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Parking meters out, more enforcement in for downtown
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Last Updated: 10:34 AM 02/05/10 - Parking meters for downtown Augusta are no longer being considered, but stronger enforcement of current parking limits is now in the works, the Downtown Development Authority said Thursday. (Full Story)
Update: Lumpkin Road is reopened to traffic
Last Updated: 3:18 PM 02/04/10 - Richmond County dispatch says a downed power line had traffic blocked on Lumpkin Road at Augusta Tech Drive. (Full Story)
Important update on Fort Gordon gate construction
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Last Updated: 3:40 PM 02/04/10 - A release from Fort Gordon today provides good news and bad news for people traveling to the base. (Full Story)
Deputies unsure how to enforce texting ban if passed
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Last Updated: 10:51 AM 02/04/10 - Some law enforcement officers say it is not just texting or making phone calls that's the problem, but distracted drivers in general. When we're behind the wheel many of us are concentrating on other things and not the road. (Full Story)
Cops: Driver used mannequin in car pool lane
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Last Updated: 10:12 AM 02/04/10 - An alert sheriff's deputy became suspicious this week when he saw the "passenger" wearing sunglasses and using the visor on an overcast day. (Full Story)
Update: School bus involved in accident in Warrenville
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Last Updated: 4:12 PM 02/03/10 - South Carolina Highway Patrol and the Aiken County Sheriff's Office are on the scene of an accident involving a school bus. (Full Story)
Ice, speed causes of accident on Belvedere-Clearwater Road
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Last Updated: 2:01 PM 02/01/10 - South Carolina Highway Patrol tells News 12 that ice on the road caused an accident on the 800 block of Belvedere-Clearwater Road this morning. (Full Story)
Neighbors call Johnston sinkhole "life or death" situation
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Last Updated: 7:15 PM 01/29/10 - The rush of water flowing from one side of Holmes Pond road to the other is one of the issues causing some sinking sand. (Full Story)
Paving to be done at Gate 5
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Last Updated: 1:06 PM 01/28/10 - Beginning Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:00 a.m., Fort Gordon’s Gate 5 will be closed to inbound traffic. (Full Story)
Accident backs up traffic on Ascauga Lake Road
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Last Updated: 10:16 PM 01/27/10 - Traffic is backed up all the way to Highway 25 (Full Story)
UPDATE: Aiken Augusta Highway reopened after accident
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Last Updated: 9:35 AM 01/25/10 - An accident on Aiken Augusta Highway had it shut down this morning in Bath and Clearwater. (Full Story)
Richmond County investigators searching for 2 suspects
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Last Updated: 2:16 PM 01/23/10 - They say the two men are wanted for a robbery at Huntington Apartments on the 2900 block of Perimeter Parkway. (Full Story)
Update: Fatal accident on Mike Padgett Highway
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Last Updated: 11:28 PM 01/22/10 - Richmond County investigators closed down part of Mike Padgett Highway after a fatal accident.

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Georgia bill would ban texting while driving
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Last Updated: 7:14 PM 01/22/10 - Experts say texting and driving is dangerous, but some Georgia law-makers also want to make it illegal. (Full Story)
Two kids recovering after being hit getting on school bus
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Last Updated: 11:21 AM 01/22/10 - Two families are counting her blessings after a driver hits two young boys waiting on the school bus. (Full Story)
Bus-ambulance crash in North Augusta
Last Updated: 1:07 PM 01/21/10 - A Best Friends Express bus collided with a Capital City ambulance near Alta Vista and West Buena Vista avenues. (Full Story)
Two-car wreck on Barton Chapel Road
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Last Updated: 7:13 PM 01/20/10 - Richmond County investigators have re-opened Barton Chapel Road after an accident there. Dispatch tells News 12 two cars crashed into each other at the 2300 block around 4:08 am. (Full Story)
Accident in Thomson causes traffic delays
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Last Updated: 8:25 PM 01/19/10 - An accident has tied up traffic throughout Thomson since shortly before midday. (Full Story)
Only on 12: New Ellenton neighbors stuck with muddy mess
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Last Updated: 7:10 PM 01/18/10 - David Dunbar says living on Williamson Avenue in New Ellenton is a nightmare every time it rains. He says once the rains come, so do the problems with getting to and from his home. (Full Story)
Tree blocked Hwy 125 in Aiken County
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Last Updated: 8:57 PM 01/17/10 - Highway 125 is back open after a down tree blocked lanes Sunday evening. The backup happened on the Savannah River Site in Aiken County. (Full Story)
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