The widely discussed and reported case of the murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond may still be unsolved on its 10th anniversary, but it is in no way a cold case.

After about a month of being sought by authorities, the man charged with the death of an Eatonton woman in a vehicle crash turned himself in. Joshua Loyd Bruinekool, a.k.a.

A single-car crash claimed the life of a Putnam County man over the weekend, according to authorities.

The chicken didn’t cross the road last week but instead hit the vehicles attempting to pass by. A “male dressed in a chicken suit” was reportedly walking on the 100 block of East River Bend Drive “shouting and beating on the hood of” an SUV that was traveling west and had stopped in front of the man.

Local authorities flew to New York this past weekend to arrest and bring back the fourth person accused in connection with the June 4 shooting at a gas station in Eatonton.

A man being sought by local authorities for more than two years was arrested last week in Texas. And once again, Putnam County Sheriff Sills repeated his sentiments of the state’s justice system being at fault.

Two men who reportedly received a FedEx package containing marijuana from California last week are now in Putnam County jail.

Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies are investigating a rash of stolen utility task vehicles (UTVs), lifted golf carts, and zero-turn lawnmowers on trailers from residences around Lakes Sinclair and Oconee.

A Greensboro police officer driving home from work came upon a woman “driving all over the road” in Eatonton late Thursday night, according to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills.

Two more arrests have been made in connection with the June 4 shooting at the Shell gas station in Eatonton. Both arrests were made Sept. 18, one in New York City and the other at Jimmy Davis Park in Eatonton.