Stunning gift to MCG

Finds SRS mission a noble concept

Notes many veterans denied benefits

Clinton ducks gas trap

Asks Congress to follow Baptists' lead

Thanks Baptists for Disney boycott

Drip, drip, drip

Tips hat to Southern Baptists' boycott

Aiken Co. greed

Says advisory boards replace voters

Calls Norwood's `Beargate' crass

Wants stores' check policies changed

Man arrested in teens' shootings

Educators learn merit of values curriculum

Governor to pick judges

Ga. officials informing teens about driving law changes

Osbon donates $1 million to Greater Augusta Community Foundation

Extension of water, sewer lines discussed

Powell admits to owing taxes

Kids on the march

Webster deserves heat

Second Baptist buys St. Paul's land

ASU expected to choose consultant soon

Ground broken on Walton Rehabilitation's home for disabled

Families want safe return of jail escapees

Local and area briefs

Officials investigate Aiken homicide

Richmond County jailbreak: How it happened

Local and regional news briefs

Video poker parlors tempting to robbers

Defense bill helps SRS, fort

Fee for records still $8

100-year-old Grovetown house saved

Aiken schools raise administrator pay

School board approves teacher raises

Python petting

Graffiti grows downtown

Owner donates radio stations to MCG

Grant to help equip math, science labs

Equine event scheduled for Hitchcock Woods

Three arrested in Aiken murder

Jail escapees talk of turning themselves in

S.C. tags have `smiling faces, beautiful places' and blue mountains, too

Seles wins -- finally

Mike Berardino: 2 high school-to-NBA players living large

Jones' chipper performance leads Braves to bash Mets

Stockton seeks the first repeat of career

Spurs pick Duncan first

Braves notes

Johnson ties mark for lefties

Davis' success goes on

Nike, Muslims settle over logo resembling Allah's name

Hawks don't expect much help from draft

Hawks take Gray with No. 22 pick

Alliance to give top 6 WAC, C-USA teams spot in glamour bowls

King provides the sound, Holyfield, Tyson the fury

McMichael, Baerga team up to beat Braves

Mike Berardino: Real action can be found on draft night

Sampras advances, Chang out at Wimbledon

Draft notebook: Prep star McGrady headed to Toronto

Tourists rap Jackets, win second game in row

Braves notebook: Wohler's walking problem

98-year-old gymnast makes Olympic performance

Holyfield confident he can beat Tyson again

Tasty treat, a few good thoughts on chocolate, the food we don't need but can't live without

Health calendar

Country singers go head-to-head with `Butterfly Kisses'

Disney flexes marketing muscle for 'Hercules'

Legendary undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau dies

Summer a good time to teach kids how to eat healthfully

Splish splash!

Fire up the grill for Onion Curry Hamburgers

Vaccine of future could come from spuds

Hot dogs and kraut for the Fourth of July

Legendary undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau dies

Encroaching seas drive islanders to U.N. to appeal for help

Consumers urged to cut out diet mentality while they trim the fat

On-time mail reaches record rate

Clinton orders IRS oversight board

South Carolina unemployment rises

`Safer' cigarettes in pipeline

Business briefs: litterers beware

Consumer confidence up nearly 2 points in June

Plan lowers commissions for crop insurance

AT&T to test local service in Augusta, Macon

IRS restructuring panel calls for major overhaul of tax collector

Report: No widespread worker abuse in Nike factories

King Mill Credit Union celebrates 70th anniversary

Business briefs

Northwest airlink cuts fares from Columbus to compete with ValuJet

Minority-women businesses growing three times faster than normal

TV lobbyists try to stall free-station handover

Rodney Dangerfield alleges Internet company stole his act

Russian Mir space station damaged in accident with unmanned cargo ship; Crew unhurt

Fertility Drugs: Study Sees No Link With Ovarian Cancer

Rodney Dangerfield alleges Internet company stole his act

Air Force: Dummies, not aliens in Roswell 50 years ago

Microsoft's Gates plans $200 Million gift to libraries

Vatican: Human clones wouldn't have same souls

Students can earn two-year college degree via television

The supermarket shopper: getting over-extended

Bacterium's taste for toxics offers food for thought cleanups

U.N. inspector: Iraq's biological weapons program most secretive