Sitting near the middle of Georgia‘s 100-mile coast, Sapelo is the state’s fourth-largest barrier island, but one of its least-developed. The island is reachable only by boat.

The fact that those who died in the Sapelo Island disaster were older didn’t make this loss any less devastating. If anything, it made it more so.

A place like Sapelo Island includes Hogg Hummock, the last intact Gullah Geechee community in the Sea Islands of Georgia, with a lineage for some families that goes back more than 10 generations.

A 93-year-old woman and a beloved Methodist chaplain are among the victims who died when a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island Saturday, killing seven and leaving eight hospitalized.

Three people remain in the hospital after a fatal ferry dock collapse in Sapelo Island that killed seven people Saturday afternoon. Four of the victims were from Jacksonville, the McIntosh County ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Regina Brinson heard a crack before the metal walkway gave way beneath her feet, plunging her into the water beneath the state-operated ferry dock on Georgia's Sapelo Island ...

The families of the victims of the deadly Sapelo Island dock collapse are calling for a federal investigation into why the aluminum gangway failed when it was supposed to be able to support the ...

None of the victims were Sapelo Island residents, Rabon said. The following people were confirmed dead: Jacqueline Crews Carter, 75, Jacksonville; Cynthia Gibbs, 74, Jacksonville; ...

Jacquelyn Carter, 75, was a third member of the Jacksonville seniors club who died on Sapelo Island. She had planned several upcoming trips, according to her daughter Vanessa Williams.

A place like Sapelo Island includes Hogg Hummock, the last intact Gullah Geechee community in the Sea Islands of Georgia, with a lineage for some families that goes back more than 10 generations.

Three people remain in the hospital after a fatal ferry dock collapse in Sapelo Island that killed seven people Saturday afternoon. Four of the victims were from Jacksonville, the McIntosh County ...

A place like Sapelo Island includes Hogg Hummock, the last intact Gullah Geechee community in the Sea Islands of Georgia, with a lineage for some families that goes back more than 10 generations.