Russ Bynum

April 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Jason Rhoads landed a job last summer that seemed secure enough to support his young family through the recession-building military planes for the nation's largest defense contractor.He joined 7,000 workers at Lockheed Martin's massive plant in Marietta, assembling aircraft for the Pentagon, such as the C-130J cargo plane and the futuristic F-22 Raptor.

By RUSS BYNUM

6 minute read

April 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ATHENS, Ga. AP - A University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two other men outside a community theater has a plane ticket to fly to the Netherlands later this week and left behind an empty passport wallet, federal authorities said Monday.Law enforcement agencies nationwide have been searching for 57-year-old marketing professor George Zinkhan since Saturday's shootings in Athens, about 70 miles east of Atlanta.

By RUSS BYNUM

3 minute read

January 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The Army filed charges Tuesday against a single-mom soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan last year, arguing she had no family able to care for her infant son.Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a 21-year-old Army cook, could face a prison sentence and a dishonorable discharge if she is convicted in a court-martial.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

September 22, 2011 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be 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

February 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

AUGUSTA, Ga. AP - A federal judge Wednesday cleared the way for newspaper owner Morris Publishing Group to emerge from bankruptcy protection less than a month after it filed under Chapter 11.Morris Publishing, owner of 13 daily newspapers including the Amarillo Globe-News and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, sped through the court after a year spent formulating a plan to shed $288.

By RUSS BYNUM

3 minute read

September 13, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A Georgia teen convicted of fatally shooting a baby in a stroller was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole after the grieving mother asked a judge to punish the gunman for taking "the love of my life."

By Russ Bynum

5 minute read

June 22, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Death penalty appeals from condemned inmates usually hinge on technicalities, legal hiccups and procedural errors. But this week a federal judge will hear evidence from a death row inmate convicted of gunning down a Savannah police officer that will center on a more fundamental question: Is he innocentTroy Anthony Davis' attorneys and legal experts alike say such an argument is highly unusual.

By GREG BLUESTEIN and RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

July 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The Democratic primary challenger to U.S. Rep. John Barrow accused him of dragging his feet on reducing gas prices and supporting illegal wiretapping of Americans during a televised debate Tuesday.State Sen. Regina Thomas of Savannah called herself the "true Democrat" in her race against Barrow, a two-term incumbent in the 12th Congressional District.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

January 31, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A former soldier wanted her four children to grow up and kill for a Georgia militia group that she and other active-duty Army troops organized to plot bomb attacks in nearby Savannah and poison apple crops in Washington state, a prosecutor said in court Thursday.

By Russ Bynum

4 minute read

October 24, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A Savannah attorney wants to question Sen. Saxby Chambliss about whether Imperial Sugar enlisted the Republican lawmaker to help the company avoid blame in the deadly explosion at its Georgia refinery.Attorney Mark Tate, who is suing Imperial Sugar on behalf of two injured workers and the families of two employees killed in the blast, subpoenaed Chambliss to testify on Thursday - five days before the Nov.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read