Slideshow: Estate sale

Businessman Gordon Farmer stuffed warehouses full of "treasures" that will be sold over four days in June.

Community lost respected newsmen

Our community lost two gracious, old newsmen Wednesday. I lost two friends. Allow me to tell you about them.
By Bill Kirby

Columbia County bookings

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

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. 

Notable Area Deaths of 2013

A review of several from our area who have passed away in the first part of 2013.

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.

Slideshow: Cotton Ball

Review almost 100 photos from Historic Augusta's Cotton Ball, held Thursday to raise money for the nonprofit.

SLIDESHOW: Welcome Home

The welcome home ceremony for 22 soldiers of Delta Company, 297th Military Intelligence Battalion was held at Fort Gordon on Friday.

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.

Neighbors, friends mourn victims

Retired Richmond County educators Roosevelt and Edna Jones had hearts of gold and a love for life that made everyone feel special, according to friends and neighbors mourning the Hephzibah couple.
By Wesley Brown and Tracey McManus

Grand jury to get deadly hit-and-run case

The criminal case against a Hephzibah man accused of vehicular homicide in the latest death of a bicyclist will proceed to the grand jury, a judge ruled Thursday.
By Sandy Hodson
Latest from Columbia County News-Times

Judge denies bond in 2012 River Glen slaying

Bond was denied Thursday for a suspect in a 2012 homicide at River Glen apartments that authorities believe might have caused a second slaying.

Editorial: Hiding is its own injury

This may be what we are taught by television and movies; to escape the consequences of our actions. To try to get away with it.

New home sales up in April

New-home sales increased 2.3 percent in April from March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 454,000, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That's only slightly below January's pace of 458,000.
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