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Avondale workers seek out new jobs at career fair

Posted: 7:17 PM Hundreds of former textile workers spent the day looking for a new career. All are losing their jobs at Avondale Mills, in part because of last year's deadly train wreck. Today the first day of a company sponsored job fair for employees.

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Coroner: Jackson sought to hide pregnancy from parents

Posted: 10:30 AM Officers arrested 22-year-old Tomecca Jackson on Saturday, June 24 at her home at 502 Frances Street in North Augusta. Her pregnancy was a secret the coroner says Jackson was trying to hide from the last people she'd want to find out about it: her parents.

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John Pike to serve as teacher, not principal, next school year

Posted: 7:30 PM Greenbrier Elementary principal John Pike has been demoted to a teacher. Pike and his lawyer appeared before the Columbia County school board in a public hearing Monday, June 26. Superintendent Tommy Price and his attorney brought forth charges...

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SC governor Sanford signs eminent domain legislation

Posted: 6:39 PM If the government wants to take your land, it may be harder for them to do it--at least in South Carolina. Governor Mark Sanford visited Aiken Monday, June 26 to sign a new bill on eminent domain.

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Woman's body found outside Aiken home

Posted: 4:24 PM Aiken Public Safety officers are trying to find out whose body was found on the 500 block of York Street on Friday, June 23. Aiken County coroner Tim Carlton tells News 12 the body of the white woman was lying outside a home.

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Late-night Augusta shooting leaves man dead

Posted: 11:36 AM Another shooting in a downtown Augusta neighborhood has police searching for a killer and neighbors frightened for their lives. It's the second murder in the past month in one of Augusta's most dangerous parts of town, and neighbors say the problems are getting worse.

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Recreation and Parks Department works to trim budget

Updated: 11:39 AM Augusta's summer activities and special events could be on the chopping block. The city's cutting the budget, and while 15 percent may not seem like a big number, for Augusta's Recreation and Parks Department, it is.

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Augusta family in deadly wreck in Tennessee

Posted: 8:05 PM A family from Augusta was in a deadly wreck on I-75 just over the Georgia-Tennessee border. A ten-year-old child is dead, and four other family members were hurt.

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Waynesboro woman stabbed to death by friend

Posted: 7:16 PM A heated argument between neighbors and friends turns deadly in Burke County. It happened Thursday night, June 22, around 10 o'clock on the 700 block of Savannah Avenue. That's just off Highway 56.

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324th Signal Battalion ships out

Posted: 6:02 PM They're leaving homes, families, and jobs, putting their lives on hold to serve their country. Army reservists boarded buses early this morning, the first steps of a journey that will land them in the middle of the Iraq war.

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Victim missing from Burke County wreck

Posted: 5:14 PM Investigators are looking for the people involved in a wreck in Burke County early Friday morning. It happened just before 2:00 a.m. off Highway 56 North, near the Richmond County line.

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Current neighbors of sex offenders agree with Georgia HB 1059

Posted: 3:54 PM Hundreds of Georgia's sex offenders are faced with financial burdens, forced to move out of their homes thanks to a new law...and they have just two weeks to relocate. Some neighbors we spoke with say that's just too bad for the sex offenders.

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Radio Cab loses airport contract

Posted: 3:12 PM The Augusta Aviation Commission decided not to renew Radio Cab's contract June 22. Seven cab companies had previously filed lawsuits against the aviation commission, the consolidated government, and Radio Cab.

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Dumb and Dangerous Driving - June 22, 2006

Updated: 2:22 PM At a neighborhood off Two Notch Road in Aiken, speeders are a big problem. Drivers use this neighborhood road as a shortcut to avoid busy areas. About a year ago a four way stop came in to slow things down a little bit. But a viewer tells us the problem never quite went away.

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