Russ Bynum

November 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

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April 15, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A former Savannah talk-radio host said Monday he's seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow in Georgia's 12th Congressional District.Ben Crystal spent six years on Savannah station WHBQ as an often acerbic host touting conservative politics and lambasting liberals under the pseudonym Ben Bennett.

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July 10, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A 74-year-old judge died Monday from head injuries he suffered during a severe beating two weeks ago at his law office in Jesup.Glenn Thomas Jr., a Recorders Court judge and attorney who served 30 years as district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, died at Memorial Health University Medicial Center in Savannah.

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August 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The court clerk of Clinch County pleaded guilty in federal court to making $73,286 in illegal payments to himself and other county employees as ordered by the chief judge of Georgia's Alapaha Judicial Circuit.Daniel Lecesse, the court clerk for 19 years, is the first person to be prosecuted in a federal investigation of payments ordered by Superior Court Judge Brooks E.

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October 01, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - A Georgia man on trial for molesting and slaying a 6-year-old boy says "I should be punished" after looking at photos of the boy's dead body in a videotaped police interview shown in court Thursday.David Edenfield, 61, faces the death penalty if convicted of the March 2007 slaying of Christopher Michael Barrios, whose body was found in a trash bag dumped near a road.

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June 03, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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March 21, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A convicted child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found last week in a trash bag dumped by a roadside.Glynn County District Attorney Stephen D. Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against George David Edenfield, 32, who has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997, and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield.

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April 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

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June 24, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The lead detective insisted in federal court Thursday he got the right man when his investigation sent Troy Anthony Davis to Georgia's death row nearly 21 years ago for the slaying of a Savannah police officer.Lt. Gregory Ramsey testified in U.S. District Court on the second day of a rare hearing ordered by the U.

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July 21, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP-Police evacuated the Chatham County Courthouse after an employee found a suspicious package Monday that police said initially looked like a bomb, but turned out to be harmless on closer inspection.Savannah-Chatham County police spokeswoman Judy Pal refused to describe what was inside the package, but said the sender didn't mail it as a threat or to cause alarm.

By RUSS BYNUM

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