Police: Attacks on girls similar
		Web-posted 10/11/2000   She was offered a shot at a modeling career. Instead, an 18-year-old woman in south Augusta nearly became another metro Augusta homicide.

	Disaster left mark on county
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   Ten years ago today, 29-year-old Shirley Nelson and her 23-year-old sister Malinda awoke to the sound of thunder.

	Police stop giving away gun locks
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   AIKEN - The Aiken County Sheriff's Office has halted the distribution of free gun locks in response to reports from two law enforcement agencies that the devices can spring open.

	Artist saves Halloween mural
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   After all these years, local airbrush artist Ken Rayburn Jr. was surprised his creepy creation survived.

	Teen-ager gets life in prison
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   An Augusta teen-ager who admitted his guilt in a double homicide was sentenced Wednesday to a lifetime behind prison bars.

	Candidates forum set for tonight
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   Seventeen candidates competing for five seats on the Richmond County school board will get a chance today to tell people why they should be elected.

	Legislators get tour
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   He couldn't take Augusta to Atlanta, so state Rep. Jack Connell did the next best thing: He brought the House Appropriations Committee to Augusta for a close-up look at the progress that has been made and the promise that future endeavors hold.

	South Carolina may lose funding
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   COLUMBIA - If South Carolina can't stop teen-agers from smoking, millions of federal dollars owed to the state for tobacco prevention could go up in flames.

	Resident says deputy attacked him
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   AIKEN - An 84-year-old Aiken County man is suing a sheriff's deputy for excessive force and assault and battery, claiming the officer was out of control when he attacked the man in 1999 while searching for the man's son.

	Artist pays tribute to fields
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   AIKEN - Trish Arnold's favorite childhood memory of her family's Dunbarton farm is the freedom she felt standing in the middle of its vast fields.

	Research group reaps dividends
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   The state's multimillion-dollar investment in high-tech science is beginning to pay off, Georgia Research Alliance President Michael Cassidy told a University of Georgia audience Tuesday.

	Three killed in wreck
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   Jefferson High School was in mourning Tuesday after students learned that a standout basketball player was among three men killed in a Monday morning car wreck.

	Admissions policies still too lax
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   ATLANTA - Georgia's public colleges have become more selective about the students they let in, but they should become pickier still, according to an analysis by the University System of Georgia released Wednesday.

	Council sets rule for trips
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - Georgia's Ethics In Government Act does not allow elected officials to take their families on all-expenses-paid trips sponsored by lobbyists, the State Ethics Commission declared Wednesday.

	Across the area
	Web-posted 10/11/2000   DOUGLAS - The University System of Georgia will begin regular review of all academic programs under a schedule approved Wednesday by the Board of Regents.