Bibb County News

With an approximate $19 million projected deficit in the fiscal 2014 budget, commissioners are in the process of holding hearings to see which line items can be taken out.

A Friday morning autopsy on a 3-year-old Macon boy showed he died of blunt force head trauma.

Macon police arrested an accused burglar and alleged drug dealer in a Thursday afternoon drug bust in the 2300 block of Knott Street.

Mercer University, which has been seeking a grant up to $30 million to boost educational success in two Macon neighborhoods, learned Thursday that the federal government won’t offer any of the grants this year.

Bibb County commissioners made a slight dent into a potential $13 million budget deficit in fiscal 2014, cutting departmental proposed budgets by roughly $500,000 during Thursday’s budget hearings.

Bibb County schools’ discipline task force met Thursday to discuss the group’s efforts to utilize alternatives to improving student behavior.

Five candidates to become the first mayor of the new Macon-Bibb County consolidated government are scheduled to face-off tonight.

The lawyer for an elderly murder suspect says she'll ask a judge to send him back to jail because his family is unable to care for him.

If you’ve got a question or concern about discipline in the Bibb County school system, you can get answers today at the system’s Discipline Task Force meeting.

A probation modification for a Macon man resulted in the loss of his first offender status, which means the felony for which he was originally charged will be a part of his permanent record.

Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said Jakarie Reid suffered "a lot of trauma" and died at 1:40 a.m. in the hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

A film that documented the recovery of an unmarked graveyard in Middle Georgia has won two awards in an international film festival focused on human culture.

Appling Middle School Principal Steve Jones is mourning the deaths of his parents and younger brother in a triple homicide near Augusta, according to a Bibb County school system email.

Bibb County commissioners voted 3-1 Tuesday night to interview next week the three finalists for a benefits consultant contract.

They didn’t capture a killer or wrestle a robber, but two Bibb deputies did make a splash arresting a suspected panhandler.

As Bibb County solicits ideas from the public on its Parks & Recreation Master Plan, some residents are saying they’ve been down this road before.

In the midnight darkness of a summer Sunday in 1918, eight lawmen from Macon rode off in a pair of cars bound for a craps game.

Alleged sex acts a former Howard High School paraprofessional is accused of committing against a special needs student occurred both on and off campus, according to the Bibb County District Attorney’s Office.

No one was injured Saturday afternoon when a tractor-trailer jackknifed, closing three lanes of northbound Interstate 475 for a few hours, a Bibb County sheriff’s spokesman said.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m., 55-year-old Kenneth Burnam shot his wife, 48-year-old Diane Burnam, at their home on Lineberger Road, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release.