Savannah News

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.

A generator at Newell Recycling caught fire sometime between 2-3 p.m., said security officials outside the facility on Sonny Perdue Drive.

A Savannah woman who lost her leg after a tree fell on her car is now giving back to the community after she won a multi-million dollar settlement from the City of Savannah by hosting a Back to School Extravaganza.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Violent Crimes Detectives are seeking the public's assistance in finding Edwin Fripp, of Garden City, he is charged with the attack, robbery, and attempted murder of a Savannah man on Tuesday, July 22nd.

Savannah Fire Hazardous Material Response Team worked a scene of a hazmat situation at Store Room Storage on President Street in Savannah around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 26th.

A Florida man wanted for an October 2013 armed robbery with a firearm and burglary by the Palm Beach County, Fla., Sheriff's Department was arrested in Savannah by the United States Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on Friday.