Winner in Barrow/Burns race still unclear; Copenhaver retains seat without runoff; some runoffs coming; both incumbent governors win; voter turnout met expectations.

As with all campaigns, this one had some surprises, but not many. Deke Copenhaver's runaway lead in the Augusta mayor's race is no surprise. His own polls showed him with at least 60 percent of the vote.

There was a scare today in Stapleton, Georgia when a voter came to the polls armed. 55-year-old Phillip Tyner arrivied at the polls with a loaded gun.

Four men want to lead the city of Augusta, and News 12 caught up with all of them today. Voting has been steady at the polls all afternoon, and the race for Augusta mayor is important to a lot of people.

It has been a rainy afternoon, and studies show that inclement weather tends to decrease voter turnout. However, today it hasn't. The Board of Elections expects a higher than average turnout.

A Richmond County school board race is drawing lots of attention. The Super District 9 seat is currently held by A.K. Hasan. The winner of the race will represent half the county.

Poll watchers from both the Democratic and Republican parties are keeping a watchful on this election, and two monitors from the Secretary of State's office are roaming Augusta's precincts.

After this election, there's one thing we will not miss: the negative campaign ads. It's a billion dollar industry...but is it really working?

Augusta mayoral race; District 4 Commission seat; voter turnout; voting monitors in Augusta.

It's one of your most basic rights, and everyone wants to know that every vote counts. Electronic voting machines have people keeping a close eye on tomorrow's vote.

A father faces charges after four pit bulls maul a 22-month-old boy to death. It happened over the weekend in Bamberg. The dogs apparently went into the sleeping child's room, dragged him out of bed, and attacked.

It's easy to adjust the volume on an iPod. But it gets loud, and that's a problem. It can be a serious strain on young ears, and even cause permanent damage.

Two Augusta families got the scare of their lives as bullets came whizzing past them in a drive-by shooting in broad daylight. It happened in the same area where there were three other shootings back in July and August.

13-year-old Desire Northington was thrown 60 feet from an Orbiter ride in October. Now there's concern that the ride may have been running backwards.

Badly decomposed skeletal remains were found just a few feet off of a small country road in Thomson, but no one knows how they got there, who the person was, or how they died.

According to the FBI, a burglary occurs every 15.4 seconds across the country. Are you doing everything you can to keep you and your family safe?

A leak of formic acid Saturday provoked an emergency response that closed Highway 125 and put the Savannah River Site on lockdown. The acid was in a storage tank when the leak began.

Mark Sanford rolled through North Augusta Saturday for some last minute campaigning, and his visit brought mixed reactions. Sanford rode in on a big bus filled with family.

It's a new start for a downtown tradition. First Friday with some new leadership. The team, hand-picked by Augusta's city administrator, wasted no time setting ground rules for vendors.

Body found in Thomson field; fire destroys Aiken home; Washington Road lane closure today; candidates out in force to drum up votes; get informed before you vote.

The Department of Labor has finished reinspecting the Orbiter, the ride 13-year-old Desire Northington flew off of last week. This story has cast a cloud over the Georgia-Carolina Fair from the beginning.

Thompson Wrecking says the Commission awarded a contract to another company over a technicality. Thompson says the other company is charging $250,000 more to do the job.

We all want our vote to count, but the fact is, there have been issues across the country with electronic voting machines, sometimes with votes not being counted.

A teen originally thought to have been kidnapped says it was all a misunderstanding. The man who was thought to be her kidnapper is still wanted on other charges.

If you or a loved one is in danger, you want help as quickly as possible...but a quick response isn't easy when phone lines are tied up. Local 911 centers say a majority of the calls coming in aren't real emergencies.