Author: Robert Preston

Three individuals have been charged in connection with the death of Vann Brown, 39, which occurred at a residence at 1200 Woodrow Harper Road in Ambrose in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Daniel Anderson, Justin Anderson, and Jason Anderson all turned themselves in to the Coffee County Law Enforcement Center early this afternoon. Jason Anderson has been charged with making false statements and writings. Justin Anderson has been charged with tampering with evidence and making false statements and writings. Daniel Anderson has been charged with reckless conduct. Justin’s and Jason’s charges are felonies while Daniel’s charge is…

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A Coffee Correctional Facility inmate has been released from prison after DNA testing showed he was not guilty of the crimes for which he had been convicted, according to the Georgia Innocence Project. According to a post on the Georgia Innocence Project’s Facebook page, Kerry Robinson walked out of CCF a free man on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, after spending 18 years in prison. Robinson was convicted of a 1993 rape and robbery of a woman in Moultrie. He was accused of being one of three men who committed the crimes. On the morning of Jan. 8, a…

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Former Coffee Trojan Tyreek Hill has been named one of the Athletes of the Decade by In the Game Magazine. Hill played football and ran track at Coffee High. Underutilized most of his football career, nobody really understood just how talented he was until his senior year in track. He won the 100 and 200 meters at the state track meet as a senior. Later, he missed the national high school 200 meter record by a hundredth of a second. His performances in track and field both as a high school student and in the summer following graduation earned…

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I remember Jan. 3, 2000, very well. New Year’s Day was a Saturday. We brought in the new year working feverishly to save files and documents on our home computer in an attempt to salvage what we could from the dreaded Y2K bug that was going to wipe us all off the map. The tragedy that was supposed to be Y2K didn’t happen and we were all still breathing a collective sigh of relief when tragedy of another kind struck. The afternoon of Monday, Jan. 3, 2020, we received word that at least one police officer had been shot…

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The Douglas Police Department is investigating the shooting deaths of two purebred huskies on the Highway 206 Connector, according to a post on the DPD’s Facebook page. On Jan. 1, 2020, the two dogs, which lived on Schley Street in Douglas, left their property without their owner’s knowledge. Three hours later, the owner learned that her dogs were on the Connector in front of Coffee Middle School. Both of the huskies had been shot, one fatally. The surviving dog was taken to a local veterinarian for treatment. However, the dog passed away during surgery on Jan. 2. Officers…

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It always amazes me what goes viral and what doesn’t. This year’s biggest stories showed a shift in not only our coverage but also in the manner in which our readers consume news. The two biggest stories of the year weren’t even stories at all – they were simply Facebook posts that were only a couple of sentences each. The most popular stories of the year took place a little over six months and less than a mile apart: An auto accident that took place near General Coffee State Park on Saturday, Oct. 19, and the tragic drowning of…

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A local hunter made an interesting discovery Saturday morning when he went deer hunting. According to posts made on Facebook over the weekend, Tommy Greene of Douglas headed to his deer stand Saturday morning on a tract near Worth Lane just off Highway 268. When you go to the woods, you never know exactly what you’re going to find. But Greene didn’t expect this. He found a white 2019 Jeep Wrangler, stripped of its tires, rims, grill, and interior. The Jeep, which only had about 15,000 miles, had been reported stolen earlier in the week from Swainsboro. Apparently,…

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Wyatt Miller received the Christmas present of his dreams on Tuesday when he learned he was leaving the Cincinnati Bengals’ practice squad for a home on the Dallas Cowboys’ 53-man roster. With one game left in the 2019 regular season, the Dallas Cowboys picked up a couple of players on Christmas Eve, one of whom was former Coffee Trojan Miller. The other was linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong. Dallas added Miller and Armstrong, both of whom are on the 53-man roster, after guard Xavier Su’a-Filo and linebacker Leighton Vander Esch suffered injuries that landed them on injured reserve, according to Heavy.com.…

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Friday morning, two Carnival cruise ships – the Glory and the Legend – crashed into each other while the Glory docked in Cozumel, Mexico, just before 9 a.m. Joe and Jana Merritt; their three daughters; and Jana’s mother, Janice Taylor, all of Douglas, were passengers on the Legend when the accident happened. According to media reports, Carnival has called the accident an “allision” instead of a collision because one of the ships – the Legend – was docked at the time. Video footage shows the stern of the Glory coming into contact with the bow of the Legend…

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One individual is in jail and police are looking for another suspect in connection with Sunday afternoon’s fatal shooting at Amberwood Apartments in Douglas. Onterio Laroy Wilson, 27, was shot multiple times but survived the shooting. He was transported to Coffee Regional Medical Center via private vehicle where he underwent surgery. After recovering from the procedure, he was transported to the Coffee County Jail. The Douglas Police Department has not released his exact charges. A press release from the DPD is expected later today. Additionally, the DPD has arrest warrants for Abraham Levi Gordon, 24, of Douglas, in…

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