Valdosta Daily Times Features

Soldier home in time for Father-Daughter Valentine Dance

2012-02-06T10:00:00-05:00

Staff Sgt. David Smothers shocked his children with his surprise return from his Afghanistan deployment on Friday, just in time to escort his daughter to the annual Father-Daughter Valentine Dance on Saturday evening.

Leaps of Faith

2012-02-05T12:00:00-05:00

Brett and Alicia White each went to Louisiana to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He from Valdosta. She from Hurricane, W.Va. They didn’t expect to find love but they did in discovering one another amidst the devastation. Once married, they made missionary work their lives until recently.

VIDEO: Punxsutawney Phil makes his prediction

2012-02-02T15:16:13-05:00

More than 18,000 people descended on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney for the annual Groundhog Day celebration.

Company’s coming!

2012-01-29T12:00:00-05:00

When the former Cindy Carlisle and her high school sweetheart, David Neck, both of Alexandria, La., got married in August 1973, that whole summer her mom, Lillian Carlisle, taught her how to cook.

Extremely good and as close as a theatre

2012-01-28T14:13:34-05:00

Adann-Kennn Alexxandar reviews "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," "Red Tails," "The Iron Lady," "Haywire," "Underworld: Awakening"

Having a Ball

2012-01-25T11:48:49-05:00

Presenter Series seeks home run with ‘Damn Yankees!’

A hero by any other name would just be Denton

2012-01-23T09:00:00-05:00

Meet Denton Dye, a survivor.

Coughing? Sneezing? How to know if you're too sick to work

2012-01-20T14:27:01-05:00

You know this feeling -- you're getting sick. Do you tough it out and head to work? Or stay home and spare your co-workers from your germs?

When the artists went on strike

2012-01-18T11:29:48-05:00

A TALE

Stay out of ‘The Devil Inside’

2012-01-17T11:25:44-05:00

“The Devil Inside” (Horror/Thriller: 1 hour, 23 minutes)
Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Ionut Grama, Evan Helmuth and Suzan Crowley
Director: William Brent Bell
Rated: R (Gore, violence, thematic elements, sexual references and profanity)