Updated: 1:24 PM Of the 242 people who were retested in January and February, 19 had positive skin tests. No clinical cases of tuberculosis were found.

Updated: 12:50 PM It all started with the election in November and the charter school amendment. The amendment gave control of charter schools to the state, taking it away from the local board of education.

Updated: 7:57 PM College graduations are still a few months away, but that doesn't mean soon-to-be grads can't start looking for a job now.

Updated: 11:41 AM The City of Waynesboro will soon be loosing its Chief of Police. Alfonzo Williams has been recommended for public safety chief of Richmond County Schools, making it through the first step of the process.

Updated: 5:11 PM A flier a teacher wanted certain students to sign is raising eyebrows. As we celebrate Black History Month, one parent says the flier is offensive and the language is inappropriate.

Updated: 8:25 PM Professionals in Aiken are teaming up for a special project. They're building a path for students to walk to school safer. Right now, conditions aren't the safest for students living in Crosland Park.

Updated: 7:49 PM Georgia Regents University is putting good use to a $60,000 grant. They're making a video game for kids just starting school -- helping them learn to read.

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: 12:43 PM The Richmond County School System could soon have a new top cop, but that means another city will lose its police chief.

Updated: 7:10 PM Tonight, school leaders in Aiken County will discuss the future of one of the district's historic campuses. Leavelle McCampbell Middle School was built just after World War I. Now, a lot of people say its age has caught up with it.

Updated: 8:51 PM Board committee members have voted to approve Waynesboro Police Chief Alfonzo Williams as the new chief of public safety for Richmond County Schools.

Updated: 2:20 PM They are called STAR Students because they are in the top 10 percent or top 10 students in their class and have scored exceptionally well on the SATs.

Posted: 4:41 PM The five juveniles accused of starting a rumor about a student with a handgun at Swainsboro High School last week appeared in court on Monday.

Updated: 1:14 PM More than 630,000 customers are without power and six states have declared a state of emergency and all this is happening as a group of college kids from USC Aiken visited Boston.

Updated: 6:24 PM The Emanuel County Sheriff's Office says five students have been arrested after reports of a gun on school property Thursday. The Sheriff's Office says a staff member was alerted to the possibility of a student with a handgun at 10 a.m.

Updated: 9:14 PM A debate is lighting up around the GRU Summerville campus because in the fall, that's exactly what they won't be able to do. Starting in August, the campus is going tobacco-free.

Updated: 11:57 AM Association president Jack Claypoole says alumni have volunteered to meet with lawmakers to discuss legislation that might affect the state's colleges and universities.

Updated: 12:37 PM A new playground in Columbia County is making a lot more kids smile. The park is next to the main library, off of Evans Town Center Blvd. The one thing that makes the park different is that all kinds of kids can enjoy it.

Posted: 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: 8:03 PM In just the span of two weeks, two Columbia County students have taken their own lives. The untimely deaths are causing school leaders to take another look at how they talk to students about the tough subject.

Updated: 2:48 PM The Georgia Board of Regents has voted unanimously to hire University of Georgia Provost Jere Morehead to succeed Michael Adams as university president.

Updated: 11:49 AM News 12 has learned the McCormick K-12 Complex is without power. Students are on a delay Monday morning. The school will reopen at noon.

Updated: 11:49 AM Georgia Board of Regents Spokesman John Millsaps says the board is scheduled to discuss picking a president for the University of Georgia.

Updated: 4:18 PM Superintendent Roy Sapough says Barnwell Primary, Barnwell Elementary, Guinyard-Butler Middle and Barnwell High went into lockdown while law enforcement searched for a suspect.

Updated: 5:41 PM All seven branches of the Boys & Girls Clubs in the area are closed. Richmond County Deputy Superintendent Tim Spivey says all after-school programs, including athletic games and practices, have been canceled for Wednesday evening.