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Sunday, February 24, 2013  Updated with video; Albany Fire Department Chief James Carswell said announced at a morning meeting that the National Weather Service is expecting our area to get between five and eleven inches of rain.

Sunday, February 17, 2013  Albany Fire crews are currently en route to an accident at 4028 Moultrie Road where a Black Chevy Blazer has fallen off the roadway.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  With such a substantial amount of rain that has fallen over the past couple of days, standing water is slowing down the Wednesday morning commute.

Monday, January 28, 2013  Albany police are searching for two black males after an Sunday evening robbery on Moultrie Road.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012  Students, teachers and staff at the Moultrie Road Head Start wore red on Tuesday in support of Head Start Awareness Month.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012  An intoxicated man attacks family and friends with pieces of a door frame.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011  Updated with video; The Albany Fire Department says an electrical short in a cell phone charger caused heavy flame and smoke damage to a Moultrie Road home.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010  Investigators say a child playing with a lighter caused a fire at a mobile home Sunday morning

Sunday, May 23, 2010  A 6-year-old was playing with a lighter in her bedroom around 8:45 Sunday morning.

Sunday, April 25, 2010  The family living at 3903 Moultrie Road smelled smoke around 11:30 Sunday morning and called 911.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010  Albany’s SWAT Team raided an apartment early this morning where they say a man was holding his girlfriend hostage.

Thursday, March 04, 2010  Code and law enforcement are targeting smaller areas where there are vacant and dilapidated properties in East Albany.

Sunday, February 28, 2010  Police say three men with guns robbed Floridaman Perez and Joel Vasquez at their home on Moultrie Road around 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

Sunday, January 03, 2010  Police say Dontavis Waters and David Mansfield, Jr. broke into an apartment on the 700 block of Moultrie Road around 2:45 Saturday afternoon.

Sunday, November 29, 2009  Armed robberies took place on Moultrie Road and Nottingham Way this weekend.