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People dance the Wobble at Coyote's Nightclub.

Analysis finds bulk of club crime reports on southside

During the past five years, while sheriff's deputies were summoned to 27 downtown clubs 227 times, officers responded to 312 other incidents - including three homicides - at 26 clubs in south Augusta.

By Susan McCord and Sandy Hodson

Aiken County bookings

Review updated jail bookings and mug shots from the Aiken County jail via our new Booked site.

Slideshow: Golf's Venturi dies

Review our photo gallery of the highlights from the career of golf's Ken Venturi, a U.S. Open champion and TV golf analyst.

Dining out this week?

Search our database of more than 300 Augusta restaurants.

Slideshow: Cotton Ball

Review almost 100 photos from Historic Augusta's Cotton Ball.

SLIDESHOW: Preakness Field

Browse a slideshow of the nine-horse field in today's 138th Preakness Stakes.

All eyes on Orb entering Preakness
Litke: Orb trainer gets shot at glory
Baffert, Rosario win Black-Eyed Susan
POST TIME: 6:20 p.m. | TV: NBC-26

Slideshow: Man & Woman of the Year

Check out almost 200 photos of the crowd at Friday's Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Man and Woman of the Year event at Sacred Heart.

Slideshow: Best & Brightest

Daniel Pippen, a North Augusta High School senior, was named The Augusta Chronicle's Best and Brightest 2013 winner Thursday night.

STORY: North Augusta senior wins honor
TOPICS PAGE: Graduations

Slideshow: High school proms

See how they look all dressed up in photos from this year's prom at Josey, as well as other schools.

North Augusta |Evans | Aquinas | Butler
Harlem | Augusta Prep | Fox Creek
Greenbrier | Lakeside | Laney | Glenn Hills

Crime data map released

A total of 182 crimes tracked by The Augusta Chronicle were reported to the Richmond County Sheriff's Office during the week of May 8-14, 2013. Violent crimes during the week included six robberies, one car-jacking and six aggravated assaults.

Slideshow: Remembering golf's Ken Venturi	Slideshow: Remembering golf's Ken Venturi
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Man, Woman of the Year	Welcome home ceremony for Delta Company, 297th Military Intelligence Battalion
Historic Augusta's Cotton Ball	2013 Best and Brightest

Metro »

Deputy's memorial, funeral announced

Richmond County sheriff's Deputy Alton Creech, who died Friday from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash, will be buried Tuesday after a ceremony at First Baptist Church of Augusta,

Sports »

Augusta no longer majoring in minor sports

Augusta has seen an exodus of its minor league franchises since former Augusta Mayor Bob Young famously said in 1999 the city "majors in minor sports."

By Chris Gay and David Lee

Oxbow upsets Orb in Preakness

BALTIMORE — Oxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown.

Afghan bomb kills Grovetown man

Audit finds GRU officials violated policy

Woman indicted in wrong-way crash

Powerball jackpot $600 million

2 honored for fundraising efforts

More Metro news »

Motorcycle deputy dies of injuries

Ex-deputies indicted in Columbia County

John Gogick: Treasure graduates' successes

GRU Summerville campus enrollment dips

Crime & courts »

Motorcycle deputy dies of injuries

Richmond County Sheriff's Office motorcycle deputy Alton Creech died Friday afternoon from injuries he sustained in an off-duty motorcycle crash Thursday.