Savannah News

The polls are open for a few more hours, and there are several major races that impact the area, including the First Congressional District race, the U.S. Senate race and the State Superintendent's race.

From left, J.T. Carter, father of Buddy Carter, Buddy Carter, candidate for the 1st Congressional District of Georgia, and Gloria Sears talk at the Hyatt Regency in Savannah while waiting for the votes to be tallied.

CRI President and 17th U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, understands diabetes from many perspectives, including its economic burden for the nation and the emotional toll it takes on patients.

Leonardo Lamont "Scoochie" Anderson, 38, has been charged with the Friday night shootings of two men on the 1200 block of Seiler Avenue that left one man dead and a second with serious injuries.

Police are asking the public's help locating a Savannah man they filed murder and aggravated assault charges against in connection with a Friday night double shooting on the city's eastside that left one person dead.

The message from shark researchers sums it up: "Female shark hotspot?" tweeted the nonprofit Ocearch earlier this afternoon.

Mozart's Don Giovanni forms the centerpiece of the 2014 Savannah VOICE Festival, a two-week celebration of opera Aug. 1-17.

Some areas of Savannah saw almost 5 inches of rain Monday afternoon, causing numerous accidents and flooding across the city.

At a press event last week on the first day of the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Ky., Mayor Greg Fischer noted that we were all standing on a site that was formerly "junk yards and scrap yards."

In southeast Georgia's 1st District, state Sen. Buddy Carter of Pooler faces Bob Johnson, a Savannah surgeon backed by local tea party groups.

Mayor Edna Jackson along with District 2 Alderwoman Mary Osborne, interim Police Chief Julie Tolbert and other city officials held a press conference Monday at City Hall to address the recent wave of gun violence in Savannah.

After discovering fire and encircling his new flame in a tidy ring of stone, man has been wrangling wild landscapes into idealized form ever since.

Hargray Communications construction engineer Jason Ferguson, at right front, checks progress as a crew from contractor FiberOptic lays a cable for Hargray between Brooklet and Statesboro.

The chief and general manager of Southside Fire and EMS is stepping down; Wesley Meadows has been in charge of the largest private non profit fire service in the state for more than 15 years, and now, the search is on for a new chief.

The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori delivers the sermon at Christ Church in Savannah on Sunday, July 20, 2014.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are seeking the public's help in locating a woman wanted for questioning in the investigation of a fatal shooting.

The Southern States Correctional Association is hosting a summer training conference in Savannah through Wednesday and is expected to draw more than 600 visitors from across the country.

But after retiring as principal at Garden City Elementary School in 2001, she just couldn't sit still.

Luckily, no one was seriously injured; only bumps and bruises. One woman was taken to the hospital, complaining of relatively minor injuries.

There is no better way to enjoy the hot summer days than with some ice cream. Sunday was officially National Ice Cream Day.