Russ Bynum

October 05, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - A jury deliberated for about two hours Monday before finding a Georgia man guilty of murder and child molestation in the death of a 6-year-old boy whose body was later discovered wrapped in trash bags and dumped near a road.The jury in coastal Brunswick convicted David Edenfield, 61, in the March 2007 sexual assault and choking death of young Christopher Michael Barrios.

By RUSS BYNUM

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April 03, 2013 | Daily Report Online

While acknowledging it's a bad time to seek money from Washington, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson said Wednesday he's pushing hard to get federal funding to begin deepening the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah by the end of 2013.

By Russ Bynum

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June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. AP - Imperial Sugar has restarted its Georgia refinery to resume making crystal sugar for the first time since a deadly 2008 explosion devastated the plant near Savannah.Employees fired up the boiler at the nation's second-largest sugar refinery Tuesday morning and planned to start shipping liquid sugar by Thursday.

By RUSS BYNUM

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October 10, 2013 | Daily Report Online

The attorney who helped push for a criminal prosecution in Trayvon Martin's shooting said Thursday that he's joining the fight to reopen an investigation into the death of a Georgia teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up wrestling mat at school.

By RUSS BYNUM

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April 28, 2009 | Daily Report Online

FORT STEWART, Ga. AP - A Georgia soldier charged with deserting the Army has pleaded guilty in a military courtroom.Spc. Cliff Cornell, who fled to Canada in 2005 to avoid deploying to Iraq, pleaded guilty Tuesday to desertion with intent to avoid hazardous duty. His sentencing hearing was continuing Tuesday afternoon.

By RUSS BYNUM

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April 11, 2012 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Plans to deepen the Port of Savannah's busy shipping channel are shrinking by a foot of depth while adding about $50 million in costs to taxpayers.Those were the major changes to the project revealed Wednesday as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its final study on the economic and environmental impacts of dredging the Savannah River between the port and the Atlantic Ocean.

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August 12, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge Monday threw out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen has already cost the celebrity cook a valuable chunk of her culinary empire.

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August 07, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A lawyer for Chris Rock said Monday that a court-ordered DNA test proved Rock is not the father of a 13-year-old boy whose mother tried to sue the comedian for support earlier this year.Rock's attorney, John Mayoue of Atlanta, said a Bulloch County judge sent results of the paternity test to lawyers on both sides of the case.

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March 13, 2008 | Daily Report Online

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. AP - A business executive questioned by investigators in a couple's disappearance apparently committed suicide by slashing his inner thigh with a knife, the Beaufort County sheriff said Thursday.Sheriff P.J. Tanner told reporters Dennis Ray Gerwing had been dead for several hours before investigators identified him as a person of interest in the case Tuesday.

By RUSS BYNUM

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September 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MACON, Ga. AP - A former Georgia Superior Court judge has pleaded guilty to a federal corruption charge, in a deal with proseutors that keeps him out of prison.The plea by Brooks E. Blitch III ends a lengthy investigation by state and federal authorities who toppled him as one of rural Clinch County's most powerful politicians.

By RUSS BYNUM

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