Units from the Berrien County Fire Department and Atkinson County Fire Department responded to a tobacco barn fire at Vickers Farms in eastern Berrien County Sunday night, according to the Berrien County Fire Department’s Facebook page. Vickers Farms is one of the few farms in South Georgia still producing tobacco and their operation is significant. Also, according to the BCFD page, two of the owners, Carlos Vickers and Bradley Vickers, are BCFD firefighters while a third owner, Lamar Vickers, is a former firefighter. Carlos Vickers is the East Berrien District fire chief. Other responding units included Nashville and Ray City.…
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The two games the CCA Lady Patriots played Saturday in Cordele should have spanned 14 innings. They took nine. The Lady Patriots defeated Westfield 11-3 in five innings Saturday morning. They came back that afternoon and bested Brookwood 14-1 in four innings. Against Westfield, the Lady Patriots scored in every inning but the first. They plated four in the second, three in the third, two in the fourth, and two in the fifth to win via run rule. Two Lady Patriots homered in the game – Arabelle Roberts circled the bases for a legitimate inside-the-park home run in the second…
The CCA Lady Patriots are 2-0 after defeating the Fullington Academy Lady Trojans 9-3 in Cordele on Friday afternoon. Fullington jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first. CCA responded with two in the first and two in the second for a 4-1 lead. Fullington narrowed the advantage to one run with a two-spot in the third. The Lady Patriots padded their lead with a run in the fourth and four in the fifth. Brilynn Waldron led CCA offensively with a 3-4, two RBI day. She also scored a run. Mattie Lewis, Peighton Harper, and Arabelle Roberts had two…
Douglas police officers arrested a 34-year-old a few blocks away from an auto accident from which allegedly fled. According to the incident report, on August 1, 2026, at around 3:30 p.m., an officer responded to a hit and run at the intersection of North Madison Avenue and East Leon Street. The driver of vehicle two was at the scene and had a small cut on his right leg but was otherwise unhurt, the report says. Vehicle one was about 100 yards away on East Leon and had been abandoned. The driver of vehicle two stated that he was traveling north…
Former Trojan and redshirt sophomore defensive back at Charleston Southern is one of six Buccaneers to receive pre-season All-Conference honors. The Bucs have two offensive players (receiver Mekhi Campbell and lineman Ethan Hunt) and four defensive players (Paulk, fellow defensive back Champ Brantley, linebacker Steve Zayachkowsky, and lineman Mylan Bowen) on the list. Last season, Paulk was named Defensive Player of the Year for the OVC-Big South Conference. He finished the season with 33 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, one interception, two forced fumbles, six pass breakups, and two blocked punts in 12 games. Charleston Southern opens its season on…
A 32-year-old undocumented resident of Douglas is in the Coffee County Jail on serious charges for alleged sex crimes against a child. According to an incident report from the Douglas Police Department, Arsenio Aguilar-Aguilar, 32, of Douglas, was arrested on July 18, 2026, after officers responded to a Daughtry Avenue address in reference to a child molestation complaint. The call came in around noon. When officers arrived, the complainant stated that Aguilar-Aguilar had started drinking on July 17 and continued through the night. Around 9 a.m. on July 18, the complainant attempted to enter a bedroom of the house. The…
The Coffee Lady Trojans relied on the long ball Wednesday night against the Wayne County Yellow Jackets in Jesup. In the end, though, it was the Yellow Jackets who turned the tide with a walk-off home run of their own for a 4-3 win. Coffee’s Ella Edge led off the game with a solo home run, her second of the season, on the second pitch of the inning for a 1-0 lead. Wayne County’s Kallie Scott responded with a two-run home run of her own in the bottom of the frame to take a 2-1 advantage. The Lady Trojans tied…
The two-time defending state champion CCA Lady Patriots made a statement on Tuesday in Chula against the 3A Tiftarea Lady Panthers in the season opener, winning 23-0 in three innings. CCA scored 12 in the first, three in the second, and eight in the third. Brilynn Waldron, Mattie Lewis, and Arabelle Roberts each had three hits. Shanley Meeks and Emma Gourley had two hits each. Waldron drove in three while Klair Mercer and Roberts had three RBI. Gourley, Lewis, and Roberts scored three times. Peighton Harper started and picked up the win with two innings of work. She struck out…
The Coffee Lady Trojans jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning on solo home runs from Allie Pridgen and Ella Edge but couldn’t hold off the Irwin County Indians Tuesday in their season opener at Faircloth Field. The Indians came back and ended up winning 6-3. Coffee struck first on Edge’s home run in the third. After a ground out, Pridgen hit the first pitch she saw out to center for a 2-0 lead. The Indians, however, answered with four in the top of the fourth and two more in the sixth. The Lady…
A deputy arrested a Douglas man on several charges, including aggravated assault, following an alleged domestic incident on Sand Dollar Road. According to an incident report from the sheriff’s office, the argument started over a Black & Mild. The report says that the suspect, identified as Denzel Reshey Green, 31, and the complainant started arguing because the complainant had asked him to buy her a Black & Mild on his way home. When he got home, she asked him about the Black & Mild and he became angry, the report says. From there, the argument escalated into an altercation. The…