Russ Bynum

February 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

6 minute read

March 14, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Hotels are hiring new desk clerks and housekeepers in anticipation of a spring tourist boom in Savannah, while even a rural Georgia city devastated by manufacturing losses is putting some people back to work as construction begins on a new $57 million private prison.Yes, Georgia still lags behind most of the U.S. with a 10.

By Errin Haines and Russ Bynum

6 minute read

September 23, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be put 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

June 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

May 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A judge has ordered a new trial for a Georgia inmate who has spent 20 years on death row after being convicted of murdering a Wayne County restaurant owner, his wife and their teenage son.Superior Court Judge Gary McCorvey ruled prosecutors withheld evidence that key witnesses had lied, changed their stories and cut deals with authorities before testifying against Larry Lee of Savannah.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

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