A burglary in Pecan Trailer Park on Cottonwood Road has prompted multiple Sheriff’s Deputies to roll.
While the burglary could be domestic, the suspect left the scene, but a deputy intercepted the vehicle.
A gas leak in Headland led to road closures and evacuations, according to Headland police.
The gas leak was on Lindsay Street after crews were installing a new power pole and mistakenly drilled into a gas line.
No injuries are reported.
Pack up the lake ideas this weekend — multiple rounds of moderate to heavy rain are forecast to move through the region the next couple of days. A few strong to severe thunderstorms remain possible each afternoon through the weekend with gusty winds and hail the primary concerns within any of the stronger storms.
Widespread rainfall totals of 3″ to 6″ are possible with locally higher amounts exceeding 10″ still on the table.
While rain chances remain high through the weekend, we do not anticipate it to be raining the entire weekend. However, when it does rain, it will be locally heavy and could cause isolated to scattered instances of Flash Flooding.
The Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has maintained a Marginal Risk (level 1 of 4) for Excessive Rainfall today and Saturday. There is a Slight Risk (level 2 of 4) for Excessive Rainfall Sunday into Sunday night. Upgrades to the Excessive Rainfall Outlooks (EROs) remain possible as confidence increases with regards to where the heaviest rain will set up this weekend.
There’s also the potential for a few strong to severe thunderstorms Friday and again over the weekend. As such, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has all of our area under Marginal Risk (level 1 of 5) for Severe Weather for today. Damaging winds and hail are the primary concerns within any of the stronger thunderstorms, should they develop. The threat is then confined more across the Florida Big Bend into south-central Georgia on Saturday.
The easiest option to help hungry people in your community is coming up this weekend with the Wiregrass Food Bank’s “Stamp Out Hunger” effort.
It’s so simple — put non-perishable food by your mailbox on Saturday before mail delivery, and mail carriers will take the food to a hunger-fighting agency within your community.
“This is the easiest way to participate in a food drive because all you have to do is leave your donation at the mailbox,” said Julie Gonzalez, the Food Bank assistant director. “We’re hoping everyone participates.”
If you have a lot of food to donate, swing by the Food Bank on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. to donate your food in-person.
Over 43,000 people in the Wiregrass go to bed every night now knowing if they’ll be able to eat the next day — that’s 1 in 6 people of our neighbors and friends, Gonzalez said.
But the statistic has an upside: it means there’s 5 in 6 people who can help, and you can be one of them.