Springfield News

The Lowcountry Down Syndrome Society is holding Camp Buddy summer camps. These educational, therapeutic and fun camps run over two weeks in Chatham and Effingham counties this summer.

Kalyn Todd of Springfield graduated summa cum laude from CSU with a bachelor of music degree in music education .

The Effingham County Sheriff's Office and Springfield Police Dept. are asking for the public's help in finding a missing teenager.

Lauren Spradley of Springfield, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts, was named to the president's list and dean's list of Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts for the spring 2013 semester.

The Effingham County School System improved its scores this year from last year in both the Fifth-Grade Writing Assessment and Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, school officials reported Wednesday.

Dr. Darren W. Thomas, minister of education at the First Baptist Church of Springfield, will be leaving Springfield to begin a new ministry position with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Asheville, N.C. In his new place of ministry, Thomas will manage The Cove, the Billy Graham Training Center located in the Smoky Mountains east of ... (more)

Authorities in southeastern Georgia say a second man has been arrested in an attack that left a pet pig with 23 stab wounds.

Clyde McFearin, 52, of Springfield, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and obstruction of a law enforcement officer, according to Effingham County Sheriff's Spokesman David Ehsanipoor.

If it seems a little bit more crowded hereabouts in the past couple of years, you're not imagining things: Savannah's population continues to grow.

If you were a fifth- or sixth-grader in 2012-13, you are invited to enjoy Effingham County 4-H for its summer programs.

Shown left to right are: Erin Woodcock, board chair of the Effingham Victim Witness Assistance Program; Ann Resto, director of EVWAP; David Grandgeorge, board chair of Family Connection-Communities In Schools of Effingham County; and Elaine Spencer, director of FC-CIS of Effingham County.

As Memorial Day weekend approaches, it is a time to honor our soldiers who are fighting today for our freedom in many areas of the world.

It happened shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday at the Quail Run Mobile Home Park at the intersection of Quail Run Circle and Standard Lane in Springfield.

An Effingham County man who had been on the run since an April 30 armed robbery is now in jail.