Report: Putnam sheriff says shoes of Westminster coach found in Lake Oconee
The Putnam County sheriff is leading the investigation of a boating incident on Lake Oconee that resulted in the death of a Spelman College instructor and the ongoing search for an Atlanta private school coach.
Cadaver dog assisting with search for coach at Lake Oconee
PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. - The search at Lake Oconee for a missing coach from a private school in Atlanta has entered its seventh day. Searchers are trying to locate 50-year-old Gary Jones, who went missing after going out on the lake with his fiancée, Spelman College senior mathematics instructor Joycelyn Wilson.
Crews find missing teacher’s shoes while searching Lake Oconee
LAKE OCONEE, Ga. — Search and rescue teams are still searching for an Atlanta teacher and track-and-field coach, but found his shoes on Thursday. Gary Jones and his fiancée, Joycelyn Wilson, vanished over the weekend while boating on Lake Oconee.
Cadaver dog assisting with Lake Oconee search for Westminster coach
The Lake Oconee search for a missing Atlanta private school coach ramped up Friday with help from at least one cadaver dog.
Search for missing boater continues on Lake Oconee
The Putnam County sheriff says Gary Jones and his fiance, Spelman instructor Joycelyn Wilson were last seen on Saturday. Her body has since been found.
Search for Westminster School coach in Lake Oconee
The Putnam County sheriff now calls a fatal incident on Lake Oconee a death investigation. This as dive crews search for the body of Westminster School’s coach Gary Jones.
Georgia's Putnam County parents urge school district to implement stronger school security measures
Sheriff Howard Sills says the Putnam County Charter School System doesn't have school resource officers or metal detectors.
Sheriff hopes search for body can solve mystery of 2 boaters who went missing on Georgia lake
ATLANTA — Rescuers searched for a second body Friday, one week after two boaters went missing on a Georgia lake that draws tourists from around the South. The body of Joycelyn Wilson, a mathematics ...
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Search continues into seventh day for coach who went missing with his fiancé last weekend
Weather permitting, the search resumes Saturday morning, but Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills says it’s like finding a ...
New details emerge as sheriff calls Lake Oconee search for missing Atlanta man ‘unprecedented’
Authorities plan to deploy a cadaver dog Friday as the search expands for Gary Jones, nearly a week after he and his fiancée are believed to have fallen overboard.
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‘Miracles happen’: Volunteers join robust search effort for missing Atlanta teacher on Lake Oconee
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - On Friday, dozens of volunteers joined sheriff’s deputies and crews from the Department of Natural Resources to try and locate the body of Gary Jones, an Atlanta ...
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Death investigation opens after woman’s body recovered from Lake Oconee, beloved coach still missing
Sheriff Howard Sills is not providing details about Wilson’s death, but says it may be more than a simple drowning.
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Putnam sheriff handling Lake Oconee ‘death investigation’ after 1 boater’s body found
Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said his office is now overseeing what he called a “death investigation” after a Spelman College professor and her boating companion went missing on Lake Oconee over ...
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Atlanta News First at 7: DeKalb County residents threatening legal action over proposed pickleball complex construction
A battle over a proposed new sports complex in DeKalb County could rally from the pickleball court to the courtroom.