Bibb County News

The Macon Sesquicentennial Planning Committee is working to erect 10 more markers along Civil War Heritage Trails.

An early morning house fire killed one person and two others are critically burned.

In the midst of the civil rights movement, two Macon police officers fired shots at A.C. Hall, a 17-year-old black youth, killing him.

Bibb County drug investigators arrested three Middle Georgia men Tuesday and charged them with marijuana trafficking, according to a news release.

It's just a matter of time before Bibb County property owners start paying a stormwater utility fee, Bibb County Commission Chairman Sam Hart said Tuesday.

Two Macon men have been indicted on charges that they locked a 14-year-old girl in a house in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood and forced her to have sex with up to 15 people.

A Bibb County indictment alleges two men forced a fourteen year old to work as a sex slave.

Officials say a 7-year-old Macon boy is in critical condition after a house fire that killed two other children.

Two children are dead and one is in critical condition after a Monday morning house fire.

A Macon man died early Sunday morning after someone shot him while he was sitting in his car.

Macon police officers shot and killed a teenager Saturday after he rammed their police car with a stolen sport utility, authorities said.

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office arrested a man and charged him with theft by receiving, fleeing and eluding, and being a habitual violator after a chase Sunday morning, a sheriff's report said.

Janice Marshall announced this afternoon she will retire from her job as president and CEO of the Macon-Bibb County Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The inmate who escaped from the Bibb County jail Saturday night used his rubber flip-flop to unlock the door to a cell he was sharing with four other people, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

Bibb County deputies responded to a report of shots being fired during a domestic disturbance late Saturday, a report said.

Bibb Deputies make an arrest after a chase Monday. According to a news release, deputies chased 32-year-old Thomas Richardson throughout the city of Macon and Bibb County.

For the most part, the locations where 134 people have died on Macon and Bibb County roads since 2005 are as scattered as the pellets of a shotgun blast.

The Bibb County Commission has agreed on an $83.6 million plan to build a new courthouse in downtown Macon, close to the current courthouse.

It took just a few seconds to get hooked. "Flying would be something to accomplish," said an excited Rutland High School junior Adonis Parker, who climbed out of an old, gray F-15 flight simulator parked in front of his school.

Bibb County voters have approved an extension of a penny sales tax for education.