Finding that Highway 196 was among the worst roadways for fatalities and wrecks, the Governor's Office of Highway Safety gave sheriff Don Martin a new hand held radar gun Wednesday morning.
Burglary-residence Kelly Dr., Sept. 4 A complainant told an officer she had been away from her mobile home for a few days and returned Sept. 4 to find the front door had been pried open, damaging the frame. She said she was missing two bins from a closet that contained all of her military and banking paperwork. She said the documents have her Social Security number on them. She also noted clothing, food and a ...
Battery, disorderly conduct, cruelty to children Phanella Lane, Allenhurst Sept. 2 The complainant told an officer her ex-boyfriend stopped by, and when she realized he was drunk, she told him to sleep it off in her bedroom. Then she said she heard him using her phone and told him to stop. The offender then reportedly became upset because she refused to have sex, went into the living room and began making inappropriate statements to her. ...
The right southbound lane of Highway 84 was temporarily blocked Tuesday at about 6 p.m. while Hinesville police and firefighters secured the area around a live electrical wire that was knocked down. Workers restored the line and traffic was open within the hour.
U.S. Representative Jack Kingston (R-Savannah) will be in Ludowici today (Wednesday) honoring the Ludowici/Long County Volunteer Fire Department.
Kelli Morningstar, Midway's part-time police officer, was named chief of the one-person department Monday.
Hit and Run Brantley Dr., Sept. 3 On Sept. 4, an officer responded to Brantley Drive in reference to a vehicle hit and run to a building. The complainant told the officer he heard a loud noise outside his residence on Sept. 3 at about 7:30 p.m. He said went outside and saw a blue Chevrolet Cobalt with two men with dreadlocks driving out of his yard. He checked the area and found that the ...
MIAMI (AP) - La Nina is developing in the Pacific Ocean, and that cooling of waters generally brings a more active Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, two days before Subtropical Storm Gabrielle formed and threatened to drench the North Carolina Coast Saturday.
U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Savannah) recently announced that the city of Hinesville and Liberty County have received a Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistant Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.
SAVANNAH - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has appointed Edmund A. Booth Jr. to serve as the interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
A small fire made for a brief scare for residents at the Woodland Health and Rehabilitation Center in Midway early Thursday morning. No one was injured, nor any of the residents displaced.
A small fire made for a brief scare for residents at the Woodland Health and Rehabilitation Center in Midway early Thursday morning. No one was injured, nor any of the residents displaced.
By Mike Riddle Coastal Courier (Hinesville, GA) Correspondent riddle4news@yahoo.com A Glennville woman was electrocuted Thursday while she was working in a poultry house in the northern portion of Long County. According to Long County Sheriff's Department investigator Nickey Anderson, 29-year-old Crystal Martin was working in the poultry house with Craig Burkhalter at about 11:45 p.m. Burkhalter told authorities he heard a loud noise as he was walking away from Martin.When he turned around, he saw ...
A former Liberty County law enforcement officer, who was charged in 2005 with the theft of county road equipment, has finally had his day in court.
A Hinesville woman suffered only minor abrasions in a wreck Tuesday, according to an incident report filed by Ludowici police officer J.R. Downs Jr.
April 12: Simple battery/stalking/aggressive driving - A woman was arrested and taken to jail when deputies found a machete, sword and a handgun that were used to threaten her husband, in the woman's vehicle after she repeatedly followed and rammed her car into his on Highway 144 in Fort Stewart.
The Gum Branch home of a Fort Stewart soldier and his family was heavily damaged Thursday night by fire. The family and their pets made it out OK but lost most of their belongings.