Benjamin Payne

JR Grovner said that he told a Georgia DNR captain last summer that the Sapelo Island dock's gangway was “going to collapse.”

Structural failure is to blame for a dock collapse in Georgia that killed seven people Saturday. Investigators want to know why an aluminum gangway gave way while people were boarding a ferry.

A special legislative hearing on the dock collapse has been scheduled for next week.

Caption Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally in Savannah on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.

“I should have been able to act without the government's interference in order to save my daughter's life,” said Savannah mother Callie Beale.

The mental state felt by some survivors “will make the living jealous of the dead,” one attorney said.

He attributed the long-term success of loggerheads to conservation practices which began in the 1970s and '80s and which took decades to see measurable

LISTEN: The new event will mark Savannah's first marathon in three years. GPB's Benjamin Payne reports.

Former Detroit Lion and Georgia Southern University football player Leander Antwione Williams is charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The research took a different route than most other studies, which tend to focus on rainfall.