Suspect charged with murder of missing Georgia couple
McRAE | A man answering a Craigslist ad from a couple who wanted to buy a 1966 Mustang robbed, shot and killed the husband and wife when they traveled several hours to buy the classic car, a sheriff...
View ArticleWork begins to raise Confederate warship from Savannah River
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Divers and military salvage crews will spend the next nine months raising what’s left of an armored Confederate warship that’s been rotting at the bottom of the Savannah River for 150...
View ArticleUGA study finds beach trash even on Georgia's secluded islands
SAVANNAH | Dodie Sanders and her student volunteers never came back empty handed whenever she led them to the beach to clean up trash, sometimes filling as many as five waste bags with plastic bottles,...
View ArticleDirector of Allman film pleads guilty in train crash death
JESUP, Ga. | The director of a movie about musician Gregg Allman pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a train crash that killed a camera assistant and injured six film workers.Following the guilty...
View ArticleFinal Allman filmmaker gets probation in Georgia train crash
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A third filmmaker was sentenced to 10 years of probation Tuesday for her role in a train collision last year that killed a young camera assistant and injured six other crew members,...
View ArticleSavannah celebrates St. Patrick's Day in springtime sunshine
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — For those who could escape work —and thousands of green-garbed tourists and locals did — Tuesday turned out to be a nearly perfect day to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in...
View Article7 Georgia sailors charged after videos surfaced of females on board
SAVANNAH | The Navy has charged seven sailors in connection with the recording and sharing of videos that showed female officers and student trainees in stages of undress aboard a U.S. submarine.The...
View ArticleAfter 18 months, still no answers in Valdosta teen's gym-mat death
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Long after Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school in south Georgia, those closest to the case remain deeply divided over how the teenager...
View Article5 dead, 3 injured in fiery crash on I-16
ELLABELLE | Five people died early Wednesday in a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 16 west of Savannah that authorities said began when a tractor-trailer failed to slow down and smashed into...
View ArticleTrucking company sued in fiery Georgia crash that killed 5 students
SAVANNAH | The mother of one of five nursing students killed in a Georgia highway crash last week has sued the trucking company that employed the driver suspected of causing the fiery collision.A...
View ArticleLawsuits say truck in fatal Georgia crash had warning system
SAVANNAH | A tractor-trailer blamed for causing a fiery highway crash that killed five Georgia nursing students was equipped with a warning system designed to alert drivers to avoid collisions,...
View ArticleBusy spring puts Georgia ports on track for record fiscal year
SAVANNAH | The top executive over Georgia's seaports in Savannah and Brunswick said Monday he expects another record-breaking fiscal year following a busy spring in which East Coast ports benefited...
View ArticleConAgra to pay $11.2M to settle salmonella criminal case
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — ConAgra Foods has agreed to pay $11.2 million in criminal fines and forfeitures to settle a charge that the company shipped salmonella-tainted Peter Pan peanut butter from its...
View ArticleGeorgia post to give Vietnam vets homecoming they never had
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — When Adna Chaffee IV returned from his tours of duty in Vietnam, coming home was a low-key affair — and it was planned that way.Chaffee recalls landing at a U.S. military base with...
View ArticleGeorgia man pleads guilty to seeking to join Islamic State
AUGUSTA | A 37-year-old Georgia salesman pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he supported terrorists, saying he bought a one-way ticket overseas to join the Islamic State group.Leon Nathan...
View ArticleIndictment of Georgia ex-judge surprised critics, supporters
SAVANNAH | Amanda F. Williams was one of coastal Georgia's most powerful judges when she resigned to settle noncriminal misconduct charges that she had jailed drug users for indefinite periods, heard...
View ArticleGeorgia woman jailed on murder charge after taking abortion pill
Advocates on both sides of the abortion debate said Tuesday that they are stunned authorities have charged a Georgia woman with murder after she was accused of terminating her pregnancy by taking an...
View ArticleMurder charge dropped against Georgia woman who induced abortion
A Georgia prosecutor says he has dismissed murder charges against a 23-year-old woman accused of inducing an abortion by taking pills.Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards said in statement...
View ArticleGeorgia to spend $10M on safety effort focused on big trucks
ELLABELLE, Ga. (AP) — Georgia will spend $10 million adding officers to the state's law-enforcement division focused on monitoring and inspecting commercial trucks.read more
View ArticleSheriff dies in crash during highway chase in rural Georgia
SAVANNAH | A Georgia sheriff died after crashing his patrol truck on a rural highway while helping chase a suspect who had fired gunshots at other law enforcement officers, authorities said...
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