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2 hrs ago | WMC-TV Memphis

Paula Deen admits to use of racial slurs during deposition

Celebrity chef and southern food connoisseur Paula Deen was back in a controversial spotlight Wednesday, alleged of using racial slurs as jokes in her restaurants in front of employees.

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Related Topix: Paula Deen, Life, Food, Chefs

4 hrs ago | SavannahNow

Savannah, Garden City, Bluffton residents among 33 facing federal gun, drug indictments

Seventeen federal indictments, unsealed today in federal court, have charged 33 defendants with federal firearm, drug trafficking or other federal offenses.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Prison, Immigration Reform

11 hrs ago | SavannahNow

Chatham cities propose SPLOST wish list

Savannah and the seven smaller municipalities had no problem coming up with ways to help spend an estimated $370 million in projected sales tax revenue.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA, Port Wentworth, GA, Thunderbolt, GA, Tybee Island, GA

Tue Jun 18, 2013

WTOC-TV Savannah

Chatham lawmakers putting together sales tax package

Chatham County lawmakers are trying to come up with a list of capital projects attractive enough that it will entice taxpayers to hand over a penny on the dollar.

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Related Topix: Pooler, GA, Garden City, GA, Savannah, GA

SavannahNow

Deputy attacked at Chatham County jail

The deputy received non-life-threatening wounds in the attack by an inmate he was watching about 11 p.m., said Gena Bilbo, sheriff's office spokeswoman.

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Related Topix: Port Wentworth, GA

WTOC-TV Savannah

Explorer Post 876 Boston butt fund-raiser coming up

The fund-raiser starts at 9 a.m. June 29. The butt and ribs will be sold until they run out.

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Related Topix: Boston, GA, Pooler, GA

SavannahNow

McAlister chosen new homeless authority head

Bob McAlister today was elected chairman of the Chatham-Savannah Authority for the Homeless with a pledge to tackle what he called the "many challenges" facing the agency.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA

Effingham Herald

Scaled-down parkway considered

The Effingham Parkway could be forging ahead soon, though in a scaled-down version.

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Related Topix: Effingham County, GA

SavannahNow

61st Street controversy reveals need for new zoning ordinance

There has been a great deal of public angst about the Avenues on 61st , the new apartment complex between Abercorn and Habersham streets.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA

Mon Jun 17, 2013

SavannahNow

Chatham County's new health department opens

Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News - Mary Nelson, daughter of Dr. Martha Fay, center, along with Chairman Al Scott and Diane Weems, Health Director, Coastal Health District, cut the ribbon to the new Dr. Martha B. Fay Public Health Center/Chatham County Health Department building.

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Effingham Herald

ECSO awaits extradition of child porn suspect

A man wanted by the Effingham County Sheriff's Office for possessing and distributing child pornography was arrested early Friday morning in Montgomery County, Va.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA

SavannahNow

Savannah man sentenced to probation in animal abuse case

A Savannah man today was sentenced to 12 months on probation and banned from owning animals in response to the March seizure of exotic animals housed at his southside home.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA, Vaccinations, Health

WTOC-TV Savannah

Man pleads guilty in animal neglect case

A man accused of animal neglect, animal cruelty, not keeping up with animals' sanitation and failure to report dead animals pleaded guilty Monday in Chatham County court.

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SavannahNow

Three charged in two west Chatham shootings

Two men and a woman have been charged in two Saturday shootings in west Chatham County, Savannah-Chatham police announced today.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

SavannahNow

Savannah shooting victim finds helping hands to recovery

Marcuss Young was only looking for his lost keys last June when a late-night ambush by two gunmen completely changed his life.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA, Prison

SavannahNow

Vox Populi: 'How about renaming the Talmadge Bridge the Ben Tucker Bridge?'

"The head of the NSA said that domestic phone surveillance prevented dozens of terrorist events.

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SavannahNow

Barton: Don't compound Tucker tragedy

Today, the 52-year-old Texas man remains locked inside the Chatham County jail, where he has been incarcerated since June 4. That's when he made an awful decision that a lot of adrenalin junkies have made here - to go joyriding on the little-used and remote Hutchinson Island racetrack.

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Related Topix: Prison, Savannah, GA

Sat Jun 15, 2013

SavannahNow

Chatham County braces for juvenile justice reform costs

Thomas Rawlings, a former Middle Judicial Circuit juvenile court judge, discusses changes to Georgia's juvenile court system during a Carl Vinson Institute workshop last May in Savannah.

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Related Topix: Savannah, GA

SavannahNow

Savannah-Chatham police investigating Saturday shooting

Two people were hospitalized Saturday afternoon after an altercation at a west Chatham County apartment complex led to a man being shot.

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SavannahNow

Chatham County jail work-release program tries to combat recidivism

The Chatham County Sheriff's Office has entered into a partnership with community development corporation Promised Land to push forward a work-release program aimed at reducing recidivism.

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