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Stabbing, shooting reported in Macon

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are investing separate incidents of a stabbing and a shooting that took place Thursday night, Police Chief Mike Burns said...Read More

Macon Man Shot on Christmas Eve

FOX 24 Macon: Macon police are investigationg a Christmas Eve shooting that happened on Emery Highway...Read More

Man Shot on Emery Highway in Macon on Christmas Eve

13 WMAZ Macon: Macon Police say a man was shot as he was getting into his car on Christmas Eve...Read More

Cherry good New Year’s Eve party in downtown Macon

Macon Telegraph: New Year’s Eve is going pink. At midnight Thursday, a giant Cherry Blossom Ball will drop from a 30-foot tower in downtown Macon as part of NewTown Macon’s First Friday at Midnight...Read More

Macon man carjacked, struck in head

Macon Telegraph: A 23-year-old Macon man was struck in the head with a gun in a Wednesday night carjacking on Calhoun Street, according to Macon police...Read More

Men accused of stealing metal from Macon school

Macon Telegraph: Two men have been charged with theft and criminal trespass after they allegedly stole metal from bicycle racks and air-conditioning parts at Cynthia Weir Elementary School on Wednesday, Macon police said...Read More

Macon Rescue Mission Prepares for Christmas Dinner

FOX 24 Macon: The dining room at Macon Rescue Mission will soon be full, as the non-profit organization hosts its annual Christmas dinner. About 400 need people are expected to attend. That’s about 100 more people then they had last year...Read More

Macon Outreach: Economy Drives More People To Need-Based Services

13 WMAZ Macon: Macon Outreach says more people are streaming through their doors for food, rental assistance and other need-based services...Read More

Macon Co. comes together for fire victims

WKRN Nashville: Macon County is coming together after two families lost everything in house fires less than two weeks apart...Read More

Macon Kwanzaa events kick off tonight

Macon Telegraph: About 300 people are expected to help celebrate the first night of Kwanzaa with storytelling, African dance and a drum tribute, starting at 7 tonight at the Douglass Theatre...Read More

Macon Co. teen dies in one-car accident

WTVM 9 Columbus: News Leader 9 has learned a teen was killed in a one-vehicle crash in Macon County, AL Wednesday evening...Read More

Macon Player Steals Lottery Cash Box

FOX 24 Macon: Macon Police are searching for a man they say overpowered a clerk and stole a cash box from a lottery machine he was playing...Read More

Macon's jobless rate unchanged

Macon Telegraph: The Georgia Department of Labor reported Wednesday that the preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in the metro Macon area was unchanged at 9.8 percent from October to November...Read More

Macon police investigate gunshot that hit vehicle

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are looking into an incident in which a gun was apparently fired at a moving vehicle Tuesday night on Interstate 75 North near Eisenhower Parkway, a report stated...Read More

Food, other items stolen from Macon church

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are investigating a burglary at the Remnant Body of Christ Church, 3810 Grand Ave., a report said...Read More

Macon Man Stabbed After Argument

13 WMAZ Macon: A news release says officers found 45-year-old Charles Dickerson slumped over a chair at a home on Jackson Street...Read More

Group of four people robs lottery machine at Macon store

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are investigating a Wednesday robbery at the Bateman and Wade store, 2283 Clayton St., Chief Mike Burns said...Read More

Macon police investigating Bateman and Wade robbery

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are investigating a robbery that took place earlier today at the Bateman and Wade store, 2283 Clayton St., Chief Mike Burns said...Read More

Snow slides into county: Macon spared storm's worst

The Franklin Press: Franklin got some appropriate weather to match its Window Wonderland storefronts on Dec. 18, when a massive storm system came up from the Gulf and pounded Western North Carolina with a wintry mix of snow, sleet and rain...Read More

Macon area unemployment rate unchanged

Macon Telegraph: The Georgia Department of Labor reported today that the preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in the metro Macon area was unchanged at 9.8 percent from October to November. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed workers in the area decreased by 52, from 11,033 in October to 10,981 in November, according to a news release from the department...Read More

Macon boys hold on to defeat Spartans 71-68

Moberly Monitor-Index: The Spartans late fourth-quarter comeback went for naught Tuesday as Macon held on to beat Moberly 71-68 in varsity boys basketball play hosted here at the MACC Activity Center...Read More

Buzzer-beater beats Tigerettes, Macon men hold off Spartans

Macon Chronicle-Herald: The Macon varsity basketball teams split with Moberly Tuesday night...Read More

AISA Football Player of the Year: Craig Granger, Macon-East

Montgomery Advertiser: Granger shares his thoughts on being recognized by the "Montgomery Advertiser" as the best in AISA football:..Read More

Macon Burglary Suspect Arrested

FOX 24 Macon: A Macon woman remains behind bars on burglary charges...Read More

Police Say Macon Men Caught Stealing From Roofing Business

FOX 24 Macon: Police catch two Macon men allegedly stealing from a Holt Avenue roofing company...Read More

Readers help out after theft of Macon family's gifts

Macon Telegraph: Shanella Henry and her two boys will probably never know another Christmas like the Christmas of 2009. It began early this month with a break-in at their home, a punch in the gut for a financially strapped, unemployed single mom living in public housing. The presents she’d bought for her 1- and 7-year-old sons were stolen...Read More

Regents chair Bob Hatcher faces balancing act

Macon Telegraph: Life is a balancing act these days for Macon resident Bob Hatcher...Read More

Man robbed in south Macon home invasion

Macon Telegraph: A man reported he was robbed during a home invasion about 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 4100 block of Worsham Avenue, according to Macon police...Read More

Argument Leads to Christmas Eve Stabbing

FOX 24 Macon: Macon Police Chief Mike Burns says officers responded to a possible stabbing at 1284 Jackson Street just before 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Burns says when officers arrived, they found 45-year-old Charles Dickerson slumped over in his chair with stab wounds to his left side and upper back...Read More

Late Shoppers Head to Macon Mall

13 WMAZ Macon: With just hours left, holiday shoppers hope to cross the last few gifts off their lists...Read More

Swine flu vaccine available for all

Sonoma Index-Tribune: JORDAN MURRAY, 8, gets her H1N1 vaccine from Ashley Macon of Napa Valley College during a swine-flu clinic earlier this month. Bill Hoban/Index-Tribune..Read More

Macon Man Carjacked in Front of His Home

13 WMAZ Macon: The victim says a man hit him with gun, demanded money, then threw him from the car, according to the police report...Read More

People Working on Christmas

FOX 24 Macon: Larry Spruill Jr. Most families are at home celebrating the Christmas holiday, but some jobs have to function around the clock. For 16 years, taxi driver William Ellis, has driven around the streets of Macon, picking up people who need rides. “I enjoy driving cabs and I make money.”..Read More

Peake Floats Idea for North Macon City

13 WMAZ Macon: State Rep. Allen Peake says if Bibb County can't get together on consolidation, maybe it's time for north Macon to split off on its own...Read More

FENNELLY: December to remember full of holiday entertainment

Macon Telegraph: As the crowd streamed out into the crisp winter air Sunday afternoon following the Macon Symphony Orchestra’s “Music Yule Love” concert, the Hallelujah Chorus still ringing in their ears, it occurred to me that never in the 29 years I have been writing about entertainment have we been blessed with anything near the abundance of high-quality events that have been showered (no snow, unfortunately .....Read More

Youth Actors’ Katy Thompson bows out with one-night show

Macon Telegraph: Theatre Macon is bidding a fond farewell to Youth Actors Company director Katy Thompson with a one-night only extravaganza, “Katy and YAC — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”..Read More

Newest Georgia Bob’s is barbecue at its best

Macon Telegraph: You can’t throw a bone in Macon without hitting a barbecue joint. Lucky for us, there’s a variety of barbecue styles and some meaty tradition in this town...Read More

Police: Macon Man Fired Guns Because Ambulance Was Slow

13 WMAZ Macon: Police say they cited a Macon man for shooting off his guns because an ambulance didn't arrive fast enough...Read More

Hear it through Grapevine at ARC New Year’s Eve bash

Macon Telegraph: Josh Powell, chairman of the ARC (Advocacy Resource Center) of Macon’s fundraising committee, gave a phone interview about the organization’s plans for its second annual New Year’s Eve Big Dance at the newly renovated Terminal Station...Read More

Aim and fire: Archery program formed for middle school students

The Franklin Press: Carissa Shelton has been shooting archery for a couple years. While talking with some of her students in her agriculture forestry class this fall, the idea came up to get an archery club started at Macon Middle School...Read More

MMS boys hoops: hearts of lions, speed of gazelles

The Franklin Press: As a way for extra incentive or motivation, some coaches like to use a phrase or theme during the course of a season. Macon Middle School's boys basketball team has a unique one...Read More

Macon JV wins three out of four

Macon Chronicle-Herald: The Macon junior varsity basketball teams won three out of four games over the weekend...Read More

Rudkin, Freeman lead Macon to sweep of Kirksville Saturday

Macon Chronicle-Herald: The Macon varsity basketball teams swept Kirksville Saturday night...Read More

GI Christmas in Afghanistan: hip-hop, iced tea and an antenna tree

McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News: KABUL, Afghanistan — Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from their loved ones, did things this Christmas Day that they wouldn't at home. They improvised -- building an ersatz Christmas tree out of stacked communications equipment. And they partied...Read More

Macon Police: Man Steals Cash Box From Lotto Machine

13 WMAZ Macon: When the clerk opened the machine to assist the customer, the customer over powered the clerk and stole the cash box from the machine...Read More

Improvements progress for Macon 911

KTVO Kirksville: A bid is accepted for the technology upgrade...Read More

Macon police close books on slaying of Waldo Sheftall

Macon Telegraph: Police say they have solved the mystery of who killed Waldo Sheftall, a well-known Macon businessman, more than two years ago...Read More

Suspect arrested after Macon bank robbery

Macon Telegraph: A 28-year-old man has been charged with armed robbery after allegedly robbing SunTrust Bank, 1104 Gray Highway, just before noon Monday, according to Macon police...Read More

Man robbed outside apartment in Macon

Macon Telegraph: Macon police are investigating an armed robbery that took place Friday night on Baxter Avenue, a report stated...Read More

Macon Woman Plays Supermarket Santa

13 WMAZ Macon: Mary Hilton shocked more than a dozen shoppers at the Kroger on Pio Nono Avenue by offering to buy their groceries...Read More