Macon News

Medicare and Medicaid service reports showing two local hospitals are the most deadly in the nation for hospital pneumonia deaths.

Macon Police want to know if you recognize a man seen in a surveillance picture.

Tuesday night, Macon city council will vote on an ordinance that will allow open containers in downtown Macon during the Bragg Jam event later this month.

Macon police charged Council President Miriam Paris's son with disorderly conduct after he allegedly threatened Councilman James Timley.

Until a few years ago, Louie and Brenda Cheek would join their neighbors for a cookout at the end of Huntington and Delano drives the first week of July.

With word that a few squares were trying to crash their party, nearly 30 Bragg Jam supporters showed up at tonight's Macon City Council meeting where the legislative body was scheduled to vote on an ordinance to allow participants in this month's festival to sip booze in downtown streets.

A fire broke out Tuesday evening at a vacant office at 305 Pierce Ave., causing 'heavy smoke damage' and 'moderate to heavy fire damage,' according to Kenneth Nobles with the Macon-Bibb Fire Department.

It's the place where the Allman Brothers Band founded their Southern rock sound, the place where the song "Ramblin' Man" was penned and the last place Duane Allman visited before dying in a motorcycle crash in 1971.

Not all good ideas come from within. That's the stance officials in Mayor Robert Reichert's administration are taking in their management of Macon.

Lieutenant Colonel Promotable Jay Macklin has served his county all over Europe and Asia but his roots and his home base remain in Macon.

A 47-year-old Macon man and his family went to a waterfall near Highland Falls, N.C., on Sunday never expecting to see one life saved and another lost during what was supposed to be a beautiful day along the Cullasaja River.

U.S. census estimates released Wednesday indicate that Macon's population slowly continues to shrink while Warner Robins' pool of people grew slightly higher.

A Macon police officer apprehended a 15-year-old male pushing a stolen motorcycle along Pierce Avenue just after midnight Wednesday.

Starting today, a new face will occupy the president's office at Central Georgia Technical College.

A Macon woman says she was attacked while making funeral arrangements for her father Monday afternoon.

Macon's three-month pilot of a full curbside recycling program has ended, but the service will continue to be offered to the two participating neighborhoods for now, officials say.

A Macon man suffered four gunshot wounds Friday night. A Macon police report says two officers were on patrol in the West Napier neighborhood, just before 9 p.m. Friday night, when they heard several gunshots.

The morning after surgery, Oliver Ware sat next to the bed in his room at Coliseum Medical Centers, wearing a patient's gown and drainage bag on his hip.

A Macon police report says two men robbed a woman walking towards her car after leaving Michaels crafts store Wednesday afternoon.

A 47-year-old woman is in critical condition after sustaining third-degree burns on 60 percent of her body in a "possible domestic violence" incident, according to the Macon police.