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…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Georgia congressman is making his rounds throughout his district giving a listening ear to voters' concerns. Congressman John Barrow, a Democrat who was just re-elected to represent Georgia's 12th Congressional District, visited Treutlan, Wheeler and…
IRWINTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The murder trial of a Wilkinson County man started Tuesday after it was postponed for almost a month. Zachary Beck is accused of robbing and killing 54-year-old Ronnie Rozier at his home in McIntyre on January…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The results of a fiscal year 2012 financial audit on the city of Macon are in. Tuesday night, a representative from Mauldin and Jenkins, the firm that conducted the review, presented its findings to city council.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Lawyers for Stephen McDaniel, the man accused of killing and dismembering Mercer Law graduate Lauren Giddings, asked a judge for more time to file motions Monday, because they're missing evidence. One of McDaniel's attorney's, Franklin Hogue…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Macon man was shot and killed by police officers in West Virginia Monday afternoon, after officials say he pulled out a gun during a traffic stop. The NBC affiliate in Beckley West Virginia, WVVA, is…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to overturn a law that bans firearms in places of worship. Pastor of the Lundy Chapel Baptist Church in Macon, Anthony Corbett, says guns don't belong inside his church.…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- CrimeStoppers needs your help keeping the streets safe. Sgt. Robert Martin stopped by Daybreak with who you need to be on the lookout for this week. Remember, you will be rewarded for any information that leads…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Residents in Jones County are coming together to help a family that lost everything in a fire. 41 NBC news crews were at the scene as a large blaze destroyed a home on Champion Drive Sunday…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The University of Georgia System Board of Regents will officially vote to merge Macon State and Middle Georgia State Colleges into one institution, Middle Georgia State College, on Tuesday. In January 2012, the University System of…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations are interviewing witnesses as they continue to investigate the fatal police-involved shooting at Kroger. Rodney Wall with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations said the GBI is currently working to…
IRWINTON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The murder trial of a Wilkinson County man was set to begin on Monday, but his attorney got hurt over the weekend and couldn't make it to court. It was suppose to be the first day…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A family of five is homeless tonight, after a fire destroys their home in Jones County. A call came in to the Macon-Bibb Fire Department around 7:30 tonight that a fire broke out at 3643 Champion…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Brides-to-be, grooms-to-be and even a few bridezillas flocked to downtown Macon for wedding advice on Sunday. Macon's Wedding Ring held it's annual bridal show at the Blacksmith Shop. The show was set up to allow couples…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon police responded to two shootings just blocks apart from each other Saturday afternoon and neighbors believe the recent violence is gang-related. The first shooting happened at Freedom Park around 2 p.m. Authorities say a teenage…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Macon-Bibb Animal Shelter is in dire need of adoptions. The facility has reached it's capacity and animals could face euthanasia if the community doesn't react. "We are really desperate for help," said Kristal Mahoganey with…