Stories by Mary Landers

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Tax woes for Savannah 'Extreme Makover' home

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Overdue property taxes on the "Extreme Makeover" house were paid in full Monday, removing a tax lien Chatham County issued March 1 on the property of Jim and Carmen Simpson.
By Mary Landers

Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011

Paula Deen's 'bible' named unhealthiest cookbook

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Celebrity chef Paula Deen is known for her folksy approach to food, but health experts say she's unhealthy.
By Mary Landers

Monday, Dec. 26, 2011

Skidaway robots investigate yearly bloom

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Catherine Edwards and Jim Nelson of Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are spending this winter chasing a mystery off the coast of the Carolinas from Cape Romain, S.C., to Cape ...
By Mary Landers

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Paula Deen, others faces Chatham hen house crackdown

WILMINGTON ISLAND, Ga. --When the Chatham County zoning administrator told Wilmington Island residents Bill and Jan Lynes their backyard chickens had to go, they thought they were being singled ...
By Mary Landers

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Sun cooks burgers on Tybee Island

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. -- Take one satellite dish. Line it with tiny mirrors. Poise a skillet at just the right spot above it and wait for the clouds to part. Now you're cooking with glass.
By Mary Landers

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Ogeechee OK for swimming, but not fishing

Regulators lifted a swimming advisory for the Ogeechee River on Friday after lab tests indicated no unsafe levels of chemical substances in the water.
By Mary Landers

Monday, Feb. 14, 2011

Savannah harbor comments kept secret

More than 1,000 public comments about harbor deepening have poured into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Savannah. But who sent them a secret.
By Mary Landers

Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010

Judge halts Sandersville coal plant

Judge Ronit Walker has rejected Georgia's air quality permit for Plant Washington, a proposed 850-mega-watt coal-fired power plant in Sandersville.
By Mary Landers

Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010

U.S. hurricane season ends quietly

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Hurricane season ends today, after whipping up 19 named storms, most of which had little effect on the U.S.
By Mary Landers

Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010

Savannah shipping threatens whales

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Ships headed into Savannah are supposed to slow down when endangered right whales could be nearby, but some ships apparently aren't.
By Mary Landers

Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010

Critics assail Ga. Power rate request

SAVANNAH -- About 100 people jammed into Savannah City Hall chambers Tuesday evening to protest a proposed rate hike from Georgia Power.
By Mary Landers

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Tybee beach-goers join hands, too

TYBEE ISLAND, GA. -- At noon Saturday on Tybee, hundreds of people got up from their beach blankets, strolled to the water's edge and joined hands.
By Mary Landers

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Georgia saving turtles from Gulf oil spill

Slick with orangey oil, sea turtles are only too easy to scoop. "Sometimes in the oil you can literally get the net under them," said Mark Dodd, a Georgia biologist.
By Mary Landers

Friday, April 9, 2010

Solar farm is a first in Georgia

Two doctors made energy history last week in a dusty field in Bulloch County when they hooked up their solar farm to the electric grid.
By Mary Landers

Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009

Rising shoreline threatens clues to history

SAVANNAH, Ga. --- Walking along the bluff of an island off Chatham County, archaeologist Chris McCabe keeps his eyes on the ground looking for the stories the artifacts there can tell him.
By Mary Landers

Saturday, Aug 29, 2009

As globe warmed, Georgia cooled

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Average global temperatures have risen about 1.5 degrees over the past 150 years, but not in Georgia.
By Mary Landers

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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Friday, Nov. 21, 2008

SSU shooting suspect still at large

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Savannah State University police continue to search for a suspect in today’s on-campus shooting of a student.
By Mary Landers
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