Amy Leigh Womack
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Macon, GA, United States
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New allegations, defendants added in Bibb Schools’ lawsuit
The Bibb County School district has amended its lawsuit against former superintendent Romain Dallemand and others to include more defendants and allegations about the Macon Promise Neighborhood initiative. → Read More
Confessed killer in Lauren Giddings murder may seek long-shot appeal
Stephen McDaniel, convicted in the June 2011 dismemberment murder of Lauren Giddings, his Mercer University law school classmate, may soon appeal. → Read More
Macon hospital to pay $2.5 million to settle ambulance billing fraud case
The Medical Center, Navicent Health has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle allegations it submitted bills for ambulance trips that were either inflated or medically unnecessary, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. → Read More
Judge to consider subpoena during Friday hearing in school lawsuit against Dallemand, others
A company whose bank records were subpoenaed as part of the Bibb County School district’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against former superintendent Romain Dallemand, Isaac Culver and others, is set to argue that a judge quash the subpoena at a Friday, July 28, 2017, hearing in federal court in Macon, Georgia. → Read More
Pizza delivery driver saw the face of her attacker after he shot her, prosecutor says
Bond was denied Thursday, July 27, 2017, for Jacob Miller in the Dec. 26, 2016, shooting and robbery of Papa John’s pizza delivery driver Brooklyn Rouse. → Read More
Midstate man sentenced to life in 2014 fatal shooting
Micki Antonio Brown pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in the 2014 fatal shooting of Majesty Conover at Colonial Terrace Apartments on Macon’s Houston Avenue. → Read More
Did accused deputy killer plan suicide by cop? Jurors to decide
Christopher Calmer is charged with murder in the 2014 shooting death of Monroe County Deputy Michael Norris and could face the death penalty if he’s convicted during a trial held in Forsyth, Ga. → Read More
She called police more than 40 times about teens harassing her. Then she shot one.
Bond was denied Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for Elizabeth Cannon, the 47-year-old former nurse charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Jan. 16, 2017, shooting of 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr. outside her home on Bloomfield Drive in Macon, Ga. → Read More
She called police more than 40 times about teens harassing her. Then she shot one.
Bond was denied Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for Elizabeth Cannon, the 47-year-old former nurse charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Jan. 16, 2017, shooting of 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr. outside her home on Bloomfield Drive in Macon, Ga. → Read More
She called police more than 40 times about teens harassing her. Then she shot one.
Bond was denied Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for Elizabeth Cannon, the 47-year-old former nurse charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Jan. 16, 2017, shooting of 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr. outside her home on Bloomfield Drive in Macon, Ga. → Read More
She called police more than 40 times about teens harassing her. Then she shot one.
Bond was denied Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for Elizabeth Cannon, the 47-year-old former nurse charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Jan. 16, 2017, shooting of 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr. outside her home on Bloomfield Drive in Macon, Ga. → Read More
She called police more than 40 times about teens harassing her. Then she shot one.
Bond was denied Tuesday, April 25, 2017, for Elizabeth Cannon, the 47-year-old former nurse charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery in the Jan. 16, 2017, shooting of 15-year-old Vernon Marcus Jr. outside her home on Bloomfield Drive in Macon, Ga. → Read More
Son tells of father’s fury, chilling confession: ‘I’ve just killed two police’
In an exclusive profile of Ralph Elrod, the Byron-area man accused of shooting Peach County sheriff’s deputies Daryl Smallwood and Patrick Sondron to death in November of last year, Elrod’s son Jarrod tells the Telegraph about his father. → Read More
‘King of cocaine’ offered holiday discounts on crack. Now he gets discount on sentence
Days before leaving office, President Barack Obama granted former Macon cocaine kingpin Jerry Jerome Anderson a presidential commutation, setting his release date for 2020. → Read More
A mother’s emotional plea keeps girl charged in her daughter’s death out of prison
Mary Elizabeth Wade pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, a little more than a year after her friend, Murray Nixon was killed as the two friends tried to push a car out of a patch of grass and mud outside Emmanuel Baptist Church on Foster Road in north Macon. → Read More
Woman bad-mouths car dealer, gets threatened with nude photos, lawsuit says
Amy D. Graham, of Dublin, Ga., filed a lawsuit in Bibb County Superior Court saying she complained about Jeff Smith Chevrolet in Byron on social media and was then threatened that nude photos of her would be distributed if she didn’t take down the post. → Read More
‘She freaked out’: On her 90th birthday, she finally got to ride a Harley
Stella Sarandis was treated to a surprise ride on a Harley Davidson three-wheeled motorcycle Saturday to her 90th birthday party at Macon’s Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church. The Warner Robins woman, who rode in hot air balloons to celebrate her 80th and 85th birthdays, had said she wanted to ride a Harley, to cross the item off her bucket list. → Read More
Father pleads guilty to leaving son, kitten in hot car while shopping at Wal-Mart
The air temperature was an estimated 94 degrees on a July day in 2015 when Daniel Christopher Howard left his 6-year-old son and a kitten behind in a moving truck as he went into Macon’s Zebulon Road Wal-Mart. Howard pleaded guilty to cruelty to children Friday. → Read More
Woman sues ‘Ellen’ show for making a breast joke about her name
She wants to ‘stand up and say this is wrong and this is not how we treat people.’ → Read More
Woman sues ‘Ellen’ show for making a breast joke about her name
She wants to ‘stand up and say this is wrong and this is not how we treat people.’ → Read More