Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating a shooting on East 54th and Ash streets that injured Deshawn Ford, 19, on Thursday, Jan. 5. “At about 9 p.m. Metro officers responded to […]
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Armstrong State University set to merge into Georgia Southern in surprise announcement
A controversial and almost completely unpublicized effort to subsume Armstrong State University into Georgia Southern University took a major step towards reality this morning with combined statements from both university […]
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Bank on Mall Boulevard robbed
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into a bank robbery on Thursday, Jan. 5 at South State Bank, on the 400 block of Mall Boulevard. “Metro responded to the […]
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Metro investigates West Savannah shooting
Savannah-Chatham Police detectives are investigating a shooting that seriously injured one man Jan. 5. “At approximately 12:32 a.m., Metro responded to the intersection of West Street and Walter Simmons Court […]
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Savannah women set to attend Women’s March in DC for inauguration weekend
Nearly 100 Savannah women will travel to Washington D.C to participate in the Women’s March on January 21, following the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. […]
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Special Report from the Georgia Climate Change Conference
THOSE DAYS after Hurricane Matthew were quite strange on the Georgia coast. It seemed like our marshy world was standing still. There was an eerie silence and nothing looked familiar. […]
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Savannah Alderman Van Johnson re-elected to National League of Cities Board of Directors
Alderman Van R. Johnson II of Savannah, GA was elected to the National League of Cities (NLC) board of directors by NLC’s membership at the group’s annual business meeting recently. […]
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CrimeStoppers and Georgia Heritage Federal Credit Union offer reward for bank robbery arrest
CrimeStoppers and Georgia Heritage Federal Credit Union “are teaming up to catch a bank robber by offering a reward up to $5,000 for tips that lead to the arrest of […]
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Savannah Bicycle Campaign gets grant from Governor’s Office of Highway Safety
The Savannah Bicycle Campaign announced today it has received a $27,549.40 grant from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). The grant, which will continue through September 2017, “will help […]
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Jan. 15 deadline to set out your storm debris for pickup
The City of Savannah said today that the deadline to set-out storm debris from Hurricane Matthew will be January 15, 2017 for residents living within City of Savannah limits. “City […]
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Season’s wishes for the less privileged and less mobile
Going to work, to school, to the store, to the doctor, and to other destinations can be difficult and sometimes impossible without a car.
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Year in Review: Top Ten from Savannah news & politics
LET’S GET this out of the way: This is a roundup of the top 10 local news and politics stories from 2016. So Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton aren’t listed […]