Bulloch County Schools honored six middle school students on January 14 during a REACH Georgia Scholarship signing ceremony at the William James Educational Complex in Statesboro. The scholars, who will each receive a $10,000 scholarship for college, were selected from 184 eligible students across the school district’s four middle schools.
A 45-year-old woman is dead after being shot inside a residence in the 300 block of South 10th Street in Killeen on Thursday night, police said.
Officers with the Killeen Police Department were sent to the residence around 9:15 p.m. Thursday in reference to a 911 call about a shooting victim, according to a news release from Killeen Police Department. Upon the officersâ arrival, they located a woman suffering from several gunshot wounds. Officers started to perform life saving measures until paramedics arrived.
The woman, Tonya Denise Dixon, succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at 11:29 p.m. by Justice of the Peace Cliff Coleman at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Temple. He ordered an autopsy to be performed at the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science in Dallas, according to the release.
The manager of a medical marijuana dispensary hired a window artist to repaint the front windows of his store Saturday after getting complaints about his original holiday design.
Originally, the windows at Natural Remedy Patient Center Dispensary showed Santa Claus, his elves and reindeer smoking marijuana with the message âStoned Pole.â
Now the message says âMerry Kushmasâ and no one is smoking marijuana anymore. Kush is a type of cannibis from the Hindu Kush mountains.
When he originally hired the window painter, he merely instructed him to paint a Christmas and cannibis theme, Shelby Jones said.
âWe did it as a fun thing, we werenât trying to be serious,â Jones said.