Joe Kovac Jr.
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Joe Kovac Jr. is Macon bureau chief covering Middle Georgia for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is a Warner Robins native and he previously reported for the Macon Telegraph, where he was a staff writer for three decades. He was a Pulliam Fellowship recipient in 1991, working for the Indianapolis News. His stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times and Atlanta Magazine. He has been a Livingston Award finalist and won Georgia Press Association, Georgia Associated Press and Green Eyeshade journalism awards.
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Monk at Mercer

Georgia monk who lost leg in peace walk takes first steps since crash

Interstate checkpoint ruse

St. Patrick’s highway checkpoint ruse: Fiery crash, ‘chill’ women, man afoot

Peches fruit stand

Roadwork killed its business. Can famously misspelled fruit stand rebound?

Murder Creek

Mystery at Murder Creek: The vanishings no one noticed

macon homicides

A bullet grazed him at 13. At 25, gunfire left him dead on the same street.

Massee Lane Gardens camellias

This garden boasts a winter wonderland of blooms — one named after UGA legend

Federal courthouse in Macon

Federal judge chides Georgia prison boss and GDC for acting ‘above the law’

Macon antisemitic case

Neo-Nazi sentenced for hate crime, antisemitic mail to rabbi, lawmaker

PHOTOS: Georgia's first snowfall of the year

Atlanta spared, but arctic blast coats swath of Georgia with dusting of snow

World record donkey

Georgia donkey goes from ‘walking skeleton’ to Guinness record holder