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Tuesday, June 04, 2013  Officials with the Sylvester Police Department say that with assistance from the U.S. Marshall's office, a man wanted for murder in Florida has been captured.

Monday, June 03, 2013  The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled in favor of Baker County Sheriff Dana Meade by reversing a superior court ruling that found enough irregularities in his runoff election that it declared the election invalid and ordered a new election.

Thursday, May 30, 2013  Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards has confirmed that multiple people have been indicted by a grand jury for their connects to multiple burglaries last year.

Thursday, May 30, 2013  A retired educator of 40 years, Elaine Daniels, says one of her biggest frustrations as a teacher was having students come back in the fall that had forgotten everything they learned the year prior over the summer.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  Updated with video; In Wednesday’s Dougherty County School System Transportation Committee meeting, officials discussed a survey where that monitored the number of people who illegally pass school buses when the stop arm is down.

Saturday, May 11, 2013  Updated with video; Dougherty County school board members will soon vote on whether or not to restructure the school system's transportation department.

Friday, April 26, 2013  Updated with video; Albany Police Department Lieutenant James Williams is retiring after 30 years of service.

Friday, April 26, 2013  Updated with video; In Thursday ‘s FOX 31 Facebook story of the day people wanted to know if southwest Georgians think food stamp recipients should be banned from buying soda.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 

Friday, April 12, 2013  Updated with video; With two accidents involving school buses in Dougherty County in the past week, some are wondering if the bus driver is responsible and what kind of training drivers are required to go through.

Thursday, April 04, 2013  The reward for information leading to an arrest in the Willard Ave homicide is now $5,000, thanks to a $2,500 donation by the city of Albany.

Saturday, March 23, 2013  Saturday was day 2 of Albany State University's Aviation Awareness Days.

Monday, March 18, 2013  A shooting in the 500 block of Willard Avenue, Sunday night, leaves two dead.

Monday, March 11, 2013  With 1/3 of the cameras on the Dougherty County School System's buses not working, the school board unanimously voted to upgrade 40 of their fleet with working DVR’s during Monday evening’s board meeting. They say the $67,600 purchase is necessary for stopping incidents on the bus.

Saturday, March 09, 2013  Updated with video; After an auditor pointed out the improper payment history of the Terrell County Tax Commissioner, the Terrell County Board of Commissioners decided to sent the findings to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal.