Taxpayers forked out nearly $1.5 million last year to pay county employees' overtime. In fact, the nearly 79,000 hours came with a $1,486,875.34 price tag, and some employees' overtime added up to be a full salary in itself. Employees of the sheriff's office, county jail, fire department and EMA put in the most overtime hours, but their bosses say it's simply unavoidable. More...

Four college students from Waynesboro were held at gunpoint on a rural dirt road in Bulloch County last Tuesday night. Ben Blackburn, 18, who was driving friends Daniel Mobley, Chad Smith and Casey Cox in his pick-up truck, said he took a wrong turn on a public, dead-end road just before 11 p.m. when the group encountered the offender, William Robert Barber Jr. More...

It's been a decade since Burke County's first Relay For Life - but participants are just as determined to keep the money for cancer research rolling in. More...