Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 8:47 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed two executive orders Friday, extending the temporary suspension of the state motor fuel and locomotive fuel tax as well as the supply chain state of emergency.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 11:33 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
A date has been set for the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2022 at 12:03 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Camille Syed
It has now been more than three days since a toddler was last seen at his home on Buckhalter Road.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 12:37 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Nancy Smith
Hocus Pocus 2 came out last week on Disney+, 29 years after the original.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2022 at 1:45 PM EDT
|By Andrew Gorton, Sarah Winkelmann, Mariah Congedo and Paige Phillips
Ian is now a tropical storm with max sustained wind at 65 miles per hour.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 9:00 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Chatham County Chairman Chester A. Ellis has issued a local State of Emergency and the Chatham County Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) has entered the Storm Readiness Phase (Operating Condition 2) ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Ian.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2022 at 8:28 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Savannah Mayor Van Johnson has issued an Emergency Order for the City ahead of potential impacts from Hurricane Ian.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 12:24 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Nancy Smith
Court is in session for the latest Marvel series on Disney+.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2022 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Camille Syed
The Savannah Ghost Pirates revealed the winning name for their mascot.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 10:19 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
AMC’s hit show Better Call Saul wrapped up its six season run on Monday night.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 5:43 PM EDT
|By Sean Evans and Paige Phillips
Elwyn Crocker, Sr. will be in an Effingham County courtroom Friday morning for a status hearing.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2022 at 11:40 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Former WTOC anchor Doug Weather will be honored Friday morning with a ceremony dedicating an interchange to him.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 6:37 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
A movie filmed in Savannah featuring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, and more released a trailer for the movie.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 5:02 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The Bryan County Sheriff’s Office confirms multiple reports of damage after a storm Wednesday night.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By Sean Evans and Paige Phillips
The three men convicted of hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Monday by a federal judge.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 12:44 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Nancy Smith
We have murder, we have a jumping timeline and an unexpected twist at the end.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 3:41 PM EDT
|By Jessica Savage, Tyler Manion and Paige Phillips
Alex Murdaugh, the former South Carolina attorney, is in court for charges of murder in the killing of his wife and son.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2022 at 4:01 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and WTOC Staff
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh is a suspect in the killing of his wife and son.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 11:48 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. William O. Wood, 25, of Valdosta, Georgia, killed during World War II, have been accounted for.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2022 at 6:42 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Nineteen railcars and a locomotive derailed early Thursday morning in Ware County, according to CSX.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2022 at 9:16 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” is looking for extras in the Hostess City.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 9:50 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
At-Large Alderwoman Kesha Gibson-Carter has announced her bid for Mayor for the City of Savannah.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 4:00 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Tuesday marks one year since Paul and Maggie Murdaugh died from “multiple gunshot wounds” near the dog kennels at their Colleton County property.
Updated: May. 30, 2022 at 6:43 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
There are multiple events happening across the Lowcountry and Coastal Empire in honor of Memorial Day.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 12:18 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirms a rifle found in a Texas elementary school with a gunman after Tuesday’s mass shooting was manufactured by Daniel Defense, a business in Savannah.
Updated: May. 16, 2022 at 10:03 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Former Vice President Mike Pence will be in Georgia next week, campaigning for Governor Brian Kemp.
Updated: May. 8, 2022 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The United States Coast Guard confirms a plane has crashed off the coast of Wassaw Island.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 4:53 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
On Tuesday, a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision was released, suggesting the country’s highest court may be poised to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, allowing individual states to more heavily regulate or even ban the procedure.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Hurricane Preparedness Week kicked off Sunday, May 1.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2022 at 11:31 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips and Camille Syed
A former Savannah-Chatham County Public School System employee has plead guilty to oxycodone distribution offenses involving a Montgomery, Alabama physician.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2022 at 7:33 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
A man has been arrested following a kidnapping on Hilton Head Island.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 5:33 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Monday, a federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit.
Updated: Apr. 18, 2022 at 4:46 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips, Sarah Winkelmann and Mariah Congedo
Garden City Police are asking everyone to avoid an active scene on Commerce Boulevard near Dean Forest Road.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 7:31 AM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The Tybee Island Police Department is asking the community for help locating a stuffed bunny that means a lot to a little girl.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 5:04 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips and Dal Cannady
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is taking the lead in the case of an officer-involved shooting in Evans County.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2022 at 10:27 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
That’s a wrap for Jamie Lee Curtis who has been in Savannah filming “Halloween Ends.”
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 10:54 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
On February 14, 1954, WTOC made the switch from radio to broadcast television.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 4:56 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips and Alyssa Jackson
A new movie theater opening in Savannah is looking to fill dozens of jobs.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 5:38 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
A famous slasher movie series is filming its latest movie in the Hostess City, and you can be in it.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2022 at 10:36 PM EST
|By Dal Cannady and Paige Phillips
One person is dead and another was wounded in a shooting in Vidalia, according to the city manager.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 6:16 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips, WTOC Staff and Sean Evans
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is investigating an officer involved shooting between the Savannah Police Department and an individual involved in an armed robbery.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 4:52 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips and Sean Evans
The Savannah Police Department is on the scene of a shooting in the 1300 block of E. 39th Street, near the intersection of Cedar Street.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 at 7:16 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) announced a Georgia resident, who is currently in New Jersey, has tested positive for COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2021 at 3:35 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
Democrat Stacey Abrams announced Wednesday she will be running for governor in Georgia’s 2022 election.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 at 11:14 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
The Savannah Bananas have introduced former Major League player Eric Byrnes as the 2022 Banana Ball World Tour head Coach.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 9:43 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips
Members of the jury have reached a verdict in the trial of the three men accused of killing 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in the Satilla Shores neighborhood on February 23, 2020.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 2:52 PM EST
|By Sean Evans, Paige Phillips and Bria Bolden
Just a day after the state rested their case, attorneys for Greg and Travis McMichael asked for a directed verdict on counts one through five, while William Bryan’s attorney asked for a directed verdict on all of his counts.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST
|By Sean Evans and Paige Phillips
Wednesday marked day four of testimony in the murder trial of three men charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 10:24 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
The Cobb County District Attorney’s Office is releasing more information on the prosecutors handling the case of State v. Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William Roddie Bryan.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2021 at 6:19 PM EDT
|By Paige Phillips
Reverend Monsignor William Oliver O’Neill, rector emeritus of the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, has passed away, according to the Diocese of Savannah.
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