Americus Police Chief James Green

Kisha Burwell, good cop Green fired.

Michael Middleton, bad cop Green kept.

Former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod of South West Georgia, still reeling from the blow of an assault on her job, character and civil rights record last week, told the Black Press of America that she hopes the travesty of justice that happened to her will now help America move forward with racial healing. She and her husband, the Rev. Charles Sherrod, a leading civil rights organizer, who actually marched and organized alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1961 and was arrested five times during the civil rights movement, spoke in separate phone interviews with the NNPA News Service. Full Story...............

DA Fachini: We Got Her!

In a court order signed on July 16, 2010 by Judge John Pridgen, District Attorney Denise Fachini of Crisp Circuit moved to Nolle Prosequi the indictments/accusations on all counts against City Councilmen Dexter Whittaker and Dr Bobby West. Nolle Prosequi in laymen's terms means that DA Fachini did not have substantial evidence to prosecute these men. She especially went after City Councilman Dexter Whittaker and took him to trial and got a hung jury. She was able to get two other City Councilmen, Jeffrey Minor and Toney Lester to plead guilty for something they did not do. But Dr West and Whittaker stood their ground until this  Full Story...............

Woods Wins Against Cheokas

As reported in last month's issue of the Americus Sumter Observer, State Representative Michael Cheokas and owner of Big "A" Package Store in Americus, Georgia hired Attorney Jimmy Skipper to represent him in an unemployment hearing. Cheokas and his counsel appealed the decision of the administrative hearing officer (AHO) that had ruled that Tameka Woods was not at fault when she was fired and should be paid unemployment Full Story...............

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