http://chronicle.augusta.com/business/ Local news from The Augusta Chronicle. en-us Copyright (c) 2010 The Augusta Chronicle. All rights reserved. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:12:40 -0500 5 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564833.shtml There was a time when Reginald Williams would text while driving, but that time ran out Tuesday. The Transportation Department's announcement that it would fine truck and bus drivers up to $2,750 for texting behind the wheel has changed his mind. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564833.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:23 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564839.shtml The Richmond County school board reluctantly approved funding for another year of Chinese language instruction at A.R. Johnson and the Academy of Richmond County, part of a Chinese Guest Teacher Program. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564839.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:27 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564827.shtml Authorities arrested two men Tuesday night in the shooting death of a 16-year-old earlier in the day. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564827.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:21 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564859.shtml In the past weeks, dozens of ministers and members at Trinity-on-the-Hill United Methodist Church posed for photos with their hands reaching high or stretching out toward the camera. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564859.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:33 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564825.shtml COLUMBIA --- An Edgefield County manufacturer is pumping $3 million into its yarn facility and spinning out 16 new jobs. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564825.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:20 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564832.shtml If you want Georgia and South Carolina individual income tax forms, don't wait for them to come in the mail. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564832.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:23 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564830.shtml The Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday was, by all accounts, the largest in the event's four-year history. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564830.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:22 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564823.shtml A Columbia County woman shot a neighbor's dog in her yard Tuesday after that dog and another one attacked and killed her small dog. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564823.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:20 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564835.shtml ATLANTA --- The Augusta-based Medical Center Authority could be getting a severe cut to its budget if lawmakers don't find alternatives to Gov. Sonny Perdue's recommendations. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564835.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:23 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564836.shtml Today's the big day. Early this morning we started shifting news content and data to a new augustachronicle.com site. Check out beta.chronicle.augusta.com to see our work in progress. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564836.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:25 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564844.shtml ATLANTA --- Records show the Senate's highest-ranking Democrat, along with several of his colleagues and Democratic House members, did not take the first round of furlough days accepted by most of their colleagues. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564844.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:29 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564864.shtml ATLANTA - Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to sell part of an environmental loan fund on Wall Street to plug a hole in the state budget, but critics say it will threaten local governments' ability to finance water and sewer improvements at a time when the funding is badly needed. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564864.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:44 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564863.shtml COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina teachers would take a pay cut and students would take fewer tests under cost-cutting measures that won initial legislative approval Tuesday. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564863.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:44 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564865.shtml COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's unemployment agency let cash to pay jobless benefits dwindle since 2001 and did nothing before 2008 to head off insolvency that has saddled employers with a $736.2 million debt, according to a state audit released Tuesday. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564865.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:44 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564868.shtml ATLANTA - A former federal prosecutor hired by gun manufacturer Glock to investigate fraud within the company has been accused of stealing about $3 million from the gunmaker. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564868.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:50 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564843.shtml A map of the 16-county coverage area for the Augusta Census Office is hanging on the wall behind office operations manager Henry Mober as he recruits census takers Tuesday in Augusta. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564843.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:29 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564817.shtml Police are trying to identify people who dug through a trash can outside Target for receipts then used them to return items they never purchased. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564817.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:18 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564845.shtml FORT STEWART, GA. - Fort Stewart officials say a 20-year-old Army soldier whose body was found in his barracks room appears to have died from accidental causes. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564845.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:53:29 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564866.shtml COLUMBIA, S.C. - Proposed legislation would prevent South Carolina governors from telling security details to leave them alone as Gov. Mark Sanford did before his rendezvous with an Argentine lover. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564866.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:06:49 -0500 http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564831.shtml This is a big rave for the Morris Museum of Art. I'm really excited and awaiting their new showing of the art there and their reopening. I visit there quite often. http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/27/met_564831.shtml Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:22 -0500