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MusicFile Productions, LLC announced the full lineup of bands who will play the second installment of the festival to take place at the Georgia State Railroad Museum on Sept.

Chief Gary Casteloes confirms to WALB that officer Larry Carter was shot by a suspect early this morning.

The marker was dedicated on March 3, 2008, 149 years after the slave auction occurred, and at the commemoration ceremony then-mayor Otis Johnson-only the second African-American to hold that office-offered up a short speech honoring the enslaved men and women whose labor helped build the oldest city in the state of Georgia.

In its third year, the Operation Welcome You Home Wounded Warrior 5K drew a record crowd, with more than 1,300 registered participants.

Corey Dickstein/Savannah Morning News Service Brewing Co. CEO Kevin Ryan takes a look at the clarity of the mash as the brewery on Indian Street in Savannah brews one of its first batches of its Compass Rose IPA on Tuesday morning.

Eyeheart the Savannah Music Scene will not only showcase nine Savannah-based rock/metal/punk bands in a benefit show at Dollhouse Productions, but it will also be a standing testament to the camaraderie and solidarity of musicians in Savannah.

A Savannah man's fight for a nude friendly beach on Tybee Island is getting some sand kicked in its face.

A grand jury in Chatham County today indicted Phell Hudson Jr. in the June slaying of another man on Savannah's westside.

Norman Koonce on Wednesday was indicted on malice murder and related charges in the April slaying of a 16-year-old and non-fatal wounds to another man.

Republican runoff opponents Bob Johnson and Buddy Carter found new sources of mud to fling at one another after the Independence Day holiday as they contend for the First District congressional nomination.

Operation Thunder, the joint operation between the Governor's Office of Highway Safety and Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police that began nine weeks ago, has produced 1,767 traffic citations and 44 other arrests so far.

Leigh's iconic image, nicknamed 'Bird Girl,' is his most famous, but not at all the most representative aspect of his body of work.

Savannah residents have until 5 p.m. July 14 to help the city in creating its new 100 Worst Properties List.

Construction work on the new $14.4 million Back River Bridge immediately north of the Talmadge Bridge continues into its eleventh month.

The air conditioner was located in apartment 501 of the high rise facility at 5100 Waters Ave. Flames were visible when Savannah firefighters arrived on scene at about 2:15 p.m. The fire did cause a sprinkler activation in the apartment and water intrusion occurred into several apartments below where the air conditioner was located.

When visiting Savannah, Georgia, if you step away from the many tourist traps -- including failed Food Network hostess outposts, places you have to line up for an hour outside in the beating sun, places the pamphlets might send you, on the water bars -- they have a treasure in Leoci's Trattoria .

Pat and Anna Troxell, Creepoid's husband-and-wife rhythm section, arrived in Savannah just a week ago, with the other guys in the band, to be closer to Graveface Records, with which the psych/noise band is aligned, get out of Philadelphia, where Creepoid had been small fish in a big pond for too many years, and to get inspired by an exciting new ... (more)

A protest began at 8 a.m. at the Georgia Ports Authority Headquarters Tuesday morning.

The Statesboro National Guard Armory, located at 18934 US Highway 301 North, is completing their second phase of facility renovations.

Jesse Jackson, a 93-year-old Savannah native, came down from Plymouth, Mass., to visit his sister Mary Murray, left, to celebrate his birthday and the Fourth of July in Savannah.