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Baywatch’s love story with Savannah just keeps getting longer.
Rose Locke Casting, which is getting Savannah-based extras to appear in the “Baywatch” movie currently filming in Savannah and on Tybee Island, needs even more people to stand alongside stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron.

Just a couple of weeks before crowds of young adults descend on Tybee Island for the annual Orange Crush beach event, city officials have reintroduced a polarizing idea for dealing with the party — banning open-air consumption of alcohol in public.
The city’s public safety committee has called a meeting for 10:30 a.m. Friday to discuss an amendment to the city code of ordinances that, if approved, would create a ban on consumption of alcohol in public throughout the month of April.

Kinder Morgan announced today it’s suspending work on its $1 billion Palmetto Pipeline.

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Jaimie Hebert, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, has been named as the finalist to become the next president of Georgia State University.
Kessel Stelling Jr, chairman of the university’s board of regents, and University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby announced Hebert’s selection Wednesday afternoon.

The Chatham County Health Department has issued an advisory for Polk Street Beach on Tybee Island.
The area affected is the northern most part of Tybee Island at the mouth of the Savannah River from the end of the beach to the jetty.
The beach is not closed, but health department officials caution that contact with the water in the affected area may result in illness.

 
The family and estate of slain Chatham County jail inmate Mathew Ajibade on Tuesday sued Chatham County Sheriff Roy Harris, members of his jail corrections staff and the medical care provider for a sweeping range of actions they contend led to his homicide at the jail last year.

Savannah-Chatham police say they’re investigating a home invasion Wednesday morning in Georgetown.
About 5:45 a.m., two armed men knocked on the door of a residence in the 1700 block of Grove Point Road and kicked it open, said Sonny Cohrs, police spokesman.
The homeowner, however, met them with his own gun, after which the two suspects fired their weapons while running away.
One of them was wearing a yellow jacket and they fled in a dark Chevrolet Silverado.
Police ask anyone with information on the case to call CrimeStoppers at 912-234-2020.

Police say a Florida teenager took his mother’s car and drove to Savannah before he and a friend were caught breaking into cars at a hotel on the city’s south side.
Both Orlando-area teenagers were busted about 8 p.m. Tuesday near a hotel in the 17000 block of Abercorn Street and charged with second-degree burglary. Officers had received reports of suspects breaking into cars at a hotel in the area, and, after a search, found the alleged culprits at a second hotel nearby, said Sonny Cohrs, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.