FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A new Georgia law could change the way law enforcement officials seize cash, cars, and other property if they believe they're used in crimes. Some local officials say these changes will hurt law enforcement agencies…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A trial date is set for Stephen McDaniel, the man accused of killing and dismembering Mercer Law grad, Lauren Giddings. Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke tells 41NBC the trial is set for September 9th…
(41NBC/WMGT)- Classes are cancelled Tuesday for all students in Laurens, Telfair and Wheeler Counties. Administrators with those districts say the roads are unsafe due to sustained rainfall that's expected to last overnight Monday. Teachers, staff, and administrators are asked to…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Pinkest Party on Earth made several big announcements Monday morning in downtown Macon regarding this year's Cherry Blossom Festival. Tickets are now officially on sale for the 10 day event, which begins March 15th. Also,…
EASTMAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Dodge County woman died Monday morning after crashing her car into a moving train. Georgia State Patrol officials say Dorothy Coley of Eastman was driving west on Chester Empire Highway near state road 257 when…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon police and SWAT ended what they thought was either a possible barricade or hostage situation. After SWAT, and Hostage and Negotiations officers responded, they removed a female from the home. No one else was found…
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Deputies in Pulaski County believe a missing Hawkinsville teen may be headed north. 15-year-old Madison Conner has been missing since Saturday. She's described as 5'8", 145 pounds with red hair and hazel eyes. Deputies think Conner…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon Police Chief Mike Burns will be out of the office until mid-March. According to a news release from the Macon Police Department, Burns underwent a medical procedure last week. MPD spokesperson Jami Gaudet wouldn't elaborate…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- One person is critically injured, and as many as seven others are wounded after an early-morning shooting Sunday morning in Macon. According to a news release from Macon Police spokesperson, Jami Gaudet, the shooting happened inside…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Macon-Bibb Fire Chief Marvin Riggins said the mother was not at home, when a blaze swept through her Macon home Sunday morning killing her three children and leaving one critically injured. According to Riggins, fire crews…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Armed with plenty of sports gear, fans like Kent Jordan, filled the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame to meet face-to-face with some of their favorite sports legends. "You get to find out that they're just regular…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Several local leaders are meeting at the front lines to fight crime in the Pleasant Hill community. Members with the Shalom Zone, Pleasant Hill Improvement and Macon police precinct three officers came together Saturday to voice…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- Macon Police are investigating a shooting in the 1700 block of Crystal Lake Circle. It happened Friday just after noon. According to a news release sent to 41NBC, Macon Police precinct 4 officers responded to the scene…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Macon woman has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a Warner Robins man. Jennifer Delores Washington, 52, is charged with felony murder. According to Macon Police, Kenneth Cray, 50, was shot once in…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Camellias have been a staple at Massee Lane Gardens for almost 80 years, and every year about this time, they're in full bloom, primed and ready for the annual Festival of Camellias. Part of the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - If you have no regard for your hearing, you like watching cars get crushed by huge trucks, and jet engines rev your engine, the Macon Centreplex is the place to be this weekend. The Advanced Auto…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County commissioners passed a resolution against proposed legislation to require the budget and millage rage of the county's Board of Education to be approved and set by the county government. During a special session Friday…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Police are on the lookout for two men who robbed the E-Z Mart on Houston Avenue early Friday morning. According to a news release, one of the suspects was playing an "amusement machine" around 2:45a.m.,…
JACKSON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Exhausting all chances for leniency, three and a half hours after he was scheduled to die, the State executed 38-year-old convicted killer Andrew Cook. Four protesters showed up to denounce Cook's execution and stood firmly in…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- A local apartment manager is accusing a former employee of stealing $21,000. According to a Macon police report, the owner of the Arbors Apartments in Macon says he discovered that rent checks and money orders were deposited…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Fort Valley pet owner learned that if your dog isn't restrained, and it poses a threat police have the right to use deadly force. When Darrel Aiken got home from work on Wednesday, his…
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Your birthday is a special day where you celebrate with friends, family, cake, and the dreaded "birthday tax." That's the fee you pay to renew your auto tags every year. A new state law is…
JACKSON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Georgia death row inmate charged with murdering two Mercer University students was executed Thursday evening. According to a news release from the Georgia Supreme Court, Andrew Cook was executed by lethal injection at 11:22 p.m…
EASTMAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Wednesday's blaze in downtown Eastman was ruled an accident. According to Glenn Allen, spokesman for the Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, the fire started in the attic of Soo's Fashion, which is on the corner…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT/AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted four people in a 2009 salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut processing plant. The indictment unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Georgia charges four employees with Virginia-based Peanut Corp.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Bibb County District Attorney David Cooke announced Thursday he formally withdrew the notice of intent to seek the death penalty in the case of State of Georgia v. Stephen McDaniel. McDaniel is accused of murdering and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Police responded to a call on Macon's east side of a domestic dispute, and found a woman unconscious laying on the floor. It happened Wednesday morning shortly before 8:00 on Tuxedo Road. According to a…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Georgia court of appeals has temporarily halted tomorrow's execution of convicted killer Andrew Cook. He's one of two inmates that were scheduled to be executed this week, but last night, the other inmate, Warren Lee…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- As part of an effort to make Macon-Bibb County consolidation smoother, and more transparent for residents, The Knight Foundation Wednesday announced a big funding boost for the project. Macon Director of Public Affairs, Chris Floore says the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Georgia congressman led midstate leaders in a mock legislative session Wednesday, showing them just how hard it is to balance the federal budget. Dozens of local leaders and citizens turned out for the event, held…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- State Senator David Lucas is calling a bill drafted by State Senator Cecil Staton racist. "As lawyers would say, prima facie, on it's face it's racist," said Lucas. In a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Staton…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The looming sequester cuts are only nine days away, and deadline is creating a sense of urgency for civilian workers and local businesses in our area. On Wednesday, Pentagon officials announced that if the automatic…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A judge ruled Bibb County superintendent Dr. Romain Dallamend must be added to the lawsuit that alleges his contract was illegally approved by the board. 41NBC obtained a ruling sent down from Bibb County Superior Court…
EASTMAN, Ga. (41NBC/WMGT) - Downtown Eastman looks a lot different tonight after a fire destroyed two businesses. It started just before noon today at Soo's Fashion. That's on the corner of Main Street and Third Avenue. Store owner Ju Kim…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County School Board members are starting to speak out today on news that State Senator Cecil Staton plans to introduce legislation that would remove their taxing authority to fund local schools to the new consolidated…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Bonaire man who went missing Tuesday has been found dead in Houston County, apparently of a suicide. 82-year-old Kenneth Neuhart's body was discovered in a heavily wooded area off of Old Perry Road, according…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Firehouse Subs is heating up the Dublin Fire Department by donating thousands of dollars worth of life-saving equipment. When it comes to battling blazes, a firefighters first line of defense is not water, but his own…
ATLANTA (AP) - The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency in the case of a death row inmate set to be executed on Thursday. The board on Wednesday denied a request by Andrew Allen Cook to stay…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Macon police arrested 22-year-old Deontae Markeem Coker during a traffic stop on Second Street in downtown Macon Tuesday. MPD had a warrant on Coker for a carjacking incident in January. According to a news release, an…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Traffic is backed up and moving slowly on I-75 South due to an accident involving a tractor trailer. Police are on the scene this morning, investigating the accident and dealing with the backup in traffic. It's…
BONAIRE, Ga. (41NBC/WMGT) - The Houston County Sheriff's Office is looking for a missing elderly man, and they say he may be in danger. 82-year-old Kenneth Neuhart of Bonaire was last seen early Tuesday morning, standing at the corner of…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles considered whether to reduce a convicted killer's death sentence to a lesser punishment Tuesday. Andrew Allen Cook is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for the 1995 murders of two…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - One Georgia congressman is calling on house and senate leaders to come up with a plan to prevent the automatic federal budget cuts. The looming March 1st deadline is 10 days away, but Congressman John Barrow…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- State Senator Cecil Staton is filing local legislation that takes taxing power away from the Bibb County Board of Education. A news release from the Senate Press Office states, the legislation would require that the BOE…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A newly surfaced police report reveals Sammie Davis Jr., the man fatally shot by a Macon Police officer outside a Kroger in December, had a run in with Macon Police at the same store in 2010.…
MACON, Ga. (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon's Ordinances and Resolutions Committee Monday approved a resolution that calls for an investigation into changed legislation regarding how elections are held in Bibb County. Those against the changes, which include making elections non-partisan and moving…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Former U.S. Ambassador and civil rights advocate Andrew Young was in Middle Georgia Monday, raising money for students and challenging representatives to work together. Young was the keynote speaker at Fort Valley State University's 26th…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - For the first time, since he announced his resignation, Fort Valley State University's president, is speaking out. In September, the university announced its plan to layoff employees and cut the school budget in order to…
IRWINTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The father and son wanted for armed robbery and home invasion are also facing charges in Wilkinson County. Joseph Walter (pictured top) and Joseph Lee Pagan (pictured bottom) were arrested on Friday in connection with recent…
MACON, Ga. (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb County School District says it had to prioritize when cutting 53 positions after grant cuts last week. 41NBC asked the district Friday if any thought was given to using any of the district's reserve…