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Arrest made in April shooting of 29-year-old Macon man, Bibb County Sheriff's Office says
MACON, Ga. — A Macon man was arrested on Wednesday in the April shooting death of 29-year-old Rashad Shaquille Reddick, according to a press release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office. It happened in the 2500 block of Fair Street, which is a short dead end section off of...
Macon-Bibb County working to restore services after breach
MACON, Ga. (WPGA) - Services in Macon-Bibb County slowly coming back online after a security breach over the weekend. The county said, as of Tuesday, office phones are restored but the internet, email, and network are still offline. If you have to make payments online to the courts, they take...
Macon-Bibb cyberattack update: County phones back up, but things still far from normal; County's network, internet still down
MACON, Ga. — Macon-Bibb County says their phone lines are back up after an apparent cyber attack, but internet service and email are still out. The outage caused problems for some people trying to do business with county departments — and for the departments themselves. Tuesday's county commission meeting had to be live-streamed from a cellphone instead of the usual professional broadcast equipment. That phone captured an interaction between Commissioner Virgil Watkins and Mayor Lester Miller during the meeting.
Bibb County trying to restore its network after apparent cyber attack over the weekend
MACON, Ga. — As of noon on Tuesday, Bibb County is trying to get its network and websites up and running after an apparent cyber attack over the weekend. County spokesman Chris Floore said they took the network offline out of quote "an abundance of caution." Tuesday morning Bibb...
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