Dal Cannady has been WTOC's bureau chief since 1996. But he's been a reporter in southeast Georgia since 1990. Before coming to the Southeast News Leader, Dal served as anchor/news director for the CNN/Headline News affiliate in Statesboro.
"But my first job in television was at the age of nine or ten at high school football games, carrying around film reels (who remembers those?) for my uncle who was a TV news director in Albany, Georgia," he recalls. "I was paid with a bag of popcorn, a Coke and some M&Ms."
A graduate of Georgia Southern University, Dal has lived in Statesboro since 1985. A father of three children, ranging in age from toddler to teenager, Dal is active in his church and is a struggling "do-it-yourselfer" around the house.
October 10 marks one year since Hurricane Michael made landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida, leaving behind damage and devastation to several beach communities.
Ranchers who haven’t seen rain in months say this drought is taking its toll, not only on the livestock and what they’d feed them now but what they need to feed them this winter.
Organizers of the annual ‘Cleaning up the Boro’ hope to see the usual hundreds of volunteers to not only pick up trash around the community, but also to spread a message.
A Screven County High senior sat with other students to hear about cap & gown orders when recruiters and commanders from the Georgia Army National Guard entered to present her with a commendation.
Authorities from Savannah to Statesboro and beyond still need your help locating a missing senior citizen. Joseph Taylor has been missing from his home on Wexler Street since Father’s Day weekend.
Local sponsors and supporters pack the room every year - not just for the interesting and inspiring speakers - but also to raise money and awareness for the club.
Georgia Southern University’s police department is teaming up with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to track their traffic stops and safety enforcement.
The open air arena might not look like much, but to students who’ve shown animals in a wooden barn that was nearly falling apart, the new development is state-of-the-art.
Nearly 300 cadets went up and down the bleachers of Paulson Stadium until they had climbed the nearly 2,000 steps the firefighters covered inside the Trade Center towers.
