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Macon Pride hosts 'Dine Out, Shop Out'
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The second annual Macon Pride Dine Out, Shop Out event was held on Tuesday, June 28. 20 local businesses are supporting the cause this year by…
Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful celebrates 40 years of service
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful is celebrating 40 years of beautification projects. The organization held a luncheon Tuesday to honor several groups that have played a part…
Middle Georgia mothers protest for their breastfeeding rights
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Several middle Georgia mothers are expressing concerns over their right to breastfeed in public. The mothers hosted a 'Nurse-In' protest in front of Southern Pines…
Former Mercer Law dean explains potential impact of overturning of Roe V. Wade
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A former Mercer University School of Law Dean is explaining what people may see in the future following the Supreme Court's recent overturning of…
Pleasant Hill project to bring solutions to neighborhood
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Georgetown Beeck Center for Social Impact and the Center for Public Impact recently announced the "Opportunity Project." Detroit, Michigan, Long Beach, California, Macon-Bibb,…
Warner Robins native wins Miss Georgia, shares goals for year of service
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Miss Georgia 2022 is a familiar face who is also making history. Miss Capital City’s Kelsey Hollis is a Warner Robins native. And she earned the job of serving as Miss Georgia 2022. She is…
Senator Ossoff announces push to support poultry scientists of UGA, FVSU
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff has announced a push to get more resources for UGA and Fort Valley State University. The support comes in order to empower the schools to train the next generation of poultry…
Fiber internet on its way to middle Georgia through new partnership
(41NBC/WMGT) -- Ocmulgee EMC is planning to partner with Conexon Connect in order to provide more Georgians in rural areas high-speed fiber broadband service. According to…
Scattered storms to stick around Middle Georgia this evening
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Today is the first day of summer and highs are likely to eclipse 100 degrees in many Middle Georgia locations. This Evening Isolated storms began to…
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Epstein
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The sentencing Tuesday was the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Epstein and Maxwell…
Baldwin County School District to buy school supplies for students
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The Baldwin County School District is looking to help families by purchasing basic school supplies for all students for the 2022-2023 school year.…
Hooked on Science: Fourth of July rocket
(41NBC/WMGT) — Science Guy Jason Lindsey shows us this week a new way to launch decorations! Warning do not try this without safety glasses and a parent! Using a…
Morning Business Report: Only 20% of IBM's U.S. employees are in the office for three days a week
In the United States, the $100 billion per year lottery business has been mostly offline and cash-based. Last year, less than 5 percent of those sales came from online transactions. Only 20% of…
Restaurant Report Card: Food service inspection scores June 20-24
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Here are Middle Georgia's food service health inspection scores from the Georgia Department of Public Health between Monday, June 20 and Friday, June 24,…
Weekend shootings in Warner Robins leave 2 dead, 2 injured
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Two people are dead following separate shootings within hours of each other this weekend in Warner Robins. One of them happened…
Reactions to overturning of Roe v. Wade continue
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) —Americans and Georgians are still reacting to the overturning of Roe v. Wade last week. Several organizations are reacting to the ruling, including Georgia Right to…
Rain hangs around this week
We got our first round of showers and storms for the week across parts of Middle Georgia this afternoon. These storms will be setting the stage for a pretty rainy week…
Georgia DNR offers water safety tips following 2 weekend drownings
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - After two drownings in Macon over the weekend, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is reminding people how to stay safe in the…
UPDATE: Man arrested for Cru Lounge homicide, more arrests expected
UPDATE: The Warner Robins Police say they made an arrest Tuesday afternoon in connection to the shooting at Cru Lounge. According to WRPD, around 4:45 p.m., officers and…
Robins Air Force Base welcomes new commander
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Robins Air Force Base has a new commander. Brigadier General Jon A. Eberlan is taking over as Commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, a position previously…
Two women arrested at hotel in Monroe County
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) —Two women were arrested in Monroe County on Monday, after a tip leads deputies to a hotel room. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says investigators received…
Warner Robins mayor addresses recent violence
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Warner Robins Mayor LaRhonda Patrick is addressing three recent homicides that happened within 48 hours. Patrick said in a news conference Tuesday that the senseless killings…
Macon Pride hosts 'Dine Out, Shop Out'
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The second annual Macon Pride Dine Out, Shop Out event was held on Tuesday, June 28. 20 local businesses are supporting the cause this year by…
Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful celebrates 40 years of service
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Keep Dublin-Laurens Beautiful is celebrating 40 years of beautification projects. The organization held a luncheon Tuesday to honor several groups that have played a part…
Middle Georgia mothers protest for their breastfeeding rights
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Several middle Georgia mothers are expressing concerns over their right to breastfeed in public. The mothers hosted a 'Nurse-In' protest in front of Southern Pines…
Former Mercer Law dean explains potential impact of overturning of Roe V. Wade
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A former Mercer University School of Law Dean is explaining what people may see in the future following the Supreme Court's recent overturning of…
Pleasant Hill project to bring solutions to neighborhood
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Georgetown Beeck Center for Social Impact and the Center for Public Impact recently announced the "Opportunity Project." Detroit, Michigan, Long Beach, California, Macon-Bibb,…
Warner Robins native wins Miss Georgia, shares goals for year of service
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Miss Georgia 2022 is a familiar face who is also making history. Miss Capital City’s Kelsey Hollis is a Warner Robins native. And she earned the job of serving as Miss Georgia 2022. She is…
Scattered storms to stick around Middle Georgia this evening
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Today is the first day of summer and highs are likely to eclipse 100 degrees in many Middle Georgia locations. This Evening Isolated storms began to…
Restaurant Report Card: Food service inspection scores June 20-24
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Here are Middle Georgia's food service health inspection scores from the Georgia Department of Public Health between Monday, June 20 and Friday, June 24,…
Weekend shootings in Warner Robins leave 2 dead, 2 injured
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— Two people are dead following separate shootings within hours of each other this weekend in Warner Robins. One of them happened…
Reactions to overturning of Roe v. Wade continue
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) —Americans and Georgians are still reacting to the overturning of Roe v. Wade last week. Several organizations are reacting to the ruling, including Georgia Right to…
Rain hangs around this week
We got our first round of showers and storms for the week across parts of Middle Georgia this afternoon. These storms will be setting the stage for a pretty rainy week…
Georgia DNR offers water safety tips following 2 weekend drownings
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - After two drownings in Macon over the weekend, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is reminding people how to stay safe in the…
Bibb County Sheriff's Office investigating three deadly weekend shootings
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Three people are dead after separate shootings over the weekend. On Friday, 32-year-old Dontarrius Durell Holloway was killed at a home on Wynnwood Drive.…
Community Ambulance starts 'Firearm Safety Campaign'
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Community Ambulance, a Macon non-profit EMS provider, says there have been more than 100 firearm-related injuries in its service area this year. To bring awareness to the…
Warner Robins native wins Miss Georgia, shares goals for year of service
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Miss Georgia 2022 is a familiar face who is also making history. Miss Capital City’s Kelsey Hollis is a Warner Robins native. And she earned the job of serving as Miss Georgia 2022. She is…
Senator Ossoff announces push to support poultry scientists of UGA, FVSU
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff has announced a push to get more resources for UGA and Fort Valley State University. The support comes in order to empower the schools to train the next generation of poultry…
Fiber internet on its way to middle Georgia through new partnership
(41NBC/WMGT) -- Ocmulgee EMC is planning to partner with Conexon Connect in order to provide more Georgians in rural areas high-speed fiber broadband service. According to…
Ludacris' manager and 2 others shot, 1 fatally, in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — A man was killed and two others were injured, including rap star Ludacris’ manager, in a parking lot shooting in an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta on Sunday night. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the men…
Reactions to overturning of Roe v. Wade continue
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) —Americans and Georgians are still reacting to the overturning of Roe v. Wade last week. Several organizations are reacting to the ruling, including Georgia Right to…
3-Year-old dies in hot car in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A 3-year-old boy died inside of a hot car on Sunday when his grandmother took him and his siblings to go to church on Sunday. According to Kids and Car Safety, the child's grandmother didn't realize…
Ricky Dubose found unresponsive in cell, investigators look into apparent suicide
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The Georgia Department of Corrections is investigating the death of inmate Ricky Dubose, who was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday afternoon. Dubose was being held at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia,…
Murder conviction overturned in Georgia hot car death case
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has overturned the murder and child cruelty convictions against a man whose toddler son died after he left him in a hot car for hours. The Georgia Supreme Court opinion released Wednesday says the…
WATCH LIVE: January 6 Committee Hearing on Capitol Attack
Click here to watch on a mobile device. WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is set to hear from local officials who fended off Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel investigating the…
UPDATE: Jury sentences Dubose to death
UPDATE (06/16/2022) -- T. Wright Barksdale III, the District Attorney for Jones County and the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit tells 41NBC that the jury sentenced Ricky Dubose to death Thursday afternoon. EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prisoner has been found…
Governor Kemp announces purchase of Megasite in Peach County
(41NBC/WMGT) -- Governor Brian Kemp announced the purchase of an over 1,100 acre economic development site between the state of Georgia and the Development Authority of Peach County…
GEICO celebrates Juneteenth by donating $25,000
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— GEICO is celebrating Juneteenth a little early by donating $25,000 to the Urban League of Greater Atlanta. This is the first time GEICO has celebrated Juneteenth, after the…
Atlanta-based Agile Cold Storage to build facility in Macon
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- An Atlanta-based company is working to build its 3rd cold storage warehouse in Macon, as an effort to invest into construction to support domestic…
Woman hospitalized, granddaughter drowns on fishing trip
LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman remains in critical condition, two days after she was injured and her granddaughter drowned while they were fishing on a lake. Sgt. Stewart Smith of the Troup County Sheriff’s Office says Monday that…
Georgia College will continue sexual assault nurse examiners training
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Specialized nurses are now working across Georgia as sexual assault nurse examiners thanks to a $803,000 grant that is now ending. The grant allowed more than a hundred Georgia nurses to receive extra training to conduct…
More charges for man acquitted of murdering Georgia teacher
FITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — A south Georgia man has been indicted on new charges after a jury last month acquitted him of murdering a teacher in 2005. Ryan Duke was acquitted of more serious charges but convicted of concealing the…
Middle Georgia Family Rehab ordered to pay over $9.6 million after submitting hundreds of fraudulent claims
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Macon health care facility has been ordered by the court to pay over $9.6 million in damages and penalties for submitting hundreds of fraudulent TRICARE and Medicaid claims. According to a release from the United…
Trump election probe grand jury to hear from Raffensperger
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's top elections official was expected to appear Thursday before a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was…
Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump White House aide, now in spotlight
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after completing a White House summer internship, Cassidy Hutchinson was in the room where the president’s top aides debated how they could overturn his election loss. The 25-year-old former aide to chief of staff Mark…
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Epstein
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The sentencing Tuesday was the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Epstein and Maxwell…
50 migrants die after trailer abandoned in San Antonio heat
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Fifty people have died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in the sweltering Texas heat. It's the latest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.…
Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure. Memes and…
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. Friday’s outcome overturning Roe v. Wade…
FDA bans Juul e-cigarettes tied to teen vaping surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health officials have ordered vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market. It's the biggest blow yet to the embattled company that is widely blamed for sparking a surge in teen vaping. The…
Supreme Court strikes New York gun law in major ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down a New York gun law in a ruling expected to directly impact half a dozen other populous states. The justices’ 6-3 decision is expected to allow more people to legally carry…
Yellowstone park reopens after changes wrought by flood
WAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Several thousand cars, trucks and recreational vehicles are backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following destructive floods that closed the park last week. Park managers raised the…
Man found not responsible for Times Square vehicle rampage
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who used his car to hit pedestrians in Times Square has been cleared of responsibility because of mental illness. The verdict came Wednesday at the New York City trial of Richard Rojas. The jury…
'Nowhere I feel safe': Election officials recount threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Georgia election worker in gripping testimony has told the House Jan. 6 committee about the onslaught of threats that she and her family received after former President Trump and his allies falsely accused her and…
Jan. 6 panel in possession of new Trump documentary footage
WASHINGTON (AP) — New footage of former President Donald Trump and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6, 2021, is now in the possession of the House committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol. The revelation…
Walmart expands health services to address racial inequality
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to use a doula, a person trained to assist women during pregnancies, in an effort to address racial inequities in maternal care. After first offering doulas…
US pools close, go without lifeguards amid labor shortage
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis typically fills 17 pools each year, but with a national lifeguard shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, just five are open this summer. The American Lifeguard Association estimates one-third of pools in the United States are…
We fought Trump pressure, GOP state officials tell 1/6 panel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has opened, hearing from state and local officials who fended off Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel investigating the U.S. Capitol attack resumed Tuesday with testimony from…
Broadway theaters drop their mask mandate starting in July
NEW YORK (AP) — In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July. The Broadway League announced Tuesday that mask-wearing will be optional next…
Texas top cop: Uvalde police response an 'abject failure'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says three minutes after a gunman entered a school where he slaughtered 19 elementary students and two teachers there was sufficient armed law enforcement on scene to…
Happy the elephant isn't a person, top New York court rules
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s top court has rejected a closely watched effort to free Happy the elephant from the Bronx Zoo. The state Court of Appeals decided Tuesday that she does not meet the definition of a person…
Western wildfires force evacuations in Arizona, California
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Wildfires burning throughout the American West are forcing evacuations as crews deal with more hot, windy and dry conditions. Residents were ordered to flee remote homes near a wildfire in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles.…
