A routine traffice stop here Saturday night resulted in two arrests.Just before 9 p.m. Trooper Dwayne Massey of the Georgia State Patrol Post 30 stopped a 2002 Pontiac Grand AM driven by 32-year old Vanessa Vasquez of Abbeville.

Members of the Helms family came from all over Georgia and Florida for their annual reunion at the Wilcox County AgriCenter here.

The Governor's Task Force found a large outdoor marijuana growing operation in Wilcox County during an aerial sweep in southwest Georgia.

Five Wilcox County teens, attending a camp at the Church of God Campground, were injured Monday morning when the SUV they were riding in flipped into the yard of a residence off Union Road.

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An Abbeville man was arrested and charged with murder in the death of a Helena resident Wednesday afternoon, a GBI spokesman said.

At the age of 12, the young Wilcox County farmer Melvin Everson made his first big-league speech at a Future Farmers of America gathering at Atlanta's Sheraton Biltmore hotel.