Effingham County News

The Bulloch County school board has settled the question of who will be the principal of Southeast Bulloch Middle School for the next year.

I attended the commissioners' meeting Tuesday night to gain some perspective on the Crawley situation.

An Effingham County woman was found guilty of forgery Friday and ordered to repay money that was missing from the bank she used to manage.

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.

Deputies responded to a report of a burglary in progress on Golf Cart Road in Effingham County around 8 p.m. Thursday.

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.

Wednesday was an emotional day for Joplin survivors across the country. For Rachel Mitchell and her family, who now live in Effingham County, it serves as a reminder of a day that forever changed their lives.

Southeast Bulloch High School will trade one familiar face for another. Donna Clifton, the principal of Southeast Bulloch Middle School, will take over as principal of SEB High in the 2013-14 school year.

Folks in Effingham county know all too well what the people in Moore, Okla. are going through, from the fear to the tremendous heartbreak.

A hearing has been set for Kno, a pit bull, that went after Wesley Frye last July.

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

The massive deal between a film studio and the Effingham Industrial Development Authority appears to be heading toward a groundbreaking later this year.

A convicted sex offender was arrested Wednesday after Effingham County Sheriff's Office investigators found child pornography on his computer.

The Effingham County Sheriff's Office continues to look for a Springfield man who fled from deputies after an April 30 armed robbery.

Robert Stanley Davis, 30, and James Grover, 44, both of Guyton, were arrested Thursday after the Effingham County Sheriff's Office Drug Suppression Unit got a tip that the two men were in possession of drugs.

The film studio planning a massive studio and development project in Effingham County has entered into a partnership with a major production equipment supplier.

Effingham County Fire Rescue Lt. Clint Hodges gave a presentation to the Effingham Sunrise Rotary on the services provided by the department.

The drug suppression unit of the Effingham County Sheriff's Office got a tip that the pair were on their way to the courthouse and that they had drugs on them.

Effingham County's elementary, middle and high school scores were well above the state average in Georgia's first College and Career Ready Performance Index.