Local car repossession business seeing booming business despite national trend
Posted: 7:20 PM The 3-year-old family-owned business, which includes his brother and cousin, has seen a drastic increase in repossessions over the past two months.
Posted: 7:20 PM The 3-year-old family-owned business, which includes his brother and cousin, has seen a drastic increase in repossessions over the past two months.
Updated: 7:32 PM Operation will be moved to its former Sand Bar Ferry Road building in Augusta near Bobby Jones Expressway. The investment for the facility is expected to be over $6 million.
Updated: 2:16 PM Gov. Nikki Haley and officials from Recleim have announced that the recycler company will establish its first recycling plant in Aiken County, bringing with it 200 new jobs.
Updated: 5:55 PM News 12 has learned that Gov. Nikki Haley is going to make an announcement on Wednesday morning about a company coming to Aiken County.
Updated: 1:27 AM Filling our tanks is emptying our wallets. Prices at the pump have risen for 32 days straight, and unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll be getting a break anytime soon.
Updated: 9:41 PM Could Aiken County voters be asked to pay a more for schools again? Three years ago, a multi-million dollar bond referendum was defeated in a landslide, but the idea for a new one has come up again.
Updated: 12:32 PM A recent study by TransUnion ranks Augusta as the sixth worst in the nation when it comes to credit scores. Local experts worry this is only going to confuse people even more.
Updated: 9:44 PM North Augusta leaders unveiled the project in December. They've heard a lot of praise and anger, too. There are plenty of concerns about traffic and noise. But what's also creating concern is how they're going to pay for it all.
Updated: 1:31 PM You go to school for nearly 20 years, all with the hopes that when you graduate, you'll get a job. But with our area's unemployment rate up to 9.8 percent, that's not so easy.
Updated: 12:18 PM Apple Inc.'s stock has been falling since an earnings report on Wednesday. It fell another 1.8 percent on Friday to $442.60 for a market capitalization of $415.6 billion.
Updated: 3:46 AM A gloomy day on the unemployment front. New numbers show the unemployment rate in metro Augusta is up five-tenths of a point to nine percent. Augusta's not the only one suffering, however. In Jefferson county, the news gets worse.
Posted: 4:34 PM Michelin is expanding its presence in South Carolina with a project officials say will create 100 new jobs. Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday that the tire maker is spending $200 million to expand its rubber production plant in Anderson County.
Updated: 9:37 PM The home improvement retailer Lowe's plans to hire 54,000 part-time workers this spring, and company officials say they expect 9,000 of the jobs to become permanent positions.
Updated: 9:38 PM News 12 has learned a plant in Jefferson County is closing. The Glit Microtron plant in Wrens will be closing in 60 days, causing 120 people to be out of work.
Updated: 11:59 AM In Georgia, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 8.6 percent in December.
Updated: 7:49 PM Close to 80 people will be out of a job next month. International Paper's Augusta Mill announced Tuesday, plans for a permanent shutdown of one it's printers that makes paperboard.
Updated: 9:28 PM The Enova Wood Pellet Group will begin construction soon on a plant off Highway 80 in Warrenton. Sixty-five full-time jobs will need to be filled after the plant is completed.
Posted: 9:23 PM The December figure is up one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.5 percent in November. The rate was 9.4 percent in December a year ago.
Updated: 8:41 PM We could be a year away from a vote to bring the GreenJackets to North Augusta, but the debate is already heating up. It's a story News 12 continues to follow.
Posted: 12:09 PM A General Motors spokesman says the company is planning to open an information technology center in suburban Atlanta and is looking to create about 1,000 jobs in the area.
Updated: 7:37 PM It's been years in the making, but a popular wholesale store is finally coming to Aiken County, and some early construction has just begun. News 12 has updates on other retail projects too.
Posted: 7:57 PM Although April 15 may still seem like a long way away, it's not too early to start preparing for the tax season now. You only have five days left to maximize your 2012 returns.
Posted: 7:27 PM Four national retailers have agreed to recall more than 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners after at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of children nearly falling out of the recliners.
Posted: 1:29 PM The rate for metro Augusta declined to 8.5 percent in November. That is down one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.6 percent in October. The rate back in November 2011 was 8.8 percent.