Blackshear residents won’t have an annual rate increase in garbage pickup for the first time since the city contracted out the service.

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Fingerprints and DNA can be vital to investigators tracking unknown criminals. As helpful as they are, however, it can pale in comparison to the wealth of information authorities receive from public tips.

Although crime is not rampant around Pierce County, there are still those who break the law - and elude capture.