Friday night is the first home game for Augusta’s newest pro sports team: the Augusta Spartans. The arena football team organized in about two weeks, and the question is already surfacing: will they make it?
Lamar Jackson was one of many who felt that no one cared about him and his comrades who served in Vietnam. But Friday in Augusta, he found out that some people are willing to do a lot to say thank you.
Superior Court Judge Carlisle Overstreet has dismissed a lawsuit against Augusta commissioners, the mayor and the government. Government watchdog Woody Merry filed that lawsuit in February after he says commissioner Marion Williams was abstaining from voting to prevent the mayor from breaking tie votes.
11-year-old Toby Alan Heffner, Jr. was found Friday at about 11 am. The boy left a note at his home Thursday saying he was running away and was missing since Thursday around 5:00 pm.
The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest of a Warrenville man suspected in a series of burglaries since December 2005 in North Augusta, Warrenville, Gloverville and Aiken, South Carolina.
Lamar Jackson served with the Army's First Cavalry Division in Vietnam in the early 1970’s. He lost his dog tags while serving.
Augusta was announced as one of the winners of the first Preserve America Grants this morning by First Lady Laura Bush in Washington, D.C. One of only 45 recipients, the city of Augusta has been awarded $50,000 to conduct a wayfinding plan that will emphasize the historic, cultural and heritage tourism resources of Augusta.
The Augusta Red Cross is sponsoring a “Free CPR Saturday” later this month. To participate, you have to sign up by Monday, March 13.
Richmond County Board of Education members sat in for a long three hours to determine Superintendent Charles Larke’s evaluation. Board members will continue with Dr. Larke’s review Tuesday.
He's performed all over the world, but Augusta native Timothy Boyd Miller got his start right here in Augusta. He started out singing in the church choir…and in February he soloed at the late Coretta Scott King's funeral.
Investigators say a man with a history of drunk driving killed a pedestrian and then ran. Christopher Vogt is in the Richmond County jail tonight under charges of vehicle homicide in the first degree, DUI and hit and run.
Members of the Richmond County Board of Education are meeting Thursday night, and the controversy surrounding the superintendent’s contract could come to a head.
It all started this afternoon just off Midland Valley Drive in Aiken County. That's where the Midland Valley golf course backs up to a number of homes. Scary moments there for a number of local folks and firefighters as well.
When Augusta deputies dealt with an incident downtown Wednesday, News 12 viewers saw some new equipment in action. Jonathan Martin shows you how Homeland Security money is helping our local officers.
The ruling regarding commissioners’ right to abstain from voting was expected this week. Now, attorneys for commissioners who support abstaining issued a brief citing a case from the Georgia Supreme Court...
A Richmond County student was arrested after school officials found marijuana in her hair. The school board reports that one of the girl's classmates at Murphey Middle School reported the drugs.
Christopher Vogt of North Augusta was arrested early Thursday. Deputies say he was driving a white Acura that hit a man walking on Greene Street, near the entrance to Calhoun Expressway.
You'll soon see higher water in the Savannah River below Thurmond Dam. Starting Friday, the Corps of Engineers is increasing water release to help fish migration.
Here’s some good news for Georgia’s teachers and state troopers. They may be getting their first significant raise in at least a decade.
Streets have reopened after the Richmond County bomb squad detonated a suspicious package. Traffic was backed up downtown for close to three hours Wednesday afternoon as Greene Street was blocked off at the corner of Monument Street.
Just two days after a man loses his life in a brush fire, another fire threatens lives on Moontown Road in Columbia County. News 12's Kate Tillotson is on your side with how victims there are coping.
Every 20 minutes in the state of Georgia, someone's diagnosed with cancer. In South Carolina it's one every 30 minutes. And in Georgia, every 40 minutes, someone dies of cancer. It’s one every hour in South Carolina. That's the reason for the new Cancer Research Center at MCG.
The call came in early in the morning...the shed outside John Blaylock's home on 4129 Bath Edie was on fire. "I said to myself, ‘There ain’t nobody knocking at the door at this hour’...and they knocked so loud it shook my bed," Blaylock says.
Investigators say Robert Rickerson tried to kick in the door of a home on Dorian Drive. But the homeowner grabbed his gun and fired at the door several times.
Bars and churches. Can they co-exist downtown? News 12's Meredith Taylor shows you why the Downtown Advisory Panel wants to make a change in that direction.
