Deputies arrested two Macon men late Monday night after they were spotted near Hancock State Prison and later found carrying ...

Justin Copeland had posted bond roughly three months earlier for stealing a car and ramming it into a hotel. But within a few ...

Just months after hurling racial slurs at a letter carrier, William Franklin was convicted of ramming his tractor into the ...

Johnifer Barnwell, who broke out of the Bibb County Jail in 2023 as he was awaiting federal sentencing for armed drug trafficking and who was later captured in Augusta, was sentenced to life plus five ...

The conviction stems from when Barnwell, Joey Fournier, Marc Kerry Anderson, and Chavis Demaryo Stokes escaped from the Bibb ...

Among the threats directed at the letter carrier, the man said he’d run the carrier over with his tractor, officials said.

An inmate at Macon State Prison died last week on February 14, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. Macon State Prison inmate Marquel Smith died on February 14. The official cause ...

The AJC found that Macon State Prison, which is about two hours south of Atlanta in rural Macon County, was the deadliest in Georgia last year, with at least nine homicides. The killings have ...

Search warrants followed and his electronics were taken from his home and a forensic examination was conducted.

Macon State Prison has become one of the bloodiest correctional facilities in Georgia, and no one knows that better than the men and women who work for Macon County EMS. As the violence at the ...

A Georgia man will spend nine years in prison for stealing 62 guns from a Macon pawn shop. Rontavious Jamal Jackson, 34, of ...

He pleaded guilty ahead of his second trial, after the outcome of his first trial was overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court ...