OCILLA, Ga. (WALB) - A Northwest Georgia community is rallying around a high school senior who is now being held in ICE custody at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla. According to WALB’s ...

OCILLA, GA (WALB) - Officials have identified the lineman who was injured while working on a power line in Ocilla Wednesday. Marshal Freeman is in serious condition after he was nearly electrocuted ...

OCILLA, Ga. — Twenty years ago, Ocilla teacher Tara Grinstead disappeared. She was later determined to have been murdered, her body burned. While life has moved forward in the small town where she ...

OCILLA, Ga. (WALB) - The Ocilla Police Department (OPD) reminds residents they must meet several requirements to drive golf carts in the city. “The Ocilla Police Department will enforce the (city’s) ...

OCILLA, Ga. — There were mixed reactions to the verdict of Ryan Duke on Friday, and some people in the city of Ocilla are feeling a sense of relief that the case is coming to a close. The death of ...

OCILLA, Ga. (WALB) - The Ocilla Police Department has announced an arrest in connection to the tragic death of a South Georgia child. Sedrick Hall Jr., 24, of Ocilla, Georgia, has been arrested and ...

OCILLA, Ga. - Jury selection begins this week in the trial of a man accused of killing south Georgia beauty queen and teacher Tara Grinstead, nearly 17 years after she vanished. Hundreds of potential ...

Ocilla Mayor Melvin Harper said the hospital had more than $20,000 in overdue water bills. Workers who answered the phone Tuesday at Irwin County Hospital, seen here in a file photo from 2020, said ...