SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- A Superior Court judge has appointed an attorney for an Effingham County pit bull that attacked a 5-year-old boy.

CLYO, Ga. -- A Savannah area man man has been arrested in the beating death of his cousin. Darrell Lovett, 51, was arrested on murder charges Wednesday.

BLOOMINGDALE, Ga. -- Effingham County Sheriff’s Office officials say a Bloomingdale man involved in a weekend accident is lucky to be alive.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. — An Effingham County Superior Court judge has removed first-term Mayor Jeff Northway from office.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. - A Guyton man who reportedly robbed a convenience store on U.S. 80 in Eden at knifepoint Monday evening was tackled by a customer and held until law enforcement arrived.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga.  - The mother of a Springfield toddler who was killed last year at the hands of the woman's live-in boyfriend has been convicted.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. - A Guyton man convicted last month in the 2009 beating death of a 2-year-old child has been sentenced to life without parole plus 20 years.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- It was a tale filled with age-old sins like lust, greed and betrayal soon would be revealed. And a family's eldest son would be at the center of it all.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. - Effingham County jurors took close to six hours to find Craig Heidt guilty in the shotgun slayings of his father, Philip Martin Heidt, and brother Carey Albert Heidt.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. -- A managing partner of a local subdivision development involved in a lawsuit against Effingham County has been arrested in Florida on charges related to sexually explicit ...

The crash of a single-engine airplane during take-off at a private airport in Effingham County sent two men to Memorial University Medical Center.

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Three men arrested early Sept. 5 near Georgia Power's Plant McIntosh on Old Augusta Road will be leaving the country, Lawrence Greene of the FBI said Tuesday