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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.

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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.

WSB Atlanta on MSN · 4h

Sheriff: ‘Other matters’ investigated amid Lake Oconee search for missing teacher

Search crews and volunteers returned Friday to Lake Oconee in search of a man who went missing along with his fiancée while they were boating. Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes said a cadaver dog joined law enforcement officials on one boat to assist with the search.

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.

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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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Sheriff hopes search for body can solve mystery of 2 boaters who went missing on Georgia lake

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 instructor ...