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“The victim in this case left his wallet on a convenience store counter in the 2000 block of U.S. 129/Athens Highway on Saturday evening, Aug. 5. Before he could return to the counter to get it, the male 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁. The suspect vehicle is a silver Ford Fusion. Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the thief can 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 (𝟳𝟳𝟬) 𝟱𝟯𝟯-𝟳𝟮𝟮𝟰.”
About the Author
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.
