Russ Bynum

August 16, 2018 | Daily Report Online

In a court filing Tuesday, federal prosecutors said the 63-month sentence they're recommending is plenty stiff; Winner's defense lawyers said in their court filing Wednesday that similar prosecutions resulted in less severe penalties.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

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March 16, 2018 | Daily Report Online

City officials immediately backed off what they had previously said would be a complete prohibition of signs on the leg of the parade route being secured for Vice President Mike Pence's visit.

By Russ Bynum, Associated Press

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September 28, 2017 | Daily Report Online

In court a filing Wednesday, prosecutors attached a 77-page transcript of Winner's interview with FBI agents before a former NSA contractor's arrest in June and included a partial transcript of a Facebook chat between her and her sister in February.

By Russ Bynum

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August 09, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The parents of a Georgia teenager found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat and their attorney must pay more than $292,000 in legal fees to dozens of people they accused of foul play in a lawsuit that was later dropped, a judge ruled.

By Russ Bynum

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July 12, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The civil trial of a railroad company accused of negligence in the 2014 death of a movie worker opened Tuesday with jurors watching video of the film crew fleeing a freight train moments before the fatal crash on a Georgia railroad bridge.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

December 13, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Deal resolves investigation into a nationwide 2006 salmonella outbreak blamed on peanut butter produced in Sylvester, Georgia, which sickened at least 625 people in 47 states.

By Russ Bynum

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May 17, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge said Tuesday she will decide soon whether Georgia agencies are immune from a lawsuit claiming discrimination and neglect have eroded one of the last Gullah-Geechee communities of slave descendants on the Southeast coast.

By Russ Bynum

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October 27, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Federal prosecutors who have spent nearly two years investigating the death of a Georgia teenager who was found at school inside a rolled-up gym mat want a judge to order a six-month halt to evidence gathering in a civil lawsuit by the boy's parents.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

October 27, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Federal prosecutors who have spent nearly two years investigating the death of a Georgia teenager who was found at school inside a rolled-up gym mat want a judge to order a six-month halt to evidence gathering in a civil lawsuit by the boy's parents.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

October 16, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Two former sheriff's deputies were acquitted Friday of involuntary manslaughter but convicted of lesser charges in the stun gun-related death of a 21-year-old detainee at a county jail in southeast Georgia.

By Russ Bynum

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