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SPD officer, wife dead in apparent murder-suicide
Funeral for Ian Huggins being planned in Florida
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APO Ian Huggins
Statesboro Police Department officers are wearing shrouded badges this week after the death of an advanced patrol officer and his wife early Sunday in what police officials described as an apparent murder-suicide. Shortly after 2:30 on Easter morning, Statesboro police officers responded to reports of possible shots fired at Copper Beech Townhomes. Upon arrival, officers found APO Ian Huggins with multiple gunshot wounds. Moments after officers entered the home, Huggins' wife Rebecca Boyett Huggins took her own life with one gunshot to the head, stated the Police Department's first news release Sunday afternoon. The two were married less than two months earlier, on Feb. 14.
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Bulloch puts 3 well drillers on standby for Hyundai wells side effects mitigation
well drilling - Newkirk questions
Commissioner Nick Newkirk, right, seated beside Clerk of the Board Venus Mincey-White during Tuesday's meeting, raised questions about the still incomplete status of the Groundwater Sustainability Program and its mitigation fund, but joined in the "yes" votes on standby contracts for three well drilling companies. (AL HACKLE/staff)
After some questions, four Bulloch County commissioners unanimously approved standby contracts Tuesday with three well drilling companies who would make service calls, potentially lower pumps or even drill new wells for adversely affected private well owners within five miles of the four high-volume wells created to supply water to Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. The Bulloch County government owns two of the "Hyundai" wells and Bryan County owns the other two, although all four are geographically within southeastern Bulloch County near the Bryan County line. Together, the four wells are permitted by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to pump up to 6.625 million gallons per day on average over the course of a year. In a study summarized for the public in February 2024, EPD scientists predicted that the four large wells could draw down the water level in the deep Floridan aquifer by a maximum of 19 feet close to those wells. The "cone of depression" created by the withdrawal would slope upward from there, dropping the highwater mark about 10 feet at a five-mile distance from the wells, in the EPD's projections.
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