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.
Columbia County School District leaders have adjusted their school schedule after the Augusta National Golf Club moved to continue with the Masters in November without fans.
Members of the golf community are beginning to react after the Augusta National Golf Club announced Wednesday the 2020 Masters tournament would be played without patrons.
The Augusta National Golf Club has ruled there will be no patrons at the Masters this year.
Columbia County School District leaders are confirming several more cases of COVID-19 days after the district opened.
The Richmond County Coroner is on the scene after sheriff’s investigators say an Augusta Transit bus hit a person Tuesday.
Burke County officials are releasing more information after a body was found in a wooded area off Highway 56 South.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not issue a mask mandate for schools in the Peach State, but will leave it up to the individual districts.
Citing a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Warren County over the past week, Warren County school officials have moved to close schools effective immediately.
Over 18,000 students in Richmond County will be starting the school year virtually, officials from the Richmond County School System say.
Mayor Hardie Davis has tapped 11 people to come up with a plan regarding several of the city’s monuments, buildings, and streets that honor Confederate military officers.
The Columbia County School District has confirmed another positive COVID-19 case at a district high school.
A woman backing out of her driveway is being charged with homicide by vehicle following a crash that killed another woman.
With the continuing rise of COVID-19 cases in Georgia, state Department of Public Health and emergency officials are opening a “mega testing” site in Atlanta.
A pair of Grovetown residents arrested last year on child pornography charged have been indicted by the federal government.
Officials with CAVE are warning residents about a group of people they say are part of a Medicaid-Medicare scam involving COVID-19 antibody testing.
Residents in the CSRA are continuing to get tested for COVID-19, but AU Health is monitoring a worrying issue -- a rise in positive cases.
After the ACC moved to reimagine the fall sports schedule due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference unveiled the football schedule Thursday.
Two days after students in the district returned to school, the Columbia County School District says they’ve confirmed three cases of COVID-19.
As the sporting world continues to wrestle with moving forward in a world still in the grips of a pandemic, many are beginning to wonder about the status of the Masters in November.
Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree says the sheriff’s office is investigating after video of a large gathering at The Country Club surfaced on social media.
With cases in Richmond County continuing to rise, Mayor Hardie Davis is extending his mask order for an additional 30 days.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says an 81-year-old Richmond County woman last spotted on Aug. 2 has been found.
The back and forth and back and forth on the demolition of the old jail on Walton Way appears to be, well, back.
The caretaker of an elderly Richmond County woman stole her client’s debit card and made multiple purchases with it, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says an 18-year-old is charged in connection with several sexual incidents involving a minor that spanned over two years.
Twenty-four hours after their bodies were found, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified two people discovered dead inside a Warren County residence.
A 65-year-old woman is charged with murder after Columbia County Sheriff’s Office investigators say her mother died after she was shoved to the ground.
Investigators with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are helping the Warren County Sheriff’s Office after two people were found dead.
Three dozen more South Carolina school districts have gotten approval from the state Department of Education to reopen.
After fire officials responded to a gas leak on Washington Rd on Friday, officials have confirmed that repairs have been completed.
COVID-19 is the cause of yet another canceled event in the CSRA.
South Carolina education superintendent Molly Spearman gave approval to 25 more districts -- including several in the CSRA -- to reopen schools.
Georgia’s burgeoning film industry continues to be the talk of Hollywood, and Hollywood is showing its appreciation.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a briefing Wednesday afternoon just as over 85,000 residents have tested positive for COVID-19.
During a meeting on Wednesday, the Aiken County School District board voted to push the start date of schools back to August 31.
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Deputies have arrested a suspect who is accused of killing a man over a game of basketball in Orangeburg County.
After years of back-and-forth, Augusta Commission leaders voted Tuesday to end remediation of the old jail on Walton Way and proceed with demolition.
Bamberg County School District 2 is zeroing in on its plans to open school this year, but with some caveats.
A report from a sheriff’s deputy sheds new light on the case of a woman who’s been charged with battery at a local grocery store.
Last August, 7-month-old Zane Williams was seriously injured in a crash that killed his mother in Wyoming.
‘No one will ever forget his name’: On his 14th birthday, street renamed in Melquan Robinson’s honor
A street was dedicated Monday to the local 12-year-old who died at Fleming Park.
The Richmond County Coroner’s Office is now investigating after the bodies of a woman and two small children were found in a submerged car in Mayor’s Pon.
Warren County students will return to school with a new schedule and vigorous efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, district officials detailed to News 12 on Friday.
As school districts across the CSRA are buttoning up their back-to-school plans, Bamberg County School District 2 looks to join the list.
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Georgia Sen. David Perdue praised a new defense spending bill that just passed the Senate and says it will help the Garden City.
Just one day after they solidified their back-to-school plans, Aiken County School District officials were pushed to think again after Gov. Henry McMaster asked districts statewide to consider bringing kids back for a full 5-day schedule.
Another school district has opted to delay the start of school citing concerns over the recent spike in COVID-19 cases locally.
With fears of COVID-19 still causing many events to be canceled locally, statewide, and nationwide, festival organizers with Arts in the Heart say they are canceling their event as well.
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Deputy Caleb Pye has had numerous violations of Richmond County Sheriff’s Office policy even before the July 4 incident that saw him suspended.
The McDuffie County School District says they’re pushing back the start date for students by two weeks due to the continued spike of COVID-19.