Jeremy Turnage
Digital Content Manager
Augusta, GA
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Jeremy Turnage is the digital content manager of WRDW/WAGT and has been in that role since February 2019.
Jeremy comes to Augusta, GA via Columbia, SC where he spent nearly a decade at WIS News 10 in various digital content roles. He has covered three presidential elections, numerous hurricanes, the Dylann Roof trial, the removal of the Confederate flag from the State House grounds, and countless University of South Carolina football games.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2021 at 7:50 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
As parents, the Children’s Hospital of Georgia is a place you hope you never need, but one we are so thankful is there if we do.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2021 at 12:52 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Thirty-five cases of election violations associated with several recent elections are being referred to local law enforcement agencies across Georgia, the state Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Three men are charged with murder after a man was killed at an Augusta motel last week.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 11:18 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Eighty-five amateur women golfers will take part in the second Augusta National Women’s Amateur event at Augusta National Golf Club.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 10:32 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage and Celeste Springer
U.S. Attorney Bobby Christine may be one of several dozen President Donald Trump-appointed lawyers to be asked to resign by President Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 at 2:16 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
An almost year-old murder in Aiken County now has a second suspect charged in connection with the case.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 4:21 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Augusta University Health will be providing a limited amount of COVID-19 vaccines for Aiken Technical College.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 10:27 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
An additional $1.25 million in funding is allowing Augusta-Richmond County Commission to continue their Small Business Relief program after it was initially met with a “tepid” response.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 at 4:56 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage and Kennedi Harris
It’s been a long process, but Columbia County schools have a new superintendent after whittling down from a list of three finalists.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 at 11:38 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today the detection of two cases associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant that first emerged recently in South Africa. These are the first two cases of this variant in the United States.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 at 10:58 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A truck carrying what appears to be scrap materials overturned on Highway 1, causing parts of the road to be closed.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 4:52 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Residents at an Augusta area hotel chain were told to leave by hotel management with many of them without a place to stay.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2021 at 2:41 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A North Augusta man is facing murder and weapons charges following a shooting at the beginning of January.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 2:22 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
The Richmond County School System is resuming face-to-face learning next week.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 2:10 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Alvin Hester, the man accused of killing Investigator Cecil Ridley during a weapons search at a gas station, entered a not guilty plea on Friday morning.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 1:41 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
One person was taken to a nearby hospital following a shooting on 10th Avenue, investigators say.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 12:51 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
McDuffie County school officials say they are moving the district to a blended model for face-to-face students.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 9:03 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a man who they want to talk to about a fraud incident at an electronics store.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 6:39 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Making good on her promise, a Georgia congresswoman has already filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2021 at 2:12 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is on the search for a 16-year-old girl who went missing at the beginning of the month.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage and Brady Trapnell
Two Augusta area hospitals are interested in starting COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Aiken County, a local representative says.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 4:54 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
One South Carolina Congressman joined nine other Republicans in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 2:13 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Richmond County will use $1.25 million in CARES Act funding to help small businesses.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2021 at 4:18 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
An investigation is underway in Burke County after sheriff’s office deputies responded to a call in reference to a person who was struck by a car.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 4:23 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
As supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol building on Wednesday, Georgia politicians are joining a growing chorus asking for peace and for the protesters to leave.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 at 2:45 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Small. Tiny. Razor-thin. In the past several hours since the polls closed in Georgia, those have just been a scant few of the words used to describe the margins between the two sets of candidates.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 11:28 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
In Tuesday’s Georgia Senate runoffs, Richmond County showed its blue colors while neighboring Columbia County stayed steadfastly red, according to statistics.But they had two things in common.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 3:28 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Georgia Department of Public Health officials say a vairant of COVID-19 first discovered in the United Kingdom has been discovered in the Peach State.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 1:16 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
AU Health is pushing forward with a plan to convert the ICU at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia into an ICU for COVID-19 patients as the spike in positive cases continues to rise.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 10:14 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Doctors Hospital will put on hold all elective surgeries starting Wednesday to manage the surge of COVID-19.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 1:27 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Augusta University Health officials say the community is at the highest risk for COVID-19 transmission ever since the start of the pandemic.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 10:41 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Speaking to a crowd of Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock each shared what they plan to do if elected to the Senate.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2021 at 3:27 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
As severe weather swings through the area, a tornado warning has been issued for several counties in the western CSRA.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2021 at 1:54 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A pair of suspects looking to break into cars in the Burkehaven neighborhood got more than they bargained for after an astute homeowner detained them at gunpoint early Friday morning.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2021 at 11:39 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Allendale County School District officials are hoping to get out ahead of any potential rise in COVID-19 cases following winter break.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2021 at 9:22 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
The old saying, at least in Hollywood terms, has always been “there’s a new sheriff in town.”
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 2:44 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
President Donald Trump is coming back to the Peach State for a rally looking to boost Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 12:59 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A lawsuit accusing University Hospital of flushing a woman’s miscarried fetus down the toilet is moving forward toward a jury trial.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 9:50 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A 14-year-old girl who had almost been missing for a full month is back safe at her home.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2020 at 9:31 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
We’re still awaiting more information Monday morning after what South Carolina Department of Corrections officials called an “incident” at McCormick Correctional Institution on Sunday.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2020 at 2:52 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
For decades, NORAD has done parents and wayward children a solid and helped with tracking ol’ Saint Nick.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 2:08 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Aiken County investigators have charged a man in connection with a 2018 murder in Warrenville.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 1:05 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
It might be a little early, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are ready to accept real Christmas trees for recycling.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2020 at 3:24 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A 25-year-old Saint Matthews man has been charged in connection with a nightclub shooting that killed one and injured 14 others back in November.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Columbia County school leaders are investigating after a gun was found at an elementary school.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 2:34 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Two adults and five children live at a Beech Island home that caught fire, and some were there at the time but no one was injured.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 11:54 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Tell us what you think about when you think of Christmas scents. Do beautiful green balsams come to mind? How about peppermint and sugar? Maybe a nice holly bush?
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 4:51 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Republicans in the 12th Congressional District are suing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 12:21 PM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
A Swainsboro company is expanding its operations and bringing 100 more jobs to the area, Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Tuesday.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2020 at 11:54 AM EST
|By Jeremy Turnage
Days after the Cleveland Indians decided to change their name following years of social outcry, Georgia’s two senators are pressing the Atlanta Braves to stay put on their name.