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This Is Home: 13 Things to Do This Weekend

Books! Comic Books! And a whole lot more. This weekend you're in for multiple treats, from the state fair to Civil War classics! Here's our 13 Things to do this weekend.

1. The Houston County Book Sale returns Thursday through Saturday, May 4 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter. The hours at 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Admission Friday and Saturday is free.

2. Celebrate national Free Comic Book Day at Avalon Comics in Ingleside Village and Comics Plus on Zebulon Road in Macon. That starts at 11 a.m.

Prep Scores For Thursday, May 2

Here are your prep scores reported to 13WMAZ for Thursday, May 2:

GHSA Girls State Soccer:

Central 1  Washington Co. 0

Pike Co. 9  Dodge Co. 0

Dublin 5  Atkinson Co. 1

St. Vincent's 8  East Laurens 0

Putnam Co. 9  Cook 0

Berrien 3  Bleckley Co. 2

Teen Charged With Vandalizing Laurens Church Cemetery

The Laurens County sheriff says they've charged a 15-year-old with vandalizing dozens of graves at a church cemetery.

Sheriff Bill Harrell says they suspect the damage was done sometime Sunday. The teenaged boy was arrested that night after a tip.

It happened at the Bethsaida Baptist Church on Highway 80, west of Dublin.

Headstones were toppled, boards cracked, and plants damaged for most of the graves there.

Frances Dominy, a church member says several of her relatives are buried in the cemetery, as well as a grave for her young son, who died in 1963 when he was 5 months old.

The baby's headstone with a little lamb on top of it was toppled and smashed.

"I can't figure out how anybody could do something like this," Dominy said. 

Harrell says he's not sure why the boy vandalized the cemetery, but he suspects just one person was involved.  The boy is being held at a Youth Detention Center.

Mega Millions Jackpot Reaches $114M

The Mega Millions jackpot has reached $114 million because no one has hit the jackpot since March 15.

If you win the jackpot, you can choose one of two payment options: $4.3M a year for 26 years with the annuity option, or one payment worth about $86M, according to a release.

You can play the Mega Millions for $1. The drawing is tonight at 11 p.m.

The Powerball Jackpot reached $165 million. That's grown since April 3. The drawing for the $165 million is on Wednesday, May 1.

Wanted by Macon Regional Crimestoppers

 

Macon Regional Crimestoppers says these people are wanted on warrants in Middle Georgia. If you have any information, call Crimestoppers at 478-742-2330 or 1-877-68CRIME.

1. Jacob Akeem Williams:
B/M DOB 10-23-89 Age 23 510 160 lbs.
Wanted by the Macon Police Department for Criminal Trespass.

2. Jesse Romero:
W/M DOB 12-10-72 Age 40
Wanted by the Houston County Sheriff's Office for Child Molestation.

3. Corry Antonio Dudley:
B/M DOB 07-01-79 Age 33
Wanted by the Bibb County Sheriff's Office for Failure to Appear.

4. Robert Daniel:
W/M DOB 02-23-68 Age 45 510 160 lbs.
Wanted by the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office for Violation of Probation.

5. Ryan Reeves:
B/M DOB 10-08-91 Age 21 507 130 lbs.
Wanted by the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office for Violation of Probation.

 

Oconee RESA Offering Non-Traditional Teacher Preparation Program

Oconee RESA Offering Non-Traditional Teacher Preparation Program

Georgia TAPP is a non-traditional Educator Preparation Program that leads to clear and renewable certificates for non-traditonal educators and technical specliast teachers in  the careers, technology, and agriculture programs.  Georgia TAPP is for individuals from other job fields who wish to teach but did not complete a teach education program, and who have never held a teaching certificiate.

A news release states Oconee RESA is now serving the following school districts:  Baldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Dublin City, Hancock, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Putnam, Telfair, Treutlen, Washington, Wheeler, Wilcox, Wilkinson.  For more information, visit the Oconee RESA website and click on Georgia TAPP.

478 Fund Promises to Promote New Ideas with Grants

Business leaders in Bibb county have started a new fund to help promote innovation and the cultivation of ideas.

It's called the "478 Bibb Fund." It works as a micro-grant organization and will give $1,000 to what the founder is calling "great ideas," according to a press release from the College Hill Alliance.

The micro-grant is open to all Central Georgia residents, and you can apply on the 478 Bibb Fund's website.

The 478 Bibb Fund stresses that any idea can be funded, and the founders just "want to help great ideas become a reality."