Pedestrian struck on Albany expressway, traffic being redirected Albany police investigating after a pedestrian was struck Tuesday night. (Source: WALB) By Krista Monk | May 11, 2021 at 10:45 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 11:45 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Albany Police Department (APD) said a woman was struck Tuesday night while walking east on the Liberty Expressway from North Slappey Boulevard.
Police said the incident happened around 9:30 p.m.
The woman has not been identified and the extent of her injuries is unknown at this time, a press release stated.
According to APD, police are redirecting traffic to Nottingham Way and are encouraging drivers to use alternate routes until the scene is cleared.
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City works to keep its neighborhoods litter free
ALBANY, Georgia (Albany Herald) Dennis Goodman lost the use of his legs in a car accident 34 years ago. But people living along 12th Avenue in Albany will have a tough time finding a neighbor who does a better job of keeping his lawn and property in apple-pie order.
So when Goodman, who happened to be looking out his window at an opportune moment, saw a passenger drop a bag of trash into the ditch in front of the home he inherited from his parents, he rolled in his wheelchair into action.
“I looked out the window and saw a young lady holding a brown paper bag outside the window of a silver car,” Goodman said Thursday at a city of Albany “Operation Clean Sweep” gathering on Avalon Street. “No matter how much I work to keep my yard clean, the ditch is usually filled with beer cans and bottles, fast-food wrappers and other trash. I watched her let the trash flow out of that brown bag into my yard, and I put on
Police report: Woman kidnapped at gunpoint in Albany Albany Police Department (Source: WALB) By Krista Monk and Keshawn Ward | February 18, 2021 at 6:15 PM EST - Updated February 23 at 9:43 AM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A woman reported to the Albany Police Department (APD) that she was held at gunpoint, robbed, and told she would be killed if she didnât take the robber where he wanted to go, according to a police report.
The events:
an officer responded to an armed robbery call in the 1200 block of Maryland Drive.
The officer met with the victim who said that around 12:30 p.m. that day, a man she described as white, with tattoos all over his face, wearing a black hoodie and dark pants, knocked on the back door of her residence in the 2200 block of Pembroke Drive. She later told the officer he had NFL tattooed on his forehead and remembered that he had clean, white tennis shoes and he had on a ânice clean leather bookbag.â