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Richmond County sheriff's deputies are looking for a woman they say has been missing since Wednesday night.
Sheriff's Investigator Ron Sylvester said Katherine Ann Sizemore, 45, was last seen at 10 p.m. Wednesday leaving a friend's house on Sterling Drive, on her way home to Windsong Way.
She was driving a blue 1998 Ford Explorer, with Georgia license plate 92774 QC.
Investigator Sylvester said Ms. Sizemore had no known medical problems. He said foul play was not suspected.
Anyone with information about Ms. Sizemore's whereabouts is asked to call the Richmond County Sheriff's Office at 821-1020 or 821-1080.
Police say teenager had knife at school
Richmond County sheriff's deputies arrested a 15-year-old girl at an Augusta high school and charged her with carrying a knife on school grounds.
Sheriff's Lt. James Young said the 15-year-old was charged Wednesday afternoon at A.R. Johnson Health, Science and Engineering Magnet High School as a juvenile with carrying a weapon on school property.
Officials found that the girl had pulled out a pocketknife with a 4-inch blade during a fight, Lt. Young said.
The girl, whom he did not name because of her age, told authorities she carried the knife because was tired of "being picked on," the lieutenant said.
Man says gun held to his head didn't fire
An Augusta man told Richmond County sheriff's deputies that someone put a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun didn't fire, a police report states.
Samuel Hudson, 21, said that on Wednesday afternoon, while he was at home in the 1100 block of Maxwell Street, a group of men came over to fight him.
Mr. Hudson said one of the men threatened to kill him and put a 9 mm pistol to his head.
He told police the man pulled the trigger, but the pistol did not fire. The man then ran away.
Police arrest 2 men in string of burglaries
Richmond County sheriff's investigators have arrested two people they said were involved in smash-and-grab burglaries at several convenience stores last month, officials said Thursday.
Sheriff's Sgt. Ken Rogers said Jonathan Renaldo Cox, 36, of Louisville, Ga., and Randy C. Berrian, 40, of Augusta, were charged with burglary.
The sergeant said stores along Gordon Highway and Wrightsboro and Tobacco roads were broken into and many cartons of cigarettes were taken in late November.
Girl who was hit by bus moved to Atlanta
Tyeisha Mims, the Sego Middle School girl who was seriously injured when a bus rolled over her after a fight, was moved Thursday to a rehabilitation center in Atlanta.
Tyeisha, 13, was taken to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, where she is expected to remain for three months to four months while undergoing rehabilitation for broken bones and damaged organs caused by the Nov. 22 bus accident .
Authorities say the teenager was fighting with a classmate when the bus's front door opened and Tyeisha fell out. The back wheels of the bus then rolled over her, causing pelvic fractures, a broken right leg and a ruptured bladder that required six surgeries.
Documents detail previous bus fights
Bus drivers transporting Sego Middle School pupils handled at least three other major disruptions before a girl was run over by a bus Nov. 22, according to documents released Thursday.
On Nov. 10, a seventh-grader threw candy at a sixth-grader and said, "Do something." A resulting argument escalated at their bus stop, where the younger boy ran inside his house and returned with a kitchen knife to scare the older boy away.
A tribunal panel ordered in-school suspension for the sixth-grader and a year of alternative school for the seventh-grader.
On Nov. 8, a brawl erupted among several pupils after a seventh-grader threw a shoe at another boy. An officer was needed to break up the fight.
The seventh-grader was assigned to alternative school for the rest of the year.
On Oct. 27, two pupils got off a bus and immediately started fighting - they hit each other with belts and one choked the other.
The tribunal panel allowed the school to determine punishment because there were no major injuries.
Jackson to get grant to improve its water
The town of Jackson will receive a $250,000 grant from the South Carolina Office of Local Government to help reduce radium in its water.
The money will be used to purchase and install a new water well that will lower radium 226 and 228 isotopes in the town's water supply to a level within state and federal drinking water standards. Jackson has been under a Department of Health and Environmental Control consent order for exceeding the radium levels since 2000.
Town officials said they expect construction of the well to begin in January.
Authorities say armed man robbed woman
A Richmond County investigator said a man armed with a handgun robbed a parking lot attendant Thursday night.
Investigator Glen Rahn said the robbery occurred at a city parking lot at 10th and Tattnall streets at about 10:30 p.m.
The man, dressed in all black, pointed a large silver handgun at the woman, took several hundred dollars and fled down Reynolds Street, Investigator Rahn said.
The woman was not hurt, he said.
Waffle House worker reports theft from safe
A Waffle House employee told Richmond County sheriff's deputies someone stole $1,096 from the office safe between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 6:30 a.m. Thursday.
According to a sheriff's office incident report, Carl Lamar Ealy told deputies that when he arrived at the George C. Wilson Drive restaurant Thursday, he noticed locks missing from the office door and safe.
Most schools will hold evening graduations
Richmond County students prefer evening graduations, and that's what most of them will get.
The school board agreed Thursday to follow the wishes of seniors at six high schools that are holding stadium ceremonies in May.
In various polls, only Cross Creek seniors voted for a 9 a.m. graduation, which will be held May 24.
Holding 7:30 p.m. ceremonies May 24 are Academy of Richmond County, Butler and T.W. Josey high schools. On May 27, Westside and Glenn Hills high schools will hold 7:30 p.m. ceremonies.
Also Thursday, the school board voted to rent Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center for $6,613 on May 23 and hold ceremonies for Hephzibah High School, Lucy C. Laney High School and both senior-level magnet schools. None will be held at Bell Auditorium. Times for those ceremonies were not discussed Thursday.
Watches reported stolen from jeweler
A jewelry store employee told Richmond County sheriff's deputies someone stole $1,585 in watches between 8 and 10 p.m. Tuesday.
According to a sheriff's office incident report, Cherie H. Foster, an employee of Friedman's Jewelers at Augusta Mall, told deputies someone stole two ladies' watches valued at $495 and $695 and a man's watch valued at $395 from a showcase.
Martinez man receives ticket at card game
A Martinez man was among 18 men ticketed by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division this weekend for gambling during a card game in a North Myrtle Beach hotel.
Bobby Gene Kay, 40, of the 4400 block of Barts Drive, was ticketed for gambling, SLED spokeswoman Kathryn Richardson said.
A tip to SLED led agents Saturday to Hampton Inn Harbourgate, where the poker game was discovered, Ms. Richardson said.
She would not say how much money was at stake in the game, whether the men knew each other or where the game was set up.
Illegal gambling in South Carolina can carry a sentence of 30 days in jail and a $100 fine. None of the men was arrested.
Man indicted in death of sister's boyfriend
An 18-year-old Martinez man was indicted on murder, kidnapping and armed robbery charges Thursday in the death of his sister's 26-year-old boyfriend.
The indictment, handed down by a Columbia County grand jury, charges Daniel Garcia Blackwell, of Shady Grove Drive, with two counts of murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in the death of Thomas Wright III, according to the indictment.
It accuses Mr. Blackwell of stealing Mr. Wright's car, kidnapping him at gunpoint and shooting him.
Hunters found Mr. Wright's body Oct. 23 about 100 feet into the woods off Baker Place Road. Police said Mr. Wright was shot in the head.
