Gville woman wanted in animal cruelty cases arrested

After a week on the run in connection with an animal cruelty case, a Gainesville woman has turned herself in.

Keiana Akia Williams, 25, was one of two people charged last week with animal cruelty in a case involving a dog that was allegedly left unattended at a house in the Chicopee area. Animal cruelty case: One arrested, one at large (wgtjradio.com)

Hall County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman B.J. Williams said Thursday Willliams has also been charged in connection with an animal cruelty case that was investigated in June at a Chicopee area residence.

Williams turned herself in at the Hall County Jail Wednesday night.

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Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.