LOCAL NEWS

The Warner Robins city attorney said he would pay for a cost overrun on a legal bill out of his own pocket, but two council members say he is not responsible for paying it.

Hundreds of store owners gathered in Macon Thursday for the Southern Convenience Store and Petroleum show.

Hurricane Earl is weakening slightly as it heads toward North
Carolina's Outer Banks, but forecasters say it's still a dangerous
hurricane with winds of 115 mph.

Recycling isn't just for your old bottles, cans or papers. One Central Georgia company helps keep parts of demolished buildings out of the landfills.

Fire officials says a fire at a Warner Robins apartment complex Thursday morning, which damaged a unit and a balcony, started with a cigarette.

An inmate guard pocketed hundreds of dollars after he told several inmates during a Macon-Bibb Parks and Recreation work detail to load scrap metal and transport it to a Recycling company, police say.

The aircraft maintenance company will look to hire 130 people by January.

Macon Police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet says a police recruit unintentionally shot herself in the leg Thursday morning during firearms training.

Wednesday morning, two more men joined the race for the Ward 3 Post 2 seat.

The Dodge County Sheriff's office says two men robbed the Citizens Bank & Trust in Chauncey Thursday.

Jose Garcia spent 10 days in the Medical Center of Central Georgia after allegedly shooting Maria Garcia on Aug. 23. He was released Wednesday night, arrested by Warner Robins police and charged with felony murder, according to a police news release.

The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help in identifying a man who robbed a north Macon CVS.

Decades after their service in the Armed Forces during World War II, France honored four US veterans with its highest honor.

The complaint to the state said Greg Stone, his father and wife all filled out absentee ballots for voters and then took the ballots away.

A Snellville dumpster company says American Shingle owes them about $70,000 for dumpsters it put on work sites where American Shingle was supposed to repair roofing or siding.

Mary Persons started its season off with a 27-24 road win over rival Jackson.

An outside mediator will charge the city more than $12,000 to investigate complaints against the police department, and city attorney Jim Elliott says he'll pay more than $500 of that out of his own pocket.

Houston County froze hiring for new positions this budget year and last. County administrator Steve Engle says that and other cost cutting measures are saving money.

Macon Mayor Robert Reichert joined family and friends of children suffering from cancer on Wednesday afternoon and recognized September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

The state tax reform council will conduct a public hearing from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, at Macon State College.