Russ Bynum

January 27, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The new $1.1 trillion federal spending plan signed into law contains just a small amount of funding for deepening the busy shipping channel to the Port of Savannah to make room for supersized cargo ships.

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5 minute read

January 08, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A former Georgia banker accused of stealing millions from investors before vanishing for 18 months pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal bank fraud charges and agreed to remain jailed without bond pending trial.

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December 06, 2013 | Daily Report Online

An Army sergeant charged with shooting a teenage girl in the head while another soldier killed her boyfriend outside Fort Stewart two years ago suffers from brain injuries and post-traumatic stress after serving in combat in Afghanistan, the sergeant's defense attorney said Friday.

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November 01, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Dressed in orange jailhouse garb rather than the suit he wore at trial, Guy Heinze Jr. bowed his head as a judge sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole. A quirk of legal maneuvering had spared Heinze from a possible death sentence for the 2009 beating deaths of his father and seven others.

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4 minute read

October 25, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A jury was ordered Friday to start deliberations from scratch on its third day of weighing evidence in the trial of a Georgia man charged with killing his father and seven extended family members inside a mobile home.

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3 minute read

October 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The beating deaths of eight people inside a Georgia mobile home must have been committed by more than one attacker based on the number of victims and the lack of evidence they were restrained from fighting back or escaping, an expert testified Tuesday in defense of the only person standing trial in the killings.

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4 minute read

August 31, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Saying police "shoot first and ask questions later" in black neighborhoods, the Rev. Al Sharpton spoke out Thursday for the family of a Savannah man shot dead during a traffic stop by police, who say he attempted to run over an officer while fleeing.The New York civil rights activist was cheered by about 300 people who crammed the Second St.

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April 23, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A judge said Tuesday he wants a September trial for a coastal Georgia man charged with killing his father and seven others who were brutally beaten inside a mobile home nearly four years ago.

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October 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Competing bidders ended up banding together Monday to negotiate a deal to jointly buy Sea Island Co. for $212.4 million at an auction intended to settle the Georgia luxury resort operator's bankruptcy case.If a federal bankruptcy judge approves the sale, Sea Island's new owners will be a four-way partnership.

By RUSS BYNUM

3 minute read

September 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and seven others inside the family's mobile home in coastal Georgia.A Glynn County grand jury indicted Guy Heinze Jr. on eight counts of murder Monday.District Attorney Stephen Kelley says the mass killings justify the death penalty.

By RUSS BYNUM

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