A registered sex offender from Hephzibah has been arrested again after authorities say he attempted to meet what he believed was an 11-year-old child for sex in Evans.

A local man was charged Tuesday with public indecency after a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier said the suspect masturbated in her presence while riding a bicycle, authorities said.

A Richmond County deputy jailer has been fired and arrested after investigators say he had sex with a female inmate while she was incarcerated at the county jail.

Three people have been indicted in Columbia County in two separate human trafficking cases involving underage girls who had been reported missing and later recovered through a multi-agency effort. The indictments, returned by a Columbia County grand jury on Dec. 18, stem from allegations that two suspects sold or profited from the sexual exploitation of...