MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A local pastor is selected to get the ball rolling on charter schools around the Peach State. Pastor Tony Lowden, who runs the after-school program STONE Academy for at-risk kids in Macon, was recommended by the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Many consumers in the Peach State are kicking off the new year with old holiday debt. Christmas may be over, but for many Georgians the holidays will follow them into 2013. Many people charged for their…
KATHLEEN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - More than a hundred Houston County students Friday took part in the county's Winter Special Olympics at Veterans High School. Skills challenges, 3-on-3 basketball tournaments, face painting and more. Special Olympians were busy all day at…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Several Middle Georgia cancer centers are collecting bags to give to foster children as a way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Georgia Cancer Specialists hosted its eleventh annual Totes to Tots suitcase drive on…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County Board of Education member Susan Sipe will serve as the board's interim president until the board can elect an official president. Thursday night, board members couldn't decide on who would hold the title. The…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Warner Robins Police Department needs your help to find an endangered missing woman. WRPD says 47-year-old Andrea Murray was last seen on January 16th. She is known to hang out in the areas of…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon Police are searching for the men who robbed a woman at the Kroger on Pio Nono Avenue. According to a news release, it happened Monday night shortly before 10. The victim told police the crooks…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The city of Milledgeville has recently taken several hits with the loss of jobs, but the residents in Baldwin County aren't letting it get them down. "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!," exclaimed Linda McKnight, at the third Eggs…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb County School Board gets its first look at a proposed reconfigured academic calendar. Members of a task force charged with developing a new calendar presented information Thursday night about a new "45 Days On,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Picketers from an Atlanta-area teachers' union set up outside the building, protesting Dr. Dallemand's renewed contract. Members of the Metro Association of Classroom Educators (MACE), stood outside the Bibb School Board building, Protesting the December 3rd…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A local auditing group tonight slammed The Bibb County School board for a "lack of governance" when it comes to spending. Miller Edwards from the auditing firm Mauldin and Jenkins presented their findings today in front…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Governor Nathan Deal spelled out four foundations he want the Georgia General Assembly to keep in mind as the move through the 2013 session: education, public safety, health care, and economic development. "This year let's concentrate…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - There is a lot of controversy surrounding the Macon Promise Neighborhood, but what is its mission? MPN is a promise to the Tindall Heights and Unionville communities. "The Macon Promise Neighborhood is the Macon community coming…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - There will be two public viewings for the late Lt. Mark Cotton, who passed away Sunday. Both viewings will be held today at Snow's Funeral Home on Cherry Street in downtown Macon. The first one will…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A shooting early this morning leaves one man shot in the face, and the other in the shoulder. According to a MPD news release, the incident took place at 1325 Triple Hill Drive around 2:30am. When…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - If you've driven on Gray Highway in the past few months, a new sign has popped up on the outside of the building sitting at 3378. It's nothing fancy, nothing glamorous, just a sign with a…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Warner Robins City Council plans to buy land in the northwest section of town and build a sports complex there in the future. In a special-called meeting this afternoon, Councilman Mike Davis laid out the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - College students from more than 1,000 miles away are in Macon this week. Their mission? Help rebuild Macon. The sound of paint scrapers fills the air outside a home in south Macon, where 26 business students…
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Georgia lawmakers are wasting no time filing a bill that would allow administrators to carry guns on school grounds. Representatives Bubber Epps and Willie Talton believe this would help address school safety and they are fully…
KATHLEEN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton describes Andrew Martin Holiday as one of the "biggest drug dealers in Houston County" and now he's off the streets. Holiday, 40, of Kathleen and seven other people were arrested after…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Residents in East Macon are invited to come out to a summit meeting Thursday night focusing on education. City council members Elaine Lucas, along with Rick Hutto and Lonnie Miley are hosting the second meeting for…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council wrapped up its last heating assistance program. Residents stopped by the Saint Paul AME Church on Tuesday and Wednesday to be one of the last participants of the Low Income…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Houston County authorities are on the lookout for suspects wanted in an alleged armed home invasion which took place near Sullivan Road on January 14th. According to a news release by the Houston County Sheriff's…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The two female suspects wanted in a case involving the use of a stolen credit card turned themselves in Tuesday. According to a news release from Macon Police spokesperson Jami Gaudet, 18-year-old Avesia Denae Jones and…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Macon police are on the lookout for a 41-year-old male, last seen wearing black pants and a green shirt. Tuesday, MPD detectives responded to a call just before 5:30P.M. on Forest Avenue regarding a person shot.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Macon councilman says he plans to present a resolution by the next council meeting to require the city's police officers to carry tasers. Councilman Henry Gibson and the Public Safety Committee were informed Monday by…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - An amended lease agreement between the city of Macon and Macon Transit Authority is pushed through full council as is. Macon's Public Properties Committee voted Monday to approve a 15-year agreement that would allow the transit…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – When President Obama gets sworn in for a second term, one student from Warner Robins will be there to witness it. Jasmine West at Northside High School was invited to attend this year's presidential inauguration.…
BYRON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A home-town connection inspired a Byron woman to make 27 quilts of green and white to send to the families of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Julie Love has cut thousands of…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A local pastor is being considered for a position on the Georgia State Charter Schools commission. Pastor Tony Lowden, who is also the executive director of STONE Academy, is in the running along with 14 others…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb County courthouse now has a new name in honor of one of it's own who left a lasting legacy on the city of Macon. The courthouse is now named after Judge J. Taylor Phillips,…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- As promised, State Senator Cecil staton filed, not one,but nine bills on the first day back in Atlanta to end partisan elections in Macon and Bibb county. Staton says the bills will be in committee for…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The traditions of the first day of the Georgia General assembly are routine for the veteran State Senators and Representatives like Nikki Randall and James Beverly, but the thrill of day one isn't gone. "It's exciting…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon's Public Properties Committee approves leasing the Historic Terminal Station to Macon Transit Authority for 15 years, but it removes one important clause. The committee voted 3-2 to remove a clause that would have allowed the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Monday, Macon citizens got the first of three chances this week to offer input on the Second Street Downtown Corridor Project. Downtown stakeholders packed the conference room Monday afternoon at Terminal Station for an update on…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Bibb County parent is suing the school district for not telling him they were voting on Superintendent Dr. Romain Dallemand's contract extension. 41NBC spoke with Thomas Defore's attorney earlier this evening about why Defore wants…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County school's former Chief Financial Officer is suing the school district and claiming a secret lease agreement signed by school officials is unconstitutional. 41 NBC first told you about Ron Collier in December. He filed…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Robins airman was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death at a Macon nightclub. Steven Holsey, a member of the 689th Combat Communications Wing, plead quilty to fatally shooting 20-year-old Anthony Harris…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 27-year Macon Police veteran died Sunday night after suffering from a cardiac event. During a news conference, Macon Police Chief Mike Burns said Lieutenant Mark Cotton had an enlarged heart and died from heart complications.…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Houston County school district is making it easier for parents to register their kids for school. The Central Registration office opened its doors for the first time Monday. It offers "one stop shopping" for…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – On Monday, Georgia lawmakers will head back to the gold dome to begin the 2013 session of the Georgia General Assembly. In Macon, local lawmakers gathered as they prepared for their big day. A teary-eyed David…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Macon Police officer, who had been with the force for more than 20 years, was found dead at the Training Center in downtown Macon. Lieutenant Mark Cotton, 49, was found Sunday afternoon, according to Bibb…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Baldwin County deputies are searching for the suspects responsible for writing a racial slur on a street sign. Over the weekend, homeowners discovered a sign that once read "Children at Play" was vandalized. The word 'children'…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Three people are dead after a single-car crash in Macon early Saturday morning and witnesses say the driver was speeding. Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones identified the victims as Sherry Sherie Bishop, 38 of Gray; Derwin…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Baldwin County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who say spent thousands of dollars using fake $100 bills. Captain Brad King tells 41 NBC the suspect bought $4,700 worth of money orders from several different…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Marilyn Wendler was only 11 years old, but she remembers November 24, 1964, like it was yesterday. "I remember walking in the back of this huge airplane sitting on the side in a hammock seat,"…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is on the lookout for several suspects wanted for breaking into a car on January 6th. Several surveillance photos have been released showing the suspects parking a 1990's silver Lincoln Towncar…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- For some people, The Salvation Army is like the 'lost and found.' The organization is known around the world for helping those in need and the groups in middle Georgia are no different. When Wayne Ellerbee's…
PLAINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Former President Jimmy Carter gave the keynote address Thursday at the first naturalization ceremony in Plains, Georgia ever at his old high school (now the Jimmy Carter Historic Center). ""There's no doubt that one of the…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Macon Police Department has Roderick Lofton, the man wanted in conjunction with a January 5th shooting incident on the 3400 block of Morgan Drive, in custody. According to a release from the department, Lofton surrendered…