Workshops seek public input on development
Augusta Tomorrow Inc. and the cities of Augusta and North Augusta will hold public workshops Monday and Tuesday to gather input on coordinated efforts to develop the downtowns of the two cities.
For the past six weeks, ICON architecture has been collecting data about the area, and it now wants the public to comment on developments that will focus on places to live, work and play.
The meetings will be from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Richmond County Board of Education office, 864 Broad St., and 4 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Public Safety Hut, 501 E. Buena Vista Ave. in North Augusta.
For more information, call Augusta Tomorrow at (706) 722-9100.
Man gets life sentence in Burke County death
One of the murder suspects in an August 2006 Burke County homicide was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years.
Michael Bernard Jones was found guilty in Burke County Superior Court, said Assistant District Attorney Johnny Markwalter. Charges are still pending against Anthony Lamar Herrington.
The men were arrested in the shooting death of Curtis Howard Jr., 41. The Athens resident was found dead in the bed of a pickup at an empty home on Horseshoe Road.
Michael Thomas pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the case and was sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years' probation. Michael Craig Fields received the same sentence for concealing a death, Mr. Markwalter said.
Police release names of burglary suspects
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office has identified two men arrested Thursday morning in connection with two burglaries at a Montmorenci convenience store.
Angelo D. Hatcher, 20, and Jermaine A. Goddard, 22, both of Montmorenci, are in jail on charges of second-degree burglary.
Lt. Michael Frank said in a statement that deputies arrested the men between 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. in a home in the 120 block of Psalm Circle, where they recovered lottery tickets, beer, cigars and candy stolen from Montmorenci Junction on Charleston Highway.
Authorities arrested a Hephzibah High School junior Friday accused of being involved in an April shooting.
Richmond County sheriff's deputies picked up Martin Holmes, 17, of the 2900 block of Gingrinch Court, Hephzibah, about 8 a.m. at the school and charged him with aggravated assault and second degree criminal damage to property, Investigator Cheryl Dorsey said. Mr. Holmes and Dyshawn Brooks, 18, were involved in a fight at Hephzibah High on April 23 that continued at the Sand Ridge Subdivision, Investigator Dorsey said. In the midst of the fight, two rounds were reportedly fired into the tire and bumper of a resident's 2003 Ford Taurus.
Mr. Brooks also was charged with aggravated assault and second degree criminal damage to property. Investigators say they believe the incident could be gang related and more arrests might be made, Investigator Dorsey said.
-- From staff reports
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