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Saturday, May 11, 2013  Updated with video; The Cordele Police Department is searching for an arsonist who set a woman’s 15th Avenue house on fire Sunday morning while she was away on vacation.

Friday, May 10, 2013  Cordele Police are searching for a woman who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the chest over a Facebook post on Monday evening.

Friday, May 10, 2013  Cordele Police are trying to find a group of people that broke into the same store twice in one week and took off with almost $2,000 worth of prescription drugs.

Thursday, April 04, 2013  Updated with video; Officials say 54-year-old Antonio Hornsby is the man caught on multiple surveillance cameras throughout businesses in Georgia posing as a handyman in order to steal money.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  Updated with video; Around 9:40 AM Wednesday morning, Corporal Kris Herrick with Cordele Police Department  was participating in Operation Lifesaver with Norfolk Southern train company alerting motorists about train track safety when four blocks away, a man and his vehicle was struck by a Norfolk Southern Train.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013  The Cordele Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying two men caught on camera stealing almost $10,000 worth of goods from Walmarts in Cordele, Perry, Locust Grove, and Eastman, Georgia.

Monday, November 12, 2012  Cordele Police have opened a homicide investigation after a 38-year-old woman was shot around midnight on Monday.

Monday, October 08, 2012  Cordele Police arrested 24-year-old robbery suspect Steve Williams on Saturday but are still looking for his accomplice who fled on foot.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012  A nail salon worker is facing charges after a fire breaks out at her place of employment.

Wednesday, July 04, 2012  Updated with video; Police responded to a deadly shooting early Tuesday morning.

Thursday, May 03, 2012  Under-ringing a customer results in a felony arrest from the Cordele Police Department at Home Depot.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012  The GBI has charged a man for the weekend stabbing death of 16-year-old Andrew Ford in Cordele.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012  Updated with video; A 16-year-old boy has died in Cordele.

Saturday, January 08, 2011  Cordele Police Department officials told FOX News on Saturday morning that 19-year-old Brandon Harrington has been arrested and charged with the murder of 72-year-old Mamie Wright.

Thursday, January 06, 2011  Cordele police spokeswoman Sandy MacNeil tells FOX 31 News that 72-year-old Mamie Evelyn Wright was shot three times Wednesday morning inside her home at 106 North 13th Street.