Savannah News

A recent spate of shootings has Savannah crime back in the news, but it's hard not to be cynical about public officials pledging renewed efforts.

Gov. Nathan Deal announced today that Valmiera Glass, a Latvian-based manufacturer of fiberglass products, will locate to Dublin, creating 150 jobs and investing $20 million within five years into its first U.S.-based headquarters and manufacturing facility.

First row, from left, are Ella Cody, Kennedy Barker and Kellie Ferguson; second row, Maggie Webb, Mia Norton and Ava Flower; third row, Emma Wright, Louci Thomason and Emeri Wright.

The camp organizers say the goal is to inspire confidence in children from diverse backgrounds while exposing them to a range of musical styles.

On Sunday, August 3, the 10 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, which Flannery O'Connor attended as a child, will include a special Memorial Remembrance in honor of the 50th anniversary of O'Connor's death.

Join WTOC staff on Monday, July 28, at the Bojangles' on DeRenne Avenue in Savannah from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. to help them raise money for Meals on Wheels as WTOC's own Lynda Figueredo gets ready to compete in the Chatham Orthopedics Ballroom Extravaganza charity event this coming Saturday night.

Former journalist and retired police officer David Hopkins sends this email in regard to a colloquialism that snuck into a recent crime report: I have long-since quit using my Stylebook, but when did "snuck" creep in? Wednesday's story about the purse snatcher said, "he snuck up behind her."

If you happen to be on River Street on April 7, you probably noticed a small film crew, several grills and an outdoor kitchen area set up at Rousakis Riverfront Plaza.

If you've enjoyed one of the area's hundreds of community events and wondered who that person is taking all the photographs, it's pretty likely you were seeing a member of our Spotted team in action.

He is among what local homeless advocates call the "career homeless" based on prior conduct.

The Young Men of Honor program is serving dinner to families at the Ronald McDonald House on Waters Avenue in Savannah on the evening of Sunday, July 27th.

A man in his 60's ran off the road on Parkersburg road around 1:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 27th wrecking his Jeep into the Isle of Hope fire station in Savannah.

Between waitressing at Elizabeth on 37th and working at Urban Outfitters, Julie Klaskala, 21, stays busy.

One is a lab/pit bull mix, the other is a thatchy, scruffy looking longhaired chihuahua mix.

The ghost story of an indentured servant from Ireland searching for her baby in Wright Square is one that Linda Sickler won't easily dismiss.

The tourism industry in Savannah is a money-making machine. Feeding that green engine are the men and women behind the front desks, trolleys, aprons and bars who make those wheels spin.

Jan Clayton Pagratis's heart races when she surveys Savannah from the passenger seat of a private plane piloted by her husband.

Leslie Moses photo With a master's in photography, Siobhan Egan, co-editor of Paprika Southern, takes many of the photos for the online magazine.

Participants in the Savannah Impact Program clean up the yard of an abandoned house on Tall Pine Avenue Wednesday.

Republicans are on the offensive in the Georgia Senate race, attacking Michelle Nunn as a rubber stamp for President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.