Ohio State coach Ryan Day spent the weekend celebrating the program's ninth national championship, a crowning achievement for a group that had operated like one of the best teams in the country all year and then played some of its best football in the biggest moments with a challenging run through the College Football Playoff.

A man accused of killing a Georgia fire chief who’d stopped to help a driver who struck a deer has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting, a police official said Tuesday.

The Coweta County fire department is mourning the death of James Bartholomew Cauthen ... The Chamber's County sheriff's department said that there is a murder warrant for Franklin in Alabama. There was no attorney listed to speak on Franklin’s behalf ...

A Coweta County fire battalion chief, who was shot and killed recently in Alabama while trying to help a couple who‘d hit a deer with their vehicle, was brought back to Georgia on Thursday for his funeral next week.

The Coweta County fire chief was shot to death over the weekend when he stopped to help a stranger who had hit a deer in Alabama, investigators say.

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James Cauthen, a 54-year-old fire chief with Coweta County Fire in Georgia, was shot and killed while helping drivers who hit a deer in Alabama.

A fire chief was shot dead after trying to get help for a couple who had hit a deer in Alabama. According to officials in Chambers County, Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" Cauthen, 54, went to the home of 33-year-old William Randall Franklin for help. Franklin then allegedly opened fire unprovoked.

Authorities say murder charges have been issued for a man accused of fatally shooting a Georgia fire chief in rural Alabama.

A Georgia fire chief was shot to death in Alabama after stopping to help a couple whose car struck a deer, officials said.

Coweta County Fire Rescue continues to be devastated by the tragic passing of Battalion Chief Bart Cauthen,” the fallen chief’s department said in a statement on Monday.

James Bartholomew Cauthen was the battalion ... The Chambers County Sheriff's Department said that there is a murder warrant for Franklin in Alabama and that he will be arrested once he’s ...