MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – There was 'Slippin' and Slidin'" and a little "Tutti Frutti" at Mercer University's commencement, as rock 'n' roll legend Little Richard received an honorary degree. The Macon native shared the stage with 500 hundred Mercer graduates…
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The search continues for the body of a missing Middle Georgia State College student, just one day after a Hawkinsville teen was charged with murder in the case. Authorities are searching a two county wide area…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) - The Richard Penniman house in the Pleasant Hill historic community has been a landmark in the area for years. The Georgia Department of Transportation bought the home, which will now serve as a Community Resource Center. The…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - While you celebrate Mother's day this weekend, the Macon-Bibb County Animal Welfare shelter hopes you'll consider adding to your family. Bibb County is sponsoring its first ever adoption event and is picking up a large portion…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County commissioners got a first look at requests for the 2014 fiscal year budget on Friday. Commissioners heard a summary from the finance department which outlined requests from each agency the county works with. Chairman…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) – The College Hill Alliance unveiled a new Washington Park sign on the corner of College Street and Washington Avenue on Friday. The sign is a part of a Knight Neighborhood challenge grant that was put…
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Authorities are now searching for the body of missing college student Jmaal Keyes in an area surrounding Pulaski and Bleckley Counties. According to Investigator Todd Lowery of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the search for the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Fourth grader William Ford had never played a game of chess until this school year. Now his love for the game has helped him become a mastermind on the chessboard and inside the classroom. "It helps…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia State College Police have arrested a Hawkinsville teenager and charged him with the murder of 19-year-old Jmaal Keyes. Keyes, a freshman at the college, went missing on April 29th. According to a news release,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Thursday night, parents, teachers and even students pled with the Bibb County School District to think twice about cutting teachers, counselors and assistant principals from county schools. Perhaps the most touching of the public comments came…
LIZELLA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Voters in Macon's District 6 got the chance to hear from the three candidates running for their seat on the new consolidated government. At Rose of Sharon Church in Lizella Macon City Councilman Ed DeFore, former…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Macon man is arrested Wednesday night for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Theft by Receiving Stolen Property. 61 year-old Frank Woolfolk was taken into custody at around 5:40pm after the Macon…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The search for 71-year-old David Mann came to an end at 11:45am Thursday when investigators found his body. "I don't know what else could have been done. This obviously didn't end the way we had wished…
BONAIRE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Third graders at Hilltop Elementary honored active and veteran servicemen on Thursday by giving each of them a handmade quilt featuring patriotic squares they created. It is a hug from a small patriot and a quilt.…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) - Success has been the trend in the city of Fort Valley. New businesses opened their doors for the first time and millions of dollars have been given to the government for road projects and renovations.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - We've all heard about national signing day--it's when athletes from all across the country pick which school they'll be attending to play football or some other sport. Wednesday night, a local fraternity chapter held the first…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Students in our area are making their coins count by collecting money in loose change and donating it to charity. Macon's Upward Bound group raised a little over a thousand dollars in pennies, nickels and dimes…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Milledgeville woman is calling for the resignation of a city councilman for allegedly misusing city funds and other ethics violations. The City of Milledgeville became a City of Ethics back in March 2012. That is…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – From the outside it looks like a typical home on McArthur Boulevard, but by this Mother's Day, its four walls will serve as a hub for the homeless in Houston County. Family Promise is a…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Georgia's new report card for public schools is out and some Middle Georgia schools made a grade A, while others lagged behind. Alexander II Magnet School ranked at the top in Bibb County with 96.3%. In…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Baldwin State prison inmate was sentenced to life in prison without parole for beating and choking his cell mate. Carl Merkerson was already serving a life sentence for a 2007 murder in Dekalb County when…
ROBERTA, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) - Officials in Crawford County are trying to pay down debt for their water system. Tuesday night, plans moved forward to reduce the 3 million dollar water debt that began in 2009. It was supposed to…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) - There's construction on Cherry Street in Downtown Macon and the plans are to continue to build. It's part of a push to get new businesses and residents in downtown Macon to create an economic boom…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Former Wilcox County Sheriff Stacy Bloodsworth is sentenced to 10 years in prison for beating an inmate in his jail. Last October, Bloodsworth pleaded guilty in federal court for assaulting an inmate in the Wilcox County…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke is seeking the death penalty against a woman accused of killing her co-worker last October. Tracy Michelle Jones is accused of killing Gail Spencer. Jones worked with Spencer at…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Police, Macon-Bibb firefighters, Macon-Bibb EMA, the local National Guard, Georgia State Patrol's helicopter unit, K-9 Units from the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office, Warner Robins Police, and Georgia Department of Corrections are currently at Riverside Cemetery…
JULIETTE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Monroe County deputies believe robbery could have been the motive behind a double homicide that happened in south Monroe County near Juliette. According to a news release, 36-year-old Russell Jacobs and 40-year-old James Pittman Wood were…
JEFFERSONVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Georgia's First Lady, Sandra Deal is making her rounds throughout middle Georgia today to read to elementary schools. The First Lady's day began in Twiggs County at Jeffersonville Elementary School, where Deal read 'Who I'd Like…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Police need your help to find a missing elderly man who was last seen driving his van on Riverside Drive. In a news release, MPD explained that 71 year old David Mann and his wife,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Macon man is arrested for an armed robbery that took place Friday, May 3 in North Bibb County. The Middle Georgia Regional Fugitive Task Force and Macon Police Department's Strike Team arrested 24-year-old Kenneth Antonio…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Laurens County deputies arrested a woman and charged her with 2 counts of giving alcohol to minors. 34-year-old Christie Soles of Dublin turned herself into deputies at the Laurens County Detention Center this afternoon. She was…
AUGUSTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Georgia man dying of cancer has an unusual request at the end of his life: He's seeking corporate sponsorship for his tombstone. David Hunter is quiet, contemplative, and determined. Three adjectives you might expect about…
JULIETTE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Monroe County deputies are investigating a double homicide that happened in south Monroe County near Juliette. According to spokesperson for the sheriff's office, Allison Willis, the victims are Russell Jacobs and James Pittman Wood. The two…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Family, friends and church members of a missing Middle Georgia State College student canvassed the Cochran campus and community passing out flyers. 19-year-old Jmaal Keyes has been missing for nearly two weeks now. Police say he…
IRWINTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Wilkinson County's summer reading program is facing major budget cuts. Library officials are asking for the county's help to make up for the shortfall. The county library's $50,000 budget is made up of funds from the…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - With impending closures and job cuts at Central State Hospital, officials are doing what they can to help employees who could be out of a job. The hospital is offering a free GED program to employees…
BYRON, Georgia (41 NBC) – Peach County's new medical center in Byron has been in the works for the past 12 years and is set to open on June 13. Nancy Peed, CEO of Peach Regional Medical Center, says the…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC) – Macon and the Medical Center of Central Georgia celebrated the completion of the New and Pine Street intersection project with a ribbon cutting on Tuesday. The work improved roads, sidewalks, and traffic flow along Pine…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Jones County deputies are sporting some new technology that's helping them identify criminals within seconds. They're using a finger print scanning system called Rapid ID. Deputies ask a for a person's name, type it in, and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb Sheriff's Office is investigating a personal armed robbery that took place at the Quality Inn on Chambers Road, according to a news release. Witness reports say around 1:40am on Tuesday, two armed suspects approached…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- For as long as Sgt. Charles Whitaker with the Macon Police Department can remember the Special Olympics torch run has been a tradition for MPD officers and SWAT members. "This is my fifth time doing this…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Jones County Captain Earl Humphries says 22-year-old Brittany Grizzle was shot and killed Monday night at a home on Joy Cliff Road. Humphries says the shooting happened around 8:40 pm. He identified the shooter as Grizzle's…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - It's likely you've heard of Gulfstream Aerospace, the Savannah based company that makes those really fancy planes you see in the movies and on TV, right? As part of a series I'm bringing you for the…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Starting on July 1, Warner Robins city employees and their families will pay more for co-pays and brand-name prescriptions. Monday night, council voted 4-2 to approve the increase, with council members Mike Davis and Daron…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Milledgeville police needs the public's help to find a sixteen-year-old runaway. According to a news released from MPD, Brandi Leigh Corbin was last seen walking from her home on May 2 around 8 p.m. Major Reggie…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Artenia Lockett lost a lifetime worth of memories, after a fire ripped through her home on Maynard Street; the 72-year-old and her family survived and it's all thanks to two barking dogs. Early Monday, Lockett's family…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC) - Sgt. Billy Skinner is with the Macon Police Department Bomb Squad. He was on the scene for the suspicious package scare at the Amstar 16 movie theater and also the suspicious package alert at City Hall…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)- The Warner Robins Police Department is looking for a man who walked into the HEA Federal Credit Union on Osigian Boulevard and robbed it. Police say the man walked up to the counter, handed the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - It's been three decades since legislation gave people with rare diseases more options to live a better life, and one man in Macon is living life to the fullest because of it. Jameson Atkinson has a…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – It's been nearly two weeks since Middle Georgia State College student Jmaal Keyes went missing, now his church is assisting in efforts to find him. Members of Destiny World Church in Austell, Georgia plan to canvas…