Effingham County News

Port Wentworth Police Chief Matt Libby said the west Chatham municipality had an uptick in police chases last year - 15 compared to 10 in 2010.

A 39-year-old Rincon man has been tentatively identified as the man who died in an early morning fire Saturday that also seriously injured his pregnant wife.

The Effingham County Board of Elections and Registration will be holding t Advance voting starting on Monday, February 13th, thru March 2nd.

Effingham County commissioners are going ahead with an ordinance regulating precious metals dealers - but they scratched off a proposal to allow up to four chickens in R-1 zoned homes.

A couple of thieves were caught on camera in Effingham county after deputies say the two hit Diamond Concrete on Hodgeville Road in the southern part of the county late last month.

Deputies responded to a disorderly person on Webb Road. An officer spoke with the complainant who stated that the woman arrived at his place to collect a debt.

Girl Scout Cadette Troop 30358 and Brownie Troop 30225, both of Rincon, were visited by Effingham County Sheriff's deputies and Port Wentworth Police officers and their service dogs.

Blair Beasley and Maya Cotton, Department of Juvenile Justice employees, show off a large box of food donated by DDJ staff.

HES members listen to Alan Kite's presentation on the "Vanishing Towns of Rural Georgia," a book Kite's son Andy wrote two years ago at age 16.

The driver of a Ford F-150 who was killed after fleeing a traffic stop in Effingham County Saturday night has been identified as Robert Macklin Carlisle, 40, of Springfield.

On Dec. 23, the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office responded to a burglary at a home in the 500 block of Parrish Road in Statesboro.

The reward is still out for free fried chicken for a year for information that leads to an arrest in the Jan.

A postcard made by J. W. Heidt of Pooler during the building of the McCartney House in Springfield about 1911.

About 70 people gathered in Springfield Thursday night to hear state tourism experts outline a five-year plan to attract more tourists to the county.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Savannah rose to 8.8 percent in December, up four-tenths of a percentage point from 8.4 percent in November.

John Wilkins married Mary Catherine Gnann in 1839. It is not known exactly when he arrived in Effingham County.

Effingham County Sheriff's deputies and the Rincon Police Department teamed to put a suspected Spice dealer behind bars Tuesday afternoon.

Savannah Technical College and its satellite campuses on Fort Stewart Army Education Center and in Liberty and Effingham counties, have not been considered for closure amid current talks, according to Gail Eubanks, the school's executive director of institutional advancement and communications.

A sign which reads "Free Chicken For A Year. Inquire Inside." on South Laurel Street is causing quite the stir.

A man arrested during a search of a Rincon gas station by the Effingham County sheriff's deputies appeared before a county judge on Wednesday morning.