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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)

There is still no word on a suspect after a shooting late Sunday in Savannah sent one man to the hospital.

ROBIN TRIMARCHI/rtrimarchi@ledger-enquirer.comMorgan Kendrick, president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, oversees 4,000 employees statewide.

Calling all weather watchers. A nationwide network of backyard weather observers wants you to join them in measuring and mapping precipitation.

Savannah's Irish groups surrounded the Celtic Cross with their banners Sunday before the ceremony began in Emmet Park.

Organizers of the event received the honor at the at the Southeast Festivals and Events Association's Kaleidoscope Awards, at the Hilton Savannah DeSoto in Savannah, Georgia on Feb. 18. The ceremony was held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Southeast Festivals and Events Conference.

The absence of funding for the deepening of the Savannah River shipping channel in President Barack Obama's budget took on political significance in Georgia when it was released Tuesday.

When Madeleine Crawford has her blood drawn at the doctor's office, she never looks away.

We invite newcomers to dinner. We chitchat as we walk our dogs in the neighborhood.

One afternoon last week, I spent some time wandering around the outside of the Savannah Pharmacy building on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.