A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and 7 others inside the family’s mobile home in coastal Georgia. A Glynn County grand jury indicted Guy Heinze Jr. on Monday on eight counts of murder.

The 16-year-old brother of a coastal Georgia man charged with killing his father and seven others inside the mobile home they shared says he’s innocent and never would have
harmed his own family.

Georgia’s teacher certification agency has received complaints for the four school districts where a state audit found cheating on standardized math tests.

The state Board of Education has approved unanimously a plan to toss out scores for standardized tests at four elementary schools where cheating was discovered.

Georgia’s coast will soon have a public bus system that runs among nine counties thanks to federal stimulus money.

Glynn County authorities believe they have solved a sixteen-year-old killing with the arrest of a man in Florida.

Authorities are investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy who fell off the trunk of a slow-moving automobile.

Authorities say a 50-year-old Brunswick man has been arrested for attacking two boys with a hammer, golf club and metal pipe, sending one child to the hospital.  Darryl Barnamon is in the Glynn County jail on charges of cruelty to children, aggravated battery and assault and possession
of a weapon in a school zone following the Feb. 11 incident.

Football fans who poured onto St. Simons Island before Saturday’s Georgia-Florida football game left a Glynn County police official disgusted.