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• January 23: The LaGrange Police Department will be hosting aCitizens Police Academy at the LaGrange Police Department Training Center at 376 Aerotron Parkway, starting on Tuesday from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. The academy will run for ten weeks, ending with graduation on March 27th 2018. *All Applications to participate must be completed by Friday January 19th 2018. Application forms can ...

Christmas has come and gone. Hopefully all of our citizens here in LaGrange and Troup County got a special visit from Santa and received everything they wanted for the holiday. A new year is almost upon us, with 2018 quickly approaching. Many have so much to be thankful for with everything that took place in their lives throughout the calendar ...

Troup County Sheriff’s Deputies are still looking for a local man accused of breaking a Christmas Tree to use as a weapon during a violent domestic assault. While most of us were just settling down for the long Christmas weekend, Troup County Sheriff’s Deputies were called out for emergency service in reference to a fight that was reported to be ...

With everything society has learned about driving under the influence and its dangers, the number of deaths per year due to drunk driving has gone down significantly. Still, drunk driving claims the lives of over 10,000 people per year. DUI arrests are not only embarrassing, expensive mistakes, but they can be fatal, to the drunk driver or to other victims ...

LaGrange Police have arrested a pair of teens who were allegedly involved in a dispute that led to a man being shot early Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning about 2 a.m., officers with the LaGrange Police Department responded to the 300 block of Harwell Avenue in reference to reports of a subject who had been shot. Officers arrived and detained three ...

2017 is coming to a close. For many in LaGrange and Troup County, this was a record breaking year, not just on the industry side, but for personal growth and community growth as well. Many different organizations stepped up this year and got involved in the community, with many different fundraisers and charitable events taking place. The church community continued ...

Leave it to Santa Claus. Ed Wetmiller of Tyrone did that, and he did not regret it. Due to the ultimate giver of gifts, the man with the rosy cheeks and the white beard, Wetmiller spent some time with his two sons on West Point Lake on Tuesday. The father and sons could not have had a better time either. ...

It only took two. Justin Wilkie and Heath Ivie combined their fishing talents and pulled in 20 spotted bass on Tuesday on West Point Lake. Not one fish was caught with live bait. All 20 spotted bass were caught on artificial lures. The bass weighed as much as 2.5 pounds. “The fishing is excellent, and we tend to know where ...

The McIntosh High boys basketball team ran onto the court with the No. 6 state ranking, and the Chiefs left with a 72-71 loss to the Grangers in the first round of the Toyota Classic on Wednesday night. LaGrange High put up a defensive road block in the final seconds as the Grangers held on for the win. It could ...

In the midst of the holiday hustle and bustle, and shortly before being overshadowed by Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Greatest Showman opened December 8th, 2017. The musical had the potential to draw a large crowd, with jaunty musical numbers, a familiar, all-star cast, and advertisement through every avenue that rivaled P.T. Barnum himself. With a box office gross ...