MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Skateboarders in Milledgeville are asking city leaders to consider building a skate park. City ordinances prohibit skaters to skate on sidewalks or roads, so they hope the city will give them a safe place to call their own. “Someone has said that skateboarders are basically outsiders who want to belong,” Ben Joiner with the Alliance for…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After delaying the decision, the Bibb County Commission voted to approve a firm for insurance consulting services, but it came with strong opposition from Commissioner Lonzy Edwards. In a four to one vote, the commissioners decided on BB&T to help put together the employee benefits packages for the new government. Edwards said he felt the bidding…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Macon woman has been charged with the death of her 3-year-old son. Jameshia Reid made her first appearance in front of a judge at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center Courthouse on Thursday. According to the Macon Police incident report, Reid called 911 and said her son had passed out after possibly drinking nail polish…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Five days a week, you can find 17-year-old Maliek Montgomery at the Middle Georgia Amateur Boxing Club in downtown Macon. Maliek and his two brothers train there under their father, Michael. Last month, Michael took his three sons and other boxers from around the state to a regional competition in Knoxville, Tennessee. “Team Georgia” dominated; all…
AUGUSTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Bibb County principal tipped off the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office which lead to the arrest of his brother for triple homicide. According to a news release, deputies arrested 26-year-old Ryan Jones and charged him with three counts of murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. He was originally a person…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Wild Adventures theme Park in Valdosta is all about summertime, and making sure you have plenty to keep you occupied this year. Micha Hogan and Heather Price joined us in our Daybreak studio with a very…unique guest! They shared some things to do at the park this year, including getting up close and personal with Oscar…
VIDALIA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As Congress weighs in on the immigration bill and the guest worker program, farm workers from Vidalia are taking their concerns to federal court. For nearly a decade, Sherry Tomason has worked the fields in her hometown, it’s a job she enjoys but says the farm work is hard to come by because of Mexicans. The…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – There’s an entire week set aside to make sure people are aware of the dangers of dog bites. National Dog Bite Awareness Week in May 19-25 and middle Georgia is no stranger to these kind of attacks. Just in this year alone 41NBC has covered multiple dog attacks on a local and state level. Adults and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The summer heat is here, and the pools in bibb county are set to open in Bibb County, but only three will be up and running by June 4th. The East Macon, Memorial Park, and Booker T. Washington ppols will be ready by then. Bibb County Chairman Sam Hart, says the delays are due to big…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Clean up efforts continue Wednesday after a devastating EF5 tornado tore through parts of Oklahoma on Monday. Homes are destroyed and two elementary schools are reduced to shambles. One Milledgeville elementary school is helping its fellow students in the Sooner State get back on their feet. 914 miles away from destruction, chaos, and devastation, students at…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Bibb County dispatch confirmed just after 5:00pm today that a child was hit by a car at the corner of Walnut and Second Streets. No word on the age or condition of the child. 41NBC contacted Macon Police, but they could not confirm any information just yet. We’re on the scene and will keep you updated as…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An off duty Bibb County deputy helped arrest a man who was attempting to flee from authorities Monday in Macon. According to Lt. Sean Defoe with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, deputy Clay Williams had just left the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Ceremony in Forsyth, where he’d escorted the grandson of Franklin Leland Williams, who died…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – One of Mayor Chuck Shaheen’s opponents in the last mayoral race in Warner Robins has decided to give it another go. Surrounded by supporters Tuesday in front of the recreation department on Watson Boulevard, Chuck Chalk announced he’s running again. Chalk went head to head with Shaheen in the last election in 2009 but came…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Parents of students at Minnie Burghard and Agnes Barden Elementary Schools in Bibb County begged the school board Tuesday night to keep the two schools separate. Consolidating the two schools is a move that would save the district hundreds of thousands of dollars as it continues to find ways to cut its huge deficit. Under a…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: their infant or toddler falling into a pool, just at the moment when their backs are turned. But there’s a group in Middle Georgia that’s teaching small children as young as 8 months how to instinctively save themselves if no one’s there to save them. 1-year-old Charlee Grace Olf has…
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – For Dr. Argene Claxton there’s only one way to describe the Lineberger brothers, loud. “They made their presence known wherever they were,” Claxton said. The agriculture educator at Perry High School has been teaching the four surviving quintuplets their entire lives. After four years at the high school, he is now prepared for some quiet without…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A local group of conservatives protested in front of the downtown Macon IRS office on Tuesday as part of a national Tea Party movement to stand up against the IRS. “C’mon Macon, these are your rights we’re fighting for too,” one protestor shouted. Rights the group of conservative citizens believe the IRS violated. “I think it’s…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Search and rescue efforts continue Tuesday in Oklahoma after what has been confirmed as an EF5 tornado ripped through parts of the state. Volunteers from across the nation are coming together to help victims and first responders. Some in Middle Georgia are even stepping in to help Oklahomans get back on their feet. The local red…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Officials from Houston County Schools announced that they will be receiving more than a million dollars in new software for students. 31 Houston County elementary and middle schools will receive a combine $1.16 dollars from the new non profit organization, Americans for Schools. Cindy Flesher is the Executive Director for Elementary Operations for Houston County…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — There’s beer and wine sold, but in Jones County you can’t buy distilled liquor by the bottle. “We’re not trying to force people to drink anymore than they are,” said Natalie Smith, Jones County Chamber of Commerce. Smith is part of a group of citizens and local leaders that wants to give you the option to…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Take a look around you and you are likely to quickly spot at least one product in your house, office, work space, restaurant or school that is made in Georgia. Paper. Georgia Pacific’s paper processing plant outside of Savannah has some well earned bragging rights to its name. It has exclusive technology for making tissue paper,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Macon Police Department doesn’t just work to keep our streets safe, officials want to make sure middle Georgia families have fun. Family Fun Fest 2 is right around the corner and MPD spokesperson Jami Gaudet stopped by Daybreak to share the details for this year’s event. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and Macon-Bibb Fire Department…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The folks from Awaken:Aveda Salon and Spa were busy cutting off hair Monday at Northside High School, but don’t worry parents–it was all for a good cause. “It was a combination of students, teachers, foreign exchange students, people from the community and some friends and family members of faculty and staff,” says Katherine Branch, who…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The man accused in a fatal shooting at a Macon gas station returned to jail on Monday. According to Frank Reeves attorney Veronica Brinson, the 73-year-old and his son Frank Dixon signed an agreement and filed it with Bibb County Superior Court. The family came to the decision because he was unable to comply with the…