Russ Bynum

April 28, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The attorney for a Fort Stewart soldier charged with deserting the Army says the soldier will plead guilty.A plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon for Spc. Cliff Cornell, who fled to Canada in 2005 to avoid deploying to Iraq.Cornell's lawyer, James Branum, tells The Associated Press the 29-year-old will plead guilty to the charge of desertion with intent to avoid hazardous duty.

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June 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Former NFL player Arthur James Marshall Jr. was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he swindled more than $1 million from banks by using false information to obtain loans for real estate ventures.Arthur James Marshall Jr. was arrested in Miami after a grand jury in Savannah indicted him last week, said Edmund A.

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September 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - Nearly four years after two real estate agents were stripped naked, robbed and fatally shot in their Cobb County office, a jury convicted a man Tuesday who told police he likely murdered the women but couldn't remember.Stacey Ian Humphreys faces the death penalty in the Nov. 3, 2003, slayings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown.

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April 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Though short on money, a state legislator will challenge U.S. Rep. John Barrow in the summer Democratic primary believing a grassroots campaign will be enough to unseat a veteran Congressman with a million-dollar war chest on his drive for a third term.State Sen. Regina Thomas of Savannah, who has served in the Georgia Legislature since 1995, paid her qualifying fee for the race Monday in Atlanta.

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November 15, 2011 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is endorsing the deepening of the Savannah harbor, a $600 million project that the Obama administration official says "has to happen" because it will create jobs.LaHood spoke out in favor of the long-sought expansion to boost Savannah's seaport Tuesday after taking a port tour with Gov.

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November 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A former congressional aide to two Georgia Republicans said Thursday he'll seek the GOP nomination for the 12th District seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow.John Stone, 51, of Augusta will try his hand as a candidate after more than a decade spent working as a Washington aide for the late Rep.

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January 13, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Morris Publishing Group, the Georgia-based owner of 13 daily newspapers including The Augusta Chronicle and the Savannah Morning News, says it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within a week.The Augusta-based company said in a news release Wednesday it will file a "prepackaged" plan in federal bankruptcy court by Tuesday.

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January 23, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center defended it Tuesday amid rising support in Washington to close the U.S. military prison used to detain suspected terrorists.Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby told The Associated Press he's confident most Americans don't want the roughly 275 detainees held at the U.

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October 23, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Jurors are hearing attorneys' closing arguments in the trial of a Georgia man charged with clubbing to death his father and seven extended family members inside their mobile home four years ago.

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October 07, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - A Georgia man was sentenced to death Tuesday for molesting and strangling a 6-year-old boy inside a mobile home before the child's body was wrapped in trash bags and dumped near a road.Jurors deliberated two hours before unanimously agreeing on a death sentence for 61-year-old David Edenfield.

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