Bibb County News

About half of Bibb County schools are eligible for students to transfer into this fall under a new state law, Bibb County school officials estimated Monday.

Four Bibb County teenagers are accused of multiple commercial burglaries in Warner Robins during a two-week crime spree in June, police said.

Mike Bright remembers hearing stories as a child about his great-great-grandfather, a Bibb County deputy, who was fatally shot while responding to a complaint at a craps game in 1918.

Bibb County commissioners have approved an $89 million budget that they hope will avoid a millage increase.

Bibb County parents who hope to use a new state law to transfer their children out of their assigned school zone to a more preferred school this fall may find a short list of options.

The Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission agreed Monday it would not grant a rehearing on the density requirements for a 71-acre site in north Bibb County.

Macon police have charged five people in connection with five armed robberies between Dec.

Gov. Sonny Perdue says the OneGeorgia Authority board met in Brunswick and approved $16.2 million in grants and loans for projects.

Overall reports of crime in Bibb County were up 2.3 percent for the first five months of 2009, compared with the same period last year, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

A second man has been arrested in connection with the August 2008 death of a Macon waitress, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

Arrest warrants issued Friday for a man accused of severely burning a woman on Mason Street show the man is accused of "knowingly and willingly" using rubbing alcohol as a weapon to set the woman on fire.

The Bibb County Commission plans to schedule a July work session to discuss projects that could be funded by a new penny sales tax.

This fall, Bibb County's over-age high school students and those expelled from their home schools will head to a new Ombudsman alternative program.

The Macon-Bibb County Parks and Recreation Department says it's starting a kickball league next month that will offer adults a chance to compete in a game typically associated with children.

It's perhaps a little ironic that history is coming alive at a graveyard. In south Bibb County near the Middle Georgia Regional Airport, archaeologists have been working since April on behalf of the Georgia Department of Transportation to uncover a cemetery of unmarked graves.

A 42-year-old Macon man died this morning after his car struck a tree in the 5000 block of Rivoli Drive, said Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones.

Macon Water Authority Wins 'Best of the Best' Water Taste Test Water Provider Secures Top Honor at American Water Works Association's Annual Conference and Exposition SAN DIEGO - The American Water Works Association today announced that Macon Water Authority won its annual 'Best of the Best' Water Taste Test.

Taxpayers in Bibb County might be headed to the ballot box before the year's out.

Two men accused in two separate armed robberies were indicted by a Bibb County grand jury today.

It's not clear whether the Bibb County school system's proposed millage rate for fiscal 2010 would actually represent a tax break for property owners.