Bibb County News

A probation modification for a Macon man resulted in the loss of his first offender status, which means the felony for which he was originally charged will be a part of his permanent record.

Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said Jakarie Reid suffered "a lot of trauma" and died at 1:40 a.m. in the hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

A film that documented the recovery of an unmarked graveyard in Middle Georgia has won two awards in an international film festival focused on human culture.

Appling Middle School Principal Steve Jones is mourning the deaths of his parents and younger brother in a triple homicide near Augusta, according to a Bibb County school system email.

Bibb County commissioners voted 3-1 Tuesday night to interview next week the three finalists for a benefits consultant contract.

They didn’t capture a killer or wrestle a robber, but two Bibb deputies did make a splash arresting a suspected panhandler.

As Bibb County solicits ideas from the public on its Parks & Recreation Master Plan, some residents are saying they’ve been down this road before.

In the midnight darkness of a summer Sunday in 1918, eight lawmen from Macon rode off in a pair of cars bound for a craps game.

Alleged sex acts a former Howard High School paraprofessional is accused of committing against a special needs student occurred both on and off campus, according to the Bibb County District Attorney’s Office.

No one was injured Saturday afternoon when a tractor-trailer jackknifed, closing three lanes of northbound Interstate 475 for a few hours, a Bibb County sheriff’s spokesman said.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m., 55-year-old Kenneth Burnam shot his wife, 48-year-old Diane Burnam, at their home on Lineberger Road, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Digging into actual city departmental budgets instead of outside agencies, the Macon City Council’s Appropriations Committee quickly ran into some higher costs for the coming fiscal year.

As the school year winds down in middle Georgia lots of news is coming out of the school systems.

Amy Duke, principal of Bibb County’s Springdale Elementary School, knew something was up when someone else called a staff meeting at her school Wednesday.

A Bibb County deputy killed in the line of duty in 1918 will be honored Monday at the 2013 public safety memorial ceremony at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.

Plans to start the year-round schooling for the 2014-15 year were scrapped by staff members, who said Thursday that financial and the opposition of two-thirds of the staff made it too much of a challenge.

The Bibb County Commission voted 4-1 at a Thursday called meeting to table approving a consulting contract with BB&T related to the January 2014 consolidation with Macon.

Construction started in June 2012 on fire station No. 109, located on New Forsyth Road between Bass Road and Wesleyan Drive.

Three burglars dressed in black broke through a Sheetrock wall to steal money, cigarettes and beer at a west Bibb County convenience store.

The Democratic Party of Bibb County is hosting nonpartisan political forums for races in the new Macon-Bibb County government.