Russ Bynum

August 31, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - A frantic caller told authorities he had just come home to find several relatives apparently beaten to death and another barely breathing, according to a 911 tape released Monday from the weekend attack at a mobile home park in southeastern Georgia."My whole family is dead" screamed Guy Heinze Jr.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

April 19, 2007 | Daily Report Online

STATESBORO, Ga. AP - At the end of Act One, the tenor wearing a white suit and trademark red suspenders clutches his fat cigar in a smoldering rage."I'm not gonna put up with any social equality in this state as long as I'm governor," he sings in a dark, resonant voice. "We don't need no Negroes and white people taught together.

By Russ Bynum

4 minute read

September 21, 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 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq."I'm nervous, scared," Cornell said, wiping puffy eyes beneath his sunglasses Monday at a Savannah hotel after a three-day bus ride from Seattle.

By RUSS BYNUM

4 minute read

January 11, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Even at age 81, Dr. James C. Metts Jr. liked to stay busy. By day, he treated some of Savannah's poorest patients at a downtown medical clinic. By night, or whenever police called, he examined dead bodies as the Chatham County coroner - an elected job that gave Metts a taste of the spotlight in the bestselling book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

By Russ Bynum

6 minute read

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

5 minute read

September 24, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By RUSS BYNUM

5 minute read

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

4 minute read

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

5 minute read

September 01, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By KATE BRUMBACK and RUSS BYNUM

5 minute read