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Yesterday at 8:20 PM  Updated with video; Tift County Commissioner Melissa Chevers and Captain Dennis Reese with the Tift County Sheriff's Office have joined forces to implement a Neighborhood Crime Watch on the south side of the county.

Yesterday at 5:33 PM  Hope Ministries held their annual, "Benefit Cookout" this afternoon raising money and awareness for those that are less fortunate.

Yesterday at 5:00 PM  Officials in Tifton held a health fair this morning promoting better eating habits, and overall exercise routines.

Yesterday at 4:43 PM  After a 40-hour work week most Americans come home, kick off their shoes and relax. However it isn't long before their putting on those high heels and tightening up that tie to head back to the daily grind.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  Tifton Police responded to the 1100 block of South Park Ave. for a report of a shooting.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  Updated with video; Tift Regional Medical Center was recently named Regional Coordinating Hospital of the Year by the Georgia Hospital Association and the Georgia Department of Public Health for its efforts in disaster preparedness.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  Updated with video; For seven years, no one has entered the historic H. H. Tift Building on the University of Georgia's Tifton Campus while officials waited for the money to renovate it, but that wait is over now that $4.7 million dollars of the state's budget was allotted towards the project

Monday, May 13, 2013  Tift County Sheriff Gene Scarbrough has announced that his office's Criminal Investigation Division has arrested fourteen people over the past two months after extensive investigations into the crime of identity theft and other types of fraud.

Friday, May 10, 2013  The Tift County Sheriff's Office needs your help finding a missing person.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  Officials pick up a second suspect believed to have been involved in an armed robbery that led U.S. Marshals to hunt and capture Shorofsky Horton and Matanya Miller near Tift Regional Medical Center.

Monday, May 06, 2013  Earth Day is celebrated around the country on April 22.

Monday, May 06, 2013  Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have released details about a Friday shooting that caused a lockdown at the Tift Regional Medical Center.

Friday, May 03, 2013  An incident at Tift Regional Medical Center in the parking lot Friday afternoon has resulted in injuries, with none being confirmed as life threatening.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  Tift County Sheriff Gene Scarbrough reports that investigators with the department’s criminal investigation division and agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are continuing their investigation into a homicide which occurred on Friday, April 26 on Short Street in Tift County.

Sunday, April 28, 2013  Tift County Coroner Josh Hendrix is reporting that Christopher Raphael Sears has been identified as the man killed in a shooting Friday.