Russ Bynum

January 28, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Prosecutors never promised immunity from criminal charges to a filmmaker indicted after a crew member was killed by a train while shooting a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman, the district attorney said in a court filing.

By Russ Bynum

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January 28, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Prosecutors never promised immunity from criminal charges to a filmmaker indicted after a crew member was killed by a train while shooting a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman, the district attorney said in a court filing.

By Russ Bynum

3 minute read

October 28, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A review by county prosecutors of drug arrests involving the Ferguson police officer who killed an unarmed, black 18-year-old in a separate incident has led to the dismissal of a half-dozen felony cases.

By Russ Bynum

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October 28, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A former Georgia investment adviser was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for committing fraud that fueled a bank's collapse, cost investors millions of dollars and turned the accused banker into a fugitive who was ultimately — and mistakenly — declared dead.

By Russ Bynum

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September 19, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal jury convicted three people Friday in connection with an outbreak of salmonella poisoning five years ago that sickened hundreds of people and was linked to a number of deaths.

By Russ Bynum

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September 18, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A jury weighing criminal charges Thursday against the owner of a Georgia peanut plant blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak five years ago will decide the case without hearing one fact — that nine people died after eating the company's tainted peanut butter.

By Russ Bynum

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September 12, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal jury is hearing final appeals from attorneys in the trial of a Georgia peanut plant owner and two others charged in connection with a deadly salmonella outbreak five years ago.

By Russ Bynum

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September 11, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The owner of a Georgia peanut plant where a deadly salmonella outbreak originated five years ago approved sales of tainted food "whatever the risk," including shipments known to have tested positive for the bacteria and others sent with fake lab results and no real confirmation the products were safe to eat, a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments in the food-poisoning trial Thursday.

By Russ Bynum

4 minute read

September 10, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The attorney for one of three people charged in a deadly salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut plant says his client was a customer, not a co-conspirator who plotted to ship tainted food.

By Russ Bynum

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September 03, 2014 | Daily Report Online

CSX Transportation twice denied producers of a biographical movie about singer Gregg Allman permission to shoot on its railroad tracks before a freight train slammed into the film's crew in south Georgia, killing one worker and injuring six, the company said in court documents..

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press

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