Crime

Fire crews responded to a reported structure fire along Washington Road on Monday morning.

The brain of the former NFL player who killed five people in South Carolina before fatally shooting himself will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of professional athletes.

Richmond County deputies are looking for the suspect in an assault at a local fast-food restaurant.

Brandon Chapman faces multiple charges, including cruelty toward children, after a brief vehicle case in Augusta on Friday evening.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for a laser being pointed at an aircraft approaching the Savannah Air National Guard Base on March 9.

The father of the former NFL player accused of fatally shooting a prominent doctor from Rock Hill and four others has broken his silence.

Trenton Franks of Jackson, N.C., has been arrested and charged for setting fire to a home in Saluda County. It happened in December.

Early this morning, deputies found an unresponsive man in the street lying next to an electric scooter in Augusta.

Aiken Department of Public Safety is responding to a shooting at Crosland Park neighborhood in Aiken.

Learn more about a shooting in York County, S.C., that claimed the lives of five people and the alleged shooter and left one person fighting for his life.

South Carolina is one step closer to becoming the 48th state in the nation to pass a hate crime law.

S.C. state lawmakers have passed a hate crime bill and a bill removing the need for a concealed weapon permit to carry a gun

Here’s live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin in connection with the Minnesota the death of George Floyd.

Residents in the CSRA will soon have a chance to safely dispose of unused medications.

The Georgia attorney general is investigating overdoses in Richmond County that are blamed on counterfeit medications.

The trial of Derek Chauvin continues in connection with the death of George Floyd.

Richmond County sheriff’s deputies have made an arrest in connection with a shooting that happened Tuesday.

Cynthia Estrada-Lopez, 28, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison for killing her 4-year-old daughter, Lilly Lopez.

Billie Gene Burdette II is facing multiple arson charges connected to four separate fires reported early Easter morning.

Waynesboro Police are searching for Demari L. Crawford Crawford who has an outstanding arrest warrant for a motor vehicle theft that occurred in March.

Two men are undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds they received in two unrelated incidents that occurred over the weekend.

Nicole Monique Charleswell, 27, of Aiken, was charged late last month with striking a juvenile student in the stomach while working at South Aiken Baptist Day Care in February.

Emanuel Williams, reported missing late last year, has been found in Aiken County.

Dispatch says the call came in at 8:44 p.m. and one person is said to have suffered a gunshot wound.

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to prison for helping destroy evidence in the murder of the wife of a Fort Stewart soldier, according to the Southern District of Georgia.

Deputies have arrested a fugitive in Richmond County after a standoff this afternoon.

A woman was injured in Augusta today when she was shot with a pellet gun in the Raintree subdivision off Tobacco Road.

Nathaniel Jose Perez, of Spartanburg, was found bleeding from apparent cuts from a fence at the Tyger River Correctional Institution in Enoree.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp applauded the final passage of HB 479, an overhaul of Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute, a top priority of the legislative session after the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery.

A Greenbrier High School student was taken to juvenile court after a threatening message was found written on a classroom desk, according to authorities.