The Aiken County Sheriff's Office says the incidents are related and that they are following a few different leads. Various items were stolen, including purses and radios.

The victim told the assistant principal that she had been forced to have sex with two students at a home on Firetower Road.

One Augusta woman is out $650 and a two-story house all because of a scam on Craigslist. As News 12's Christie Ethridge reports, the victim of the scam is afraid this could happen again.

Columbia police are preparing for the big crowds expected after the Georgia-South Carolina football game Saturday night.

Sgt. Jake Mahoney with the Aiken Department of Public Safety says no arrests have been made at this time, but all of the burglaries are under investigation.

Surveillance video caught Mark Andrew Lewis, a former employee, driving his convertible onto the lot and then breaking into the cars on Sept. 23.

Officers were called to the scene after getting reports of a fight between a father and a son. When they got to the home on the 100 block of Poplar Place, a woman opened the door and said a man inside assaulted her.

The two black males walked into the Bransford Townhomes office and demanded cash from the employee on Monday afternoon.

Carolyn Brown, who lived at the home, was the primary caretaker for her 85-year-old father. Deputies say her father was in poor health and was not being properly cared for. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

One man, several teenagers and even a 12-year-old in are in jail after the Waynesboro Police Department busted what they call an organized crime ring.

Marlin Dean, 19, was indicted on burglary and theft by receiving stolen property charges. Dean allegedly stole over $20,000 in jewelry from her adopted mother, Renee Dean, in July.

School public safety officers arrested Tobias Veal Saturday and charged him with having a weapon on school property.

The burglar was wearing a short-sleeved blue shirt, blue jeans, a black New Era Oakland Athletics baseball hat and black Nike tennis shoes.

Ryan Dougherty and Lee Grace Dougherty on Monday entered new pleas in federal court in Valdosta. They will return for sentencing on Dec. 17.

Investigators say 19-year-old Brandon Rashad Mickens was booked Sunday evening. We're told his father had him turned in to law enforcement.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Thursday charged 26-year-old Connell Montigo Muskelly of Augusta, Ga., with murder.

Leonard Sapp's charges were too advanced for the magistrate court judge to decide bond, so the case was deferred to superior court. Sapp was taken back into custody.

North Augusta Public Safety officers arrested Leaphart back on Feb. 17. Investigators say he was approaching women and asking for money.

An Augusta city worker was arrested for the second time last week. He is not just any employee. He is a manager. There are also concerns about a possible conflict of interest when it comes to the consequences at work.

An Augusta man is in the Richmond County Jail for allegedly kidnapping a mother and her child.

Waynesboro Police Officers conducted a round up of suspected drug dealers after a 40-day investigation.

Since no one is in custody yet, investigators aren't releasing a lot of facts in the case. They will only say it was murder, with odd circumstances, and they are still looking for the killer.

Carteret County deputies think Abigale Faith Lefevers is with a registered sex offender, 38-year-old Timothy Newman. Investigators say she had been communicating with Newman in recent weeks.

The girl was strapped into a car seat behind the driver's seat with the car running. Officers waited for 20 minutes until the mother came back to the car.

Investigators say they were serving a warrant for aggravated assault at the home when they found the drugs, the guns and an inactive hand grenade.