Russ Bynum

July 08, 2011 | Daily Report Online

MACON, Ga. AP - A few hours after Lauren Giddings was reported missing, officers made a macabre discovery outside the recent law school graduate's apartment building: Her dismembered remains.DNA tests have confirmed those remains were hers, but investigators are pleading for help finding the rest of her body. Who killed the 27-year-old woman - and why - is still a mystery.

By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum

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September 24, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

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June 27, 2007 | Daily Report Online

JESUP, Ga. AP - Mirta Blanco plastered the whitewashed wall outside Judge Glenn Thomas Jr.'s law office with handwritten posters telling him "Get Well Soon" and "We Are Keeping You In Our Prayers."She's also been carrying a gun since the 74-year-old Thomas - a lawyer, Recorders Court judge and former district attorney - was found brutally beaten and bleeding at his desk inside his law office Monday.

By Russ Bynum

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November 28, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Army Staff Sgt. Jason Cox says he borrowed $3,000 for an emergency trip to pick up his daughter. The loan ended up costing him more than $4,000 in interest, plus a sport utility vehicle the lender seized when he defaulted.Now the Fort Benning soldier is suing the lender in federal court, contending the interest rate and other terms violated a 2007 law passed by Congress to protect military service members from predatory lending.

By Russ Bynum

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September 01, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By KATE BRUMBACK and RUSS BYNUM

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April 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Needing workers to build roads and improve river transportation in 1829, Georgia lawmakers authorized spending $50,000 to buy a state-owned labor force of 190 ''able bodied'' slaves. The Legislature's foray into government slaveholding, at least on a large scale, proved short lived.

By Russ Bynum

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April 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ATHENS, Ga. AP - For more than 55 years, the volunteer actors and stagehands of the Town Gown Players have entertained patrons in this Southern college town with all manner of productions: Shakespearian classics, Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and Woody Allen's screwball comedies.But nothing could prepare them for the real-life tragedy that struck over the weekend.

By RUSS BYNUM

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February 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A year after he escaped badly burned from a huge blast at the nation's second-largest sugar refinery, Jamie Butler still needs physical therapy once a day to stretch the skin grafts on his arms, hands and legs.He still takes painkillers. And he needs steroid injections to reduce scarring on his face, now covered by a black mask that applies healing pressure to the skin.

By RUSS BYNUM

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February 03, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Don't ask, don't tell Ask those who've fought in Iraq or Afghanistan about the Pentagon's move to consider letting gays serve openly, and it's clear that the ranks are still split, even if polls find growing acceptance of homosexuality in American culture.The Army's official Facebook site has been swamped with hundreds of comments, pro and con, since Adm.

By RUSS BYNUM

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October 17, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Police investigating the slayings of eight people clubbed to death inside a mobile home brushed off tips about alternate suspects and lost track of a bloody martial arts weapon found near the scene days after the crime, the defense attorney for the man on trial for the killings said Thursday.

By Russ Bynum

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