ELLAVILLE ? Tyler Tondee received some academic awards when he was younger. But the Schley County senior linebacker?s biggest accomplishment may have come Wednesday.

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Now, there?s just one.That?s the number of area teams still in the running for a state football championship and by 11 p.m. tonight we?ll know if that representative lives on for at least another week.Carrying the area banner into the second round of the Georgia High School Association?s Class A playoffs will be Region 2-A champion Wilcox High, which to date has turned back every challenge to ...

Should Savannah Christian feel overconfident after beating Chattahoochee County in the first round of the playoffs last week, Raiders coach Donald Chumley will be quick to remind his team what it has accomplished so far: nothing.

Here is how the Top Ten teams in The Associated Press high school football polls fared this week.

In the first half of their Class A first-round state playoff game against Chattahoochee County, Savannah Christian dominated every aspect of the game except the scoreboard. But a relentless offense and a tenacious defense lifted the Raiders into the second round of the playoffs for a second consecutive year with an 18-8 win at Garden City Stadium. "This was a huge win," SCPS coach Donald ...

In the first half of their first-round Class A state playoff game against Chattahoochee County, Savannah Christian dominated every aspect of the game except the scoreboard.

U.S. Army Rangers from 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, based at Fort Benning, Ga., are conducting a military exercise Dec. 1-12 at Hunter Army Airfield.

Lt. Col. Dwayne R. Smith assumed command of the 11th Engineer Battalion from Lt. Col. Paul E. Owen on Tuesday in a change of command ceremony outside Infantry Hall.

Peter Paul Marek Jr., 79, a lifetime resident of Louise, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Known as Pete to all his family and friends, he was born on July 3, 1929 in Louise to Peter Marek Sr., and Pauline Hilscher Marek. Pete served his country during the Korean conflict and was stationed in Fort Benning, Ga., in 1951-52.

Thanksgiving came a day early to the Warrior Inn mess hall on Fort Benning, where about 600 soldiers bellied up to heaping plates of turkey and dressing served with a smile by members of their chain of command.

COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - For the Donaldson family, this Thanksgiving is anything but ordinary. This year, they are able to celebrate the holiday together. Captain Donaldson with the 104th Transportation Company returned in September after being in Iraq for fifteen months.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than 130 soldiers are leaving Oklahoma for duty in support of the war in Iraq. Twenty-five Army reservists are leaving from Sand Springs for Fort Benning, Ga., where they'll help process military personnel returning from combat.

Army Reserve Pvt. Ethan Greenawalt, a son of Cory and Laurie Greenawalt, of Philipsburg, has graduated from basic military training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., under the Split Option Enlistment Program. The program allows high school students between their junior and senior years to attend and complete the Army National Guard or Reserve six-week basic-training program during the summer of ...

Last weekend, I joined more than 20,000 outraged but solemn citizens for a vigil at Fort Benning, Ga. We marched in remembrance of the Latin American civilians killed or made to ?disappear? by graduates of the School of the Americas.

While the days of a military band leading troops into battle are long gone the importance of martial music will remain part of the American Army, said the bandmaster of the 36th U.S. Army Band.

The North Auxiliary Airfield will be among several areas in which members of the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment based at Fort Benning, Ga. will be conducting military training exercises Dec. 1-12.