AIKEN — For hours Monday, people from Aiken County and elsewhere lined the streets of the city waiting to pay their respects to an officer many had never met.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is seeking an attempted murder charge against a North Augusta man who police say tried to run over a North Augusta Public Safety officer early Monday morning.
More residents in Columbia County are trying out house watches before leaving for vacation than in years past. This year, the county has completed 65,913 checks - up more than 8,000 from 2010.
Rain is possible for the majority of this week, but meteorologists at the National Weather Service in West Columbia expect Christmas Day to go by with only cloudy weather.
The Richmond Hill emergency response area had the highest number of crimes tracked by The Augusta Chronicle since the newspaper began collecting data the past six months for its weekly online ...
The coroner's office says Frank Brooks, 65, who had been homeless for several years, died of natural causes. His body was found Friday morning on Broad Street.
Last Dec. 8, hundreds of people and a camera crew crowded McCain Way, where Earnie Graham and her two children live, for the unveiling of a two-story "Extreme Makeover" home. A year later, the ...
Deputies were called to a Hephzibah church Tuesday after a pastor discovered $1,200 in change collected by the congregation's children had been stolen.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Jon Stevens, a second grade student from McBean Elementary School, "accidentally drowned" on April 13, while cleaning an in-ground pool off ...