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Small business Saturday this weekend

Submitted by City of Milledgeville Main Street/ DDA, Main Street

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013, 3:10pm

Milledgeville, GA- Milledgeville Main Street/ Downtown Development Authority and the fine merchants of downtown Milledgeville have joined forces to promote this national movement: Small Business Saturday. Join us Saturday November 30th in historic downtown Milledgeville to support our local small businesses.

This event is to encourage shopping local to help celebrate and provide support to small business during this holiday season. Main Street and the merchants are offering a great incentive to shop local this Saturday- a raffle! The raffle is for a basket of goodies from over 10 downtown merchants and includes gift cards, jewelry and more!

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013, 1:05pm

MILLEDGEVILLE - police said they believe the case in which a two-month-old child was killed could have been domestic violence that "went wrong."

The child, Makenzie Hartry, died on Sept. 6 in a Lincoln Street apartment.

She was found in a crib in a back room with trauma to the right frontal lobe, police said.

Investigators believe she was dead for about 8 to 10 hours before authorities arrived.

The baby's parents, Tamarus Hartry and Jessica Driskell, were arrested Friday and charged with felony murder and first-degree child cruelty.

13WMAZ's Judy Le will have more on this story at Eyewitness News at 5 and 6.

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Several break-ins and one vehicle stolen in Baldwin County

Submitted by Kenny Burgamy on Tuesday, August 20th, 2:18 pm

The Baldwin County Sheriff's Department is looking for the person or persons responsible for several vehicle break-ins and one stolen vehicle.

Captain Brad King told 13WMAZ that it happened Tuesday morning and they believe the break-ins and theft are connected.

King said, "It happened in the Allenwood subdivision and there was a report that in one of the vehicle break-ins someone stole a firearm. We later heard that shots were fired in the West End area around 5:30 this morning, and think that the shots came from the newly obtained weapon taken in the break-in."

King said that his department is continuing to investigate.

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, August 9th, 2013, 7:07pm

Facebook comments landed a Baldwin County man in prison for five years.

On August 9, 2012, Steven Martin posted a comment on Facebook describing his "desires" to be famous, and felt the only way to accomplish this goal was to walk into an elementary school and shoot someone.

The threat did not name a specific name or location.

The Milledgeville Police Department was tipped off about the post and immediately arrested Martin.

Martin received the maximum sentence of 5 years, with the first two in confinement and the remainder on probation.

Fred Bright, the District Attorney for the Ocmulgee Judicial District, said the sentence sends a "no-tolerance" policy.

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More Irish Than the Irish

Submitted by Andalusia Farm on Friday, July 26th, 1:32 pm

In last week's post I mentioned the O'Connor conference in Ireland next year. While the conference is taking place in the author's ancestral homeland, it may surprise readers of this blog to learn that Flannery's opinions of Ireland and its people were rather mixed.

Her friend Ashley Brown said Flannery "had a rather low opinion of Ireland. She called Blarney Castle 'Baloney Castle.'

That was worthy of Finnegans Wake." (At Home With Flannery O'Connor: An Oral History, p.113). In a letter to Janet McKane, Flannery confessed, "I have never been greatly tied emotionally or sentimentally to my own Irish background. The Irish in America are sometimes more Irish than the Irish and I suppose some of my indifference is a reaction against that." (The Habit of Being, p. 531). ... Read More

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Submitted by 13WMAZ Web Staff

Friday, June 7th, 2013, 3:48pm

A jailer for the Milledgeville Police has been arrested and charged and fired for allegedly having sex with a female inmate.

The alleged sexual assault happened Tuesday evening between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Around 1:30 p.m. the next day, the woman filed her complaint against 40-year-old Jeffery Bernard Brown.

Brown is in the Baldwin County jail, Sheriff William Massey says.

Within 30 minutes of receiving the complaint, Milledgeville Police Chief Dray Swicord contacted the GBI, agent Joseph Ricketson says.

Ricketson tells 13WMAZ he sent a crime scene analyst and two agents to investigate the claims. He says they found "enough probable cause" to justify charging Brown.

Swicord said Brown and the inmate allegedly had sex in a day room of the jail's women's dorm.

He would not describe the encounter, but said Brown would have faced a different charge if investigators hadn't believed the sex was consensual.

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