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'It’s unreal how he was treated just because he’s a little bit more tan than I am....' Marc Wilson / PHOTO: Bulloch County Sheriff's Office (Ben Sellers, Headline USA) As desperately trailing Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams scrambles for a winning message to avoid yet another defeat at the hands of Gov. Brian Kemp, activists are using a road-rage killing as a rallying cry to attack the state’s self-defense laws. On Aug. 31, William “Marc” Wilson, a 21-year-old biracial black man, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 17-year-old Haley Hutcheson. Wilson claimed that a pickup truck...

SHICKSHINNY – A man deceived a foster child into having sex with him for two years, telling the girl the Mafia was watching his family, according to charges filed. State police at Shickshinny charged Mark David Brown, 41, of West Butler Street, Shickshinny, and Statesboro, Ga., with sexually assaulting the then-teen girl from 2004-06. The woman recently came forward with allegations that Brown, as her foster father when she was a child, scared her with a story that the Mafia was watching his family and had given him certain instructions. She said one of the instructions included Brown having sex...

'Tybee bomb' quest Military to study site Statesboro duo believes bomb rests By LOGAN THOMAS lthomas@statesboroherald.net On a clear and frigid February night lit by a full moon in 1958, the air space above the border of Screven and Bulloch counties was the site of a midair collision. An Air Force B-47 carrying a Mk-15 nuclear bomb collided with a F-86 just after midnight. The fighter pilot ejected and his plane plummeted 35,000 feet to crash in a Bulloch County farmer's field. Howard Richardson, the pilot of the damaged bomber, turned the aircraft back toward Savannah for a landing attempt....