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The Vidalia Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured one teenager on Saturday afternoon, February 7. Officers were dispatched to Lang Street at around 5 p.m. on Saturday mrandolphadvance@gmail.com after the Department received a 911 call reporting a male lying in the street on Lang Street near the road’s intersection with McIntosh Street. Upon arrival, off...

During the January Term of the Wheeler County Grand Jury, jurors returned 31 true bills of indictment – three of which charged several individuals on murder charges. Florentino Hernadez, Auselmo Duarte mrandolphadvance@gmail.com Aguilera, and Claudio Gonzalez-Felix were indicted on charges related to a murder at the Wheeler Correctional Facility in 2023. Hernadez is facing ch...