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In a meeting Tuesday at the Commerce Club where Reed spoke to business and civic leaders, he said news of President Barack Obama 's failure to include the federal share for the project in his budget has been misrepresented, reports SaportaReport.com "He believes funding for the port will be in the Water Resources Development Act," said Campos.

With the Grand Opening of the improved Bacon Park Golf Course, O.C. Welch brought out a couple of local legends to help out.

In anticipation of the huge St. Patrick's Day celebration in Savannah, the Savannah Winds community wind symphony performed a concert Tuesday night.

With the countdown to Savannah's biggest annual event nearly over, police, city officials and others met Tuesday for the last St. Patrick's Day planning meeting before the festival kicks off.

"I may be a lawyer, but I think like a criminal," Muessig says in the video. "I'm the Pittsburgh criminal defense attorney Pittsburgh criminals hire when they commit crimes."

Police found a young child Tuesday afternoon about three hours after it was reported her father kidnapped her from a Savannah day care.

Every once and a while, I like to approach a complete stranger, learn a little about them and snap their photo.

Coastal operates sixbranches, five of which are concentrated in Savannah, and one in Hinesville.

In this Monday, Jan. 2, 2014, photo, a dock worker communicates on a walkie-talkie while a ship to shore crane loads containers onto a ship at the Georgia Ports Authority Garden City terminal, in Savannah, Ga.

An expert with decades of work in child safety will join Tybee Island police Wednesday evening for an open meeting with parents and other members of the community.

Direct flights from Boston's Logan Airport to Dubai begin Monday night. In May, there'll be another new destination: Istanbul.

Savannah-based airmen with the Georgia Air National Guard's 165th Air Support Operations Sqaudron train at Townsend Bombing Range on Feb. 18 with F-16 fighters from the D.C. Air National Guard.

The city of Savannah is sending a message to the people behind the rideshare app Uber.

All they need now is a signature from the governor after the state general assembly overwhelming approved the festival stipulation.

Changes in traffic patterns and alcoholic beverage use will begin Friday afternoon, March 14, as the City of Savannah and the Savannah-Chatham police department kick off the 2014 St. Patrick's Day festivities, said police spokesman Julian Miller.

The Georgia Supreme Court today affirmed the 2012 murder and armed robbery convictions of a Savannah man in a 2006 slaying during a drug deal.

Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have fallen 0.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.33 per gallon on Sunday, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.

A Chatham County Superior Court jury on Friday night convicted a Savannah man of attempted armed robbery but acquitted him on a murder charge in the 2012 slaying of a man during a botched drug transaction.

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The team has a game scheduled in Savannah on Thursday and in advance of the big game, the Harlem Globetrotters Buckets Blakes will be spending some time with kids at Memorial University Medical Center Monday, and then they will head over to the Habersham YMCA to talk about bullying prevention at 3:45 p.m. The Harlem Globetrotters will be at the ... (more)