Bryan County News

A brush fire that that began off of Highway 119 Feb. 11 was burning dangerously close to homes and the Bryan Co.

The Coastal Regional Commission's Area Agency on Aging service and GeorgiaCares offers free and impartial Medicare counseling to Medicare beneficiaries with limited income and resources.

Editor, I participate in line dancing classes at the Bryan County Recreation Center in Richmond Hill on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

A Hinesville homeowner last week joined the slowly growing ranks of energy consumers who are turning to the sun's rays for more than warmth.

Among the recent crime reported to the Bryan County Sheriff's Office was this about a stolen car: Jan.

Subcontractors involved in Chatham County's detention center expansion project are on the defensive after county commissioners criticized the number of local residents employed for the project.

The Richmond Hill High School Lady Wildcats celebrated senior night with a 56-37 win over visiting Glynn Academy on Friday night.

With Super Tuesday just over a month away, Bryan County voters who plan to head to the polls in March to vote in the presidential preference primary must be sure they are registered to vote by Monday.

The 2012 legislative session continues to move forward as legislation and committee meetings increase.

A Bible won't likely be found in a stack of textbooks any given county student might have, but if one North Bryan man has his way it very well could be.

It's been a big week for the Bryan County Board of Education. It started off the week with a special meeting Monday to appoint its newest member, Amy Murphy, and it finished off the week with an open house Thursday to showcase the new central offices in Black Creek.

Richmond Hill's first Zaxby's restaurant will open at 10:30 a.m. Monday at 80 Exchange St.

This pickup truck traveling east on Ga. Hwy. 144 in Bryan County flipped onto its side sending two men to the hospital Saturday morning.

Three Bryan County men, Antonio Lamont Murray, Cecil Dewitt Nelson and Gary Lenion McDonald, each charged in two separate incidents of conspiracy and kidnapping, were denied bond by U.S. Magistrate Court Judge G. R. Smith this afternoon.

Edwin Arroyo Jr. is accused of leading police on a high speed chase in a stolen truck across Bryan and Chatham counties while under the influence of alcohol on October 25th of last year.

Bryan County residents breathed a sigh of relief Monday afternoon when word spread that arrests had been made in two high-profile kidnapping cases.

Three Pembroke men are behind bars after federal agents, with the help of numerous local law enforcement agencies, charged them with kidnapping two Bryan County businessmen.

According to a press release from the Southern District of Georgia of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Antonio Lamont Murray, 38, Cecil Dewit Nelson, 32, and Gary Lenion McDonald, 35, remain in custody pending detention hearings for their alleged roles in two kidnappings.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of two businessmen who were later released in Bryan County.

The FBI is still being very tight lipped about these cases. There have been at least two confirmed cases where Bryan county business leaders were kidnapped and it has been independently confirmed the victims involved are ok.