Russ Bynum

January 17, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Federal authorities say they have uncovered an illegal sex trafficking network that forced women into prostitution and traded them between cities in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.

By Russ Bynum

1 minute read

December 03, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A nearly two-year drug investigation in coastal Georgia and neighboring South Carolina led to police intercepting roughly $2.7 million worth of cocaine being smuggled along a highway and brought charges against 39 suspects, authorities said Monday.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

June 12, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A Georgia soldier was found guilty Tuesday of killing his two Army roommates in 2010 at a U.S. base camp in Iraq, where prosecutors said he opened fire hours after complaining that the victims had let their room get too messy.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

October 21, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Neighbors awoke to find an entire Georgia family slaughtered overnight at home in bed. A relative who came crying for help at daybreak was soon charged with murder and would face the death penalty.

By Russ Bynum

5 minute read

November 22, 2011 | Daily Report Online

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday in a long-simmering property dispute over Georgia's oldest church, saying a congregation that broke away from the national Episcopal Church four years ago must give back the church's $3 million property in the heart of downtown Savannah.The breakaway group has continued to use the sanctuary of Christ Church since 87 percent of its members voted to split from the Episcopal Church in 2007.

By Russ Bynum

4 minute read

February 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

6 minute read

March 14, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Hotels are hiring new desk clerks and housekeepers in anticipation of a spring tourist boom in Savannah, while even a rural Georgia city devastated by manufacturing losses is putting some people back to work as construction begins on a new $57 million private prison.Yes, Georgia still lags behind most of the U.S. with a 10.

By Errin Haines and Russ Bynum

6 minute read

September 23, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be put on Georgia's death row The answer depends on one's faith in the system and its many procedural hoops.Trial witnesses recanted what they'd sworn to police, and jurors even questioned their verdict. Activists, some of them death penalty supporters, protested by the thousands that he was innocent-or at least that guilt was hopelessly shrouded in reasonable doubt.

By Allen G. Breed and Russ Bynum

10 minute read

June 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

May 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A judge has ordered a new trial for a Georgia inmate who has spent 20 years on death row after being convicted of murdering a Wayne County restaurant owner, his wife and their teenage son.Superior Court Judge Gary McCorvey ruled prosecutors withheld evidence that key witnesses had lied, changed their stories and cut deals with authorities before testifying against Larry Lee of Savannah.

By RUSS BYNUM

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