Robert Preston Jr. Today’s topics include the GHSA state football championships, unemployment, and an insurance fraud arrest in Coffee County (video appears below ad).
Douglas Now Live with Robert Preston Jr. Today’s topics include Sunday night’s accident, a donation from the sheriff’s office, Coffee High’s robotics team, and CCA’s postseason football awards (video appears below ad).
Sunday night around 9 p.m., Douglas police officers responded to a crash at the In & Out convenience store located on East Baker Highway. A vehicle had driven through the front door of the store, causing significant damage to the building and the vehicle. People at the scene stated that the driver of the vehicle, which was a white Nissan Juke, thought the car was in park but “something happened.” The Juke crashed through the front door, going almost all the way into the store. While the accident took out a significant portion of the front of the store, no…
Douglas Now Live with Robert Preston Jr. Today’s topics include the annual Christmas parade, the proper disposal of Christmas trees, the self-inflicted death in the Coffee County Jail of the accused Tifton police officer shooter, and the report of alleged child abuse from the school system that led to the arrest of a 29-year-old (video appears below ad).