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…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Lee ruled in favor of Monroe County in the latest round of the Bibb-Monroe County Line Dispute. According to Monroe County Chairman, Mike Bilderback, Judge Lee ordered that Secretary of…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) - A two car accident has taken the life of a 17 year old Central High School student. Nashandra Finney was riding in the passenger seat of a Mazda Protege headed south on Forsyth Road, when…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - State fire investigators are trying to figure out what sparked an early morning blaze that killed a Bleckley County teacher in his Cochran home. Glen Allen, spokesperson for the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner,…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The United Way of Central Georgia teamed up with Jeff Smith Auto for its annual auto raffle. 41 NBC's Daybreak Anchor Melissa Lee was live at the dealership Thursday morning to tell viewers how to…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A computer repair shop in Macon that bought used computers from a government auction site says the ones they were sold had personal information of city employees still in the hard drives. A police report says…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The city of Warner Robins kicked off the new year by updating an out-dated charter. The proposed changed would change of the age eligibility for people running for candidacy. Warner Robins City Council member Carolyn…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – For the first time ever, military veterans that are living in state-run nursing homes will be a charged. For the past 50 years, veterans in Milledgeville and Augusta have been staying in the Georgia State War…
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- 18 people were arrested and 100 citations were handed down in Forsyth over the weekend, after the Monroe County Drug Unit conducted a raid at the Sugar Shack Lounge. Owner Dexter Webb says the rules in…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones tells 41 NBC a body was found behind the home at 833 Corbin Avenue Wednesday afternoon He's been identified as 63-year-old Robert Odom of Macon. Jones says the body has been…
BUTLER, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Protestors were outside of City Hall Wednesday in Butler,angry over a City Council decision to fire Police Chief, Mike Peacock. 41NBC spoke with Butler's Mayor Pro Tem Barry Whitley, who said Peacock was pushed out because…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Final autopsy results released today show that 18-month old Breazia Davis died of multiple blunt force trauma, and her cause of death was officially ruled a homicide. In November, she was found unconscious and was taken…
IRWINTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Wilkinson County man on trial for murdering and robbing another man has pleaded guilty. Zachary Beck is accused of shooting and robbing 54-year-old Ronnie Rozier at his home in McIntyre two years ago. Beck confessed…
JEFFERSONVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Tension filled the room as each agenda item was discussed amongst the Twiggs County Commissioners, a majority of them newly elected. It's only the second week of 2013 and Tuesday the commissioners met for the third…
COCHRAN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The city of Cochran filed suit against Bleckley County and it all boils down to a penny. Negotiations for the distribution of the new Local Options Sales Tax funds started in June, but city and county…