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Friday, May 03, 2013  Updated with video; After being denied a variance of a 1,000 foot ordinance to start a group home in an Albany community, owners of that home were back in front of the Albany Dougherty Planning Commission Thursday for reconsideration.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  Anthony Pittman told Albany police officers Wednesday evening that he was approached by an unknown black male wearing blue jeans, a white shirt and a black jacket while at a stop sign at the corner of Mercer Avenue and Davis Street.

Monday, June 04, 2012  Mayor Dorothy Hubbard will present the Mayor's Award of Excellence to the residents of O.B. Hines public housing neighborhood at a picnic in their honor on Saturday, June 2 beginning at 11:30 am at the property site located at the corner of Residence Avenue and Davis Street.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012  Updated with video; 61-year-old man stabbed three times.

Saturday, April 07, 2012  Albany police are on the search for a stabbing suspect.

Monday, August 08, 2011  Two Albany Police Department Officers were involved in an early morning crash on West Oglethorpe

Saturday, July 23, 2011  Updated with video;  School supplies came tucked in a backpack and it was all free to whoever showed up.

Monday, May 16, 2011 

Sunday, May 16, 2010  Johnny Lee Wilson told police he was walking home in the 300 block of South Davis Street around 4:30 Sunday morning when three men approached him and demanded money.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009  The Georgia Department of Transportation has begun a $10.9 million project using federal stimulus funds that's designed to make travel a little easier on a stretch of road in Gwinnett County.