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Melinda Roell says her professors and fellow students became her 'pillars of strength' during her struggles.

The Statesboro Food Bank is hosting a holiday and end-of-year giving campaign called Stockings of Hope, where your donation will be used to purchase food for community members in need during the holiday season. You can give online, by text, or by mailing a check.

Welcome to National Signing Day for the Class of 2024. Eagle Nation, follow along here as all the signees are announced on social media (@GSAthletics_FB) and their bios are posted below. Name Pos. Ht. Wt.

GS (0-12) led at the halftime break for the second time this season, but FGCU (4-9) did just enough to take the game from the designated home team.

U.S. Marshall's Task Force Agents arrested a man in Augusta who was a suspect in a Statesboro shooting.

Statesboro's newest Parker's Kitchen is now open at the intersection of Northside Drive East and North Main Street.

District administrators ask families to regularly remind children that all school campuses are smoke-free and vape-free zones. Possession of any of these type items could result in discipline that includes expulsion from their school with the option to be placed at the district's alternative learning campus, the Transition Learning Center. 

The Bulloch Academy Gators defeated the Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets, 50-17, in the varsity girls match up, and, 58-57, in a nail biter match up between the varsity boys.

The new grant funds a three-year project in which a group of three to five students each year will receive intensive training in qualitative research methods, as well as the complexities associated with managing Georgia’s coast, and commercial fishing industry. It covers the students’ research travel to spend multiple days and nights on the coast to conduct interviews for “Dock Stories,” a collaborative effort with the University of Georgia’s Bryan Fluech.

Tony Deal, owner of Deal Contracting Inc., and his wife, Lisa, continue a Christmas tradition of outdoor decorating started by Deal’s parents in the late 1970s.