Russ Bynum

April 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Needing workers to build roads and improve river transportation in 1829, Georgia lawmakers authorized spending $50,000 to buy a state-owned labor force of 190 ''able bodied'' slaves. The Legislature's foray into government slaveholding, at least on a large scale, proved short lived.

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April 27, 2009 | Daily Report Online

ATHENS, Ga. AP - For more than 55 years, the volunteer actors and stagehands of the Town Gown Players have entertained patrons in this Southern college town with all manner of productions: Shakespearian classics, Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and Woody Allen's screwball comedies.But nothing could prepare them for the real-life tragedy that struck over the weekend.

By RUSS BYNUM

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February 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - A year after he escaped badly burned from a huge blast at the nation's second-largest sugar refinery, Jamie Butler still needs physical therapy once a day to stretch the skin grafts on his arms, hands and legs.He still takes painkillers. And he needs steroid injections to reduce scarring on his face, now covered by a black mask that applies healing pressure to the skin.

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February 03, 2010 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Don't ask, don't tell Ask those who've fought in Iraq or Afghanistan about the Pentagon's move to consider letting gays serve openly, and it's clear that the ranks are still split, even if polls find growing acceptance of homosexuality in American culture.The Army's official Facebook site has been swamped with hundreds of comments, pro and con, since Adm.

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October 17, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Police investigating the slayings of eight people clubbed to death inside a mobile home brushed off tips about alternate suspects and lost track of a bloody martial arts weapon found near the scene days after the crime, the defense attorney for the man on trial for the killings said Thursday.

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September 29, 2011 | Daily Report Online

RUSS BYNUMThe Associated PressWhen Georgia executed Troy Davis last week after four years of appeals, thousands still protested that Davis' guilt remained uncertain because witnesses who identified him as a police officer's killer in 1989 simply couldn't be trusted.The issue raised in Davis' case is getting harder to ignore.

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April 18, 2012 | Daily Report Online

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March 15, 2012 | Daily Report Online

BRUNSWICK, Ga. AP - Environmentalists asked a federal judge Thursday to decide whether the Navy must halt plans to build a $100 million offshore training range because of potential threats to endangered right whales.The Navy wants to install an undersea array of cables and sensors for training warships, submarines and aircraft about 50 miles off the Atlantic coast of southern Georgia and northern Florida.

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July 25, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Federal officials proposed more than $8.7 million in fines Friday against Imperial Sugar Co. for violations at a Georgia plant where an explosion this year killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana.The fines would be the third-highest in the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and include $5 million for the explosion near Savannah and $3.

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July 16, 2007 | Law.com

A 74-year-old judge died July 9 from head injuries he suffered during a severe beating two weeks ago at his law office in Georgia. Glenn Thomas Jr. was a Recorders Court judge and attorney who served 30 years as district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. Authorities say murder charges will be filed against Bobby Rex Stribling. Stribling was released from prison in 2004 after serving eight years for burglary, theft and other charges prosecuted by Thomas' office during his last year as DA.

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