Macon News

Sunday is Fort Hawkins' first Georgia Day Observance. 13 WMAZ caught up with some cub scouts who spent their Sunday learning what it was like when General James Oglethorpe camped out where Fort Hawkins stands.

After losing her job of three years as a motel housekeeper in January, Rochelle Grable needed her tax refund to help pay the rent.

George Gilbert Waterman, of Chester, was arrested at the SunTrust Bank at 1104 Gray Highway just before noon Friday, according to a news release from the Macon Police Department.

The City of Macon held a Community Day at Heritage at Houston on Saturday to celebrate the completion of the ward's participation in the Five by Five program.

Winter made a comeback in Georgia on Saturday as icy winds chilled residents accustomed to unseasonably warm temperatures and snow flurries fell in some northern counties.

Fort Hawkins is observing “Georgia Day” with a Sunday ceremony to mark the 1733 landing of James Oglethorpe with the first English colonists at the site of Savannah.

According to local weather forecasters, the next couple of days - and especially the nights - will be bitterly cold in the Macon area .

Macon police are asking for the public's help finding a woman they say is wanted for a fatal December 2010 hit and run.

Country music legend Merle Haggard is preparing to tour again after being hospitalized in Macon for more than a week last month.

According to the police report, he left his patrol bag on the back of his patrol car, and it fell onto Mercer University Drive at Interstate 75.

Police said the alleged victim admitted today falsifying the report that she was raped.

The 16-year-old Northeast High School student who claimed she was raped by seven classmates Jan.

The Bibb County Board of Education says they've agreed on a contract with Romain Dallemand to become their new school superintendent.

Superintendent Romain Dallemand's plan for "rebuilding" Bibb County's school system has drawn some early mixed reviews from business leaders, but they agree on one thing -- the public schools need major improvement if Macon is to stay competitive in economic development.

MaryTherese Tebbe, who has led the defense of Robins Air Force Base in an era of budget cuts, is leaving her post as executive director of the 21st Century Partnership.

Macon police arrested 25-year-old Mitchell Baggarly on charges of marijuana possession with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm during a felony Wednesday night after an officer responded to 3102 Napier Ave.

Raymond, 58, was at his office on Vineville Avenue on Wednesday when he saw a phone number flash on his cell phone display.

Two Central High School seniors led an energetic crowd of about 200 students in a demonstration outside the Bibb County school board offices Thursday to air concerns about Superintendent Romain Dallemand’s plan to overhaul the system.

The Peace Keepers, It's a Community Action Plan designed to help keep the peace in a community that is plagued by crime and gun violence.

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