Port Wentworth News

Savannah and the seven smaller municipalities had no problem coming up with ways to help spend an estimated $370 million in projected sales tax revenue.

Godley Station K-8 School students will remain together on campus as one really big family next year.

The deputy received non-life-threatening wounds in the attack by an inmate he was watching about 11 p.m., said Gena Bilbo, sheriff's office spokeswoman.

Effingham Health System will be celebrating the relocation of its ECB Occupational Medicine office and the opening of a brand new physician office in the next few weeks.

Two motor vehicle collisions have closed northbound Interstate 95 at mile marker 109, according to the Chatham Emergency Management Agency.

Police have released the name of a man injured on Friday afternoon while working at a construction site along Jimmy Deloach Parkway and Highway 21. Port Wentworth police said the worker's is identified as 35-year-old Richard Jones, Rincon, and that he did not fall off his own equipment and get run over as WTOC has reported on Friday.

There have been several 'gator stories on WTOC in the past month -- one with a tennis ball stuck in its mouth at J.F. Gregory Park in Richmond Hill and another behind a home daycare in Port Wentworth.

On Friday, the students bridging ceremony was held for all the students. The ceremony is essentially a graduation for those transitioning from elementary school to middle school.

Savannah-Chatham Public Schools officials tentatively adopted a $488.7 budget and a 1.5 increase in the millage rate, which raises the millage rate used to calculate school property taxes to 16.131 mills for the 2014 school year.

The Rev. Jeremiah McCarthy has been an icon in Savannah's Catholic community almost since he arrived in the diocese 30 years ago.

A vehicle collision this morning killed one Port Wentworth man instantly and hospitalized another with serious injuries, Savannah-Chatham police reported.

The children of Gilbert and Frances Callaway of Rincon are proud to announce the 50th wedding anniversary of their parents.

If it seems a little bit more crowded hereabouts in the past couple of years, you're not imagining things: Savannah's population continues to grow.

Savannah spent more than $208,000 contesting the county's proposal. A majority of that, $125,000, went to Oliver Maner for legal expenses.

A Port Wentworth man is in jail on charges that he caused a fatal hit-and-run accident in December.

The Port Wentworth Police Department has been awarded a public safety partnership grant totaling $15,000 from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety in Atlanta.

A Port Wentworth man turned himself to the Effingham County Sheriff's Office Tuesday night on charges related to a December 2012 fatal hit-and-run accident.

Two women who run a daycare in Port Wentworth were arrested after a child was found walking down the street.