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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating another hit-and-run following one that happened just seven hours earlier. A sheriff’s office news release says deputies were called to Mercer University Drive near Dexter Avenue around 7 a.m. Saturday regarding a deceased male on the sidewalk. Fatality investigators were called to the scene, and the preliminary investigation showed the victim was a victim of a hit-and-run collision.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A missing Peach County man was found dead on Pleasant Hill Court in Warner Robins just after 1 a.m. on Saturday. The man's death is being treated as a homicide, according to a release from the Warner Robins Police Department. 33-year-old Joseph Webb was reported...

WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Warner Robins Police Department is treating a “suspicious death” as a homicide. Officers responded to the 100 block of Pleasant Hill Court Saturday morning in reference to a deceased person. The body was later identified as 33-year-old Joseph Webb. Webb was reported missing to the Peach County Sheriff’s Office Thursday.

With 11 homicides in six months, Houston County is on pace to double its number of killings from 2021.

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) - A fatal hit and run in Macon is under investigation. In a media release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office, investigators say 61-year-old Lee Tukes was hit and killed at the intersection of Eisenhower Parkway and C Street just before midnight Friday night. Witnesses say...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (WGXA)-- Food, fun, and festivities filled the air for the 39th annual Warner Robins Independence Day Celebration. Crowds came out to groove to the beat with live music and a concert. Mayor of Warner Robins, LaRhonda Patrick she was excited to coordinate the event with a refreshed...

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a white Chevy Camaro in connection with one of the deaths.

DeMarcus Beckham performs multiple HIV tests a week.  “I’ve tested people in Kroger parking lots,” Beckham said. “College campuses, church campuses, high schools, in back of cars.” Beckham is executive director for Bibb County-based HIV/AIDS advocacy group Reach to Impact. He’s licensed through the Georgia Department of Public Health to test for HIV, or human […] The post Georgia has some of the highest HIV rates in the country. But treatment has never been easier appeared first on Reporter Newspapers & Atlanta Intown.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal pedestrian hit and run that occurred near the intersection of Eisenhower Parkway and C Street. The incident was called into the Macon-Bibb 911 Center at around 11:58 p.m Friday night. According to witness statements, a man was walking across the...

HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) - A missing man has been found dead in Houston County in what is now a homicide investigation. In a post to the department's Facebook page, the Warner Robins Police Department says they were called to a Pleasant Hill Court address in reference to a dead person. When they arrived, they found 33-year-old Joseph Webb, who had been reported missing Friday from Peach County.

MACON, Ga. — The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run accident on Eisenhower Parkway. According to a release from the sheriff's office, this was called into the Macon-Bibb 911 Center just before midnight Friday night. Based on witness statements, a man was walking across the...

MACON, Ga. — An attempt to stop a vehicle with no tag on Interstate 75 South near Forsyth ended with a high speed chase and crash in Macon. It started around 2:18 Friday afternoon when a Monroe County deputy tried to stop the driver. The driver pulled off, and...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Warner Robins police say they've identified the woman who hit a roadside worker with her car and then drove off on Thursday. However, they hope to arrest her before they share her name. The hit-and-run happened on Davis Drive and Green Street. We spoke with...

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A man and woman are now in custody following a chase Friday that started in I-75 in Monroe County and ended with a crash at Atrium Health Navicent’s Urgent Care facility on Riverside Drive in Macon. A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office news release says...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — There was live music, plenty of food and plenty of people from all over Central Georgia who traveled to the 39th annual Independence Day concert in Warner Robins. Here are some thoughts from people who came out and enjoyed the red, white and blue festivities.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Newly-appointed District Attorney William Kendall says Houston County can expect to see more officers patrolling the streets and a crackdown on gangs. This is as the city of Warner Robins responds to a spree of shootings over the past week. Houston County saw at least...

DUBLIN, Ga. (WGXA) -- The Dublin Police Department is asking for your help finding two missing people. 62-year-old Bobby Gaultney and his 38-year-old daughter, Crystal Garnto, have not been seen since March. Gaultney is described as five feet, nine inches tall, weighing 180 pounds. He has gray hair and brown...

MACON, Ga. — A Bibb County Superior Court Judge declared Friends Food Mart a "nuisance," but he's allowing it to reopen for now. Macon-Bibb County got a restraining order to close the store at 3350 Houston Avenue on June 8th, after two men were shot and killed there. It was the second deadly shooting in about a month.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — District Attorney William Kendall is holding a press conference on Friday at the Courthouse in Perry to address violent crime in Warner Robins. Kendall is addressing some case information, community safety, and the efforts from the Houston County DA's office and law enforcement. His remarks...

“My family is going through so much pain,” the dead Macon child’s grandmother said at a bond hearing for the infant boy’s accused killer. “I have to look at my grandson’s urn every day!”