OP Fuel’s Leah Pruett closing in on win approaching NHRA Southern Nationals
OP Fuel’s Leah Pruett closing in on win approaching NHRA Southern Nationals Leah Pruett has enjoyed a strong start to her return to the Top Fuel ranks and appears as close as ever to her first win of the 2026 season in the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series. Heading to South Georgia Motorsports Park for…
Read MoreFunny Car’s J.R. Todd looks to win NHRA debut at South Georgia Motorsports Park for NHRA Southern Nationals
Funny Car’s J.R. Todd looks to win NHRA debut at South Georgia Motorsports Park for NHRA Southern Nationals After an eventful event in Charlotte, past Funny Car world champion J.R. Todd and the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series travel to South Georgia Motorsports Park for the facility’s first NHRA national event for this…
Read MoreColumnist offers his thoughts on the candidates in the election
by Ben Baker By request – My thoughts on the election and the candidates. Some people have asked my opinion about who is running for office in the coming primary. Here ya go, but first a few things: Early voting starts April 27 and goes through May 15. Election Day is May 19. Local races…
Read MoreThe death penalty in Cook County, Ga.
By Charles Shiver I drove through Sparks down a back street due to a detour one morning last week. I saw where what I believe was a club where the owner was stabbed to death with an ice pick years ago is now a daycare center. I remembered the store in Adel where the owner…
Read MoreFate of the I-75 Rape Gang
By Charles Shiver Did you know back in 1973, a Cook County Superior Court judge and juries sentenced three defendants in the same rape and kidnapping case to death in the State of Georgia’s electric chair? And all three monsters were put on Death Row less than six months after they had committed the offenses?…
Read More‘Star Trek’ creator’s hidden connections to South Georgia
By Charles Shiver “He’s a high-tech redneck Mayberry meets Star Trek He’s a bumpkin’ but he’s plugged in He’s a high-tech redneck …” – George Jones, “High-Tech Redneck” It may surprise you to learn, as it did me, that the late Gene Roddenberry, creator of the “Star Trek” television show, had ties to our neighboring…
Read MoreRemembering Jennifer
By Charles Shiver I have worked at the Adel News Tribune during the time that two tragedies shook the community to the core: First, the broad daylight double murders of Adel store owner Carroll Bennett and his employee Becky Browning in November 2000, and then the tornado disaster that took the lives of seven people…
Read MoreMan indicted for murder in fentanyl case
By Charles Shiver Last week, the Cook County Grand Jury returned a true bill of indictment against Derrick Brandon Thomas, 42, of Douglas for felony murder (four counts, related to multiple offenses against one victim) and aggravated assault (three counts, against the murder victim and two other men), according to Superior Court records. Thomas has…
Read MoreReturn from the Danger Zone
By Charles Shiver Donald S. “Bush” Bryan, who passed away on May 15, 2012, at the age of 90, was among the greatest of The Greatest Generation, and we will never see his like again. Cook County Airport Manager Jerry Connell, the Airport Authority, and Cook County should be commended for preserving Mr. Bryan’s awesome…
Read MoreMulti-State ATM “Jackpotting” Ring Busted in Middle District of Georgia Venezuelan Group Tied to ATM Thefts or Attempted Thefts in Georgia, Florida and Kentucky ALBANY, Ga. – A group of Venezuelan nationals involved in a series of ATM “jackpotting” thefts across Georgia and additional states have pleaded guilty to federal charges. Hector Alejandro…
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