Outdoor watering ban set
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   Billy Clayton had his own version of meter shock Tuesday morning -- and that kicked the county's water restriction plan into high gear.

	Gasoline prices expected to rise
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   Prices at the pump have fallen steadily in the past two months as oil-producing nations eased embargoes on crude oil, but that trend is coming to an end.

	Growers set to plant in dry soil
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   Like many farmers in Burke County and the surrounding area, Cleve Mobley said he doesn't know where to begin when talking about the current drought choking the region.

	Group wants Scouts' property condemned
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   Economic development officials will ask Augusta city government to condemn an acre of property owned by the Boy Scouts of America.

	Former mayor backs Strength for sheriff
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   It was an endorsement sealed with several pounds of fried catfish and freshwater bream.

	Airport directors cooperate
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   On Sunday morning, away from the distractions and hectic pace only a workweek can bring, Tim Weegar and Buster Boshears sat down and talked about their airports.

	Argument, beating lead to murder charge
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   An argument between customers at a south Augusta eatery has led to a murder charge against a 25-year-old house painter.

	Dispute puts fish in peril
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   A dispute over opening and closing New Savannah Bluff Lock to allow migrating shad to reach upstream spawning grounds could reduce future populations of the fish in the Savannah River.

	Lawyer disputes hopeful
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   Woodrow Fryer's candidacy to become the next sheriff of Richmond County in November was challenged Tuesday because he allegedly didn't fulfill a qualifying requirement.

	'Chronicle' promotes new editors for sports, metro
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   The Augusta Chronicle named two interim editors to permanent positions Tuesday.

	Officials to attend convention
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   AIKEN -- Two veteran Democratic Party officeholders from Aiken County have been elected delegates to the convention in Los Angeles in mid-August.

	Parents pick design for school
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   The lot on Fort Gordon's Avenue of the States bears a sign proclaiming it as the site of a new Richmond County elementary school.

	Police standoff leads to arrest
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   WARRENVILLE -- A three-hour standoff ended peacefully Tuesday after a resident surren-dered to sheriff's deputies.

	Confederate flag splits House
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's House of Representatives is only a few votes shy of removing a Confederate flag from its Capitol dome and legislative chambers, but those few votes were elusive Tuesday as the House painfully struggled with what members say seems simple to outsiders but clearly is not easy for them.

	Questions linger in man's death
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   AIKEN -- Forensic pathologists who performed an autopsy on a man found dead in a wooded area Monday have ruled out homicide, but the exact cause of death is not yet known.

	Family business
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   Sunbelt Nissan Vice President Mike Watson and his family officially opened their third dealership in the Augusta area Tuesday, at 3300 Washington Road. Mr. Watson's father, Jim, opened the first Sunbelt Nissan on Peach Orchard Road 37 years ago. Helping Mr. Watson celebrate Tuesday were his wife, Sandra (from left), Matthew, Michael, his mother, Janelle, and Courtney.

	Bush touts education platform
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. -- When presumptive Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush wanted to find out how parents like the English as a Second Language program at High Point Elementary School in this Atlanta suburb, he went straight to the source.

	Fire guts historical building
		Web-posted 5/9/2000   SAVANNAH -- Tywan Gonzalez was finishing one of his final exams when he heard the sirens Monday night.

	Man stabs to death family, then kills self
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   NICHOLSON, Ga. -- Calvin Griffin, his eyesight failing, his marriage in peril, increasingly withdrew from the outside world in the final months of his life.

	Insurance costs to increase
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   ATLANTA -- Insurance premiums for some University System of Georgia employees likely will jump 15 percent in August if the Board of Regents approves the measure today.

	Story of brutal Marine not credible to friends
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   SAVANNAH -- Olivia Palmer Gaines was 15 when her boyfriend, Pfc. James ``J.D.'' Robinson, joined the Marines in World War II. She remembered him as an intelligent young man who was going away to better himself.

	Agents probe Coffee County sheriff's office
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   DOUGLAS, Ga. -- FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents pored over documents Monday at the Coffee County Sheriff's Department as they executed a search warrant to view files involving drug cases.

	Across the area: Death penalty case draws local jurors
	Web-posted 5/9/2000   Twenty-five Augusta residents have qualified so far this week to fill a pool of potential jurors for a death penalty sentencing trial.