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The Aiken County Coroner’s Office is investigating a single vehicle crash that resulted in the death of an Aiken man Friday morning.

The Edgefield County School District confirmed one of its elementary school bus drivers was arrested by local law enforcement on Thursday, Sept. 25.

EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A Columbia Middle School student is in trouble over an alleged threat. Parents were told Thursday that a seventh-grader “made comments of a threatening nature aloud in class with other students present.”. The latest sighting was Thursday morning near Warrenville Elementary School in Aiken...

3 new measles cases tied to patient from Georgia State University. New cases are being discovered in a recent measles outbreak in the Peach State. Officials say 268 close contacts of the confirmed cases have been identified. S.C. family fights for change after death from brain-eating amoeba. Updated: 3 hours...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Richmond County Sheriff Eugene Brantley addressed the violence Augusta has seen in the past two days, including a murder at Augusta Mall and an apparently retaliatory attack on Druid Park Avenue. At a news conference Wednesday, he said young people today aren’t being taught the values...

What's new today on the deadly shooting at Augusta Mall?. Here's a look at the latest developments on the Augusta Mall murder case. A look at past shootings and gun incidents at Augusta Mall. Updated: 41 minutes ago. Augusta Mall is no stranger to violence. Here's a look at incidents...

A Richmond County man was sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of over $1 million, according to the United States Department of Justice on Thursday.

Questions have been raised about how the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office handled a shooting in June prior to the deadly Augusta Mall shooting Tuesday.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - September is National Suicide Prevention Month. In Augusta-Richmond County, suicides have nearly doubled from 2019 to 2023. Nationally, veterans transitioning out of active duty remain among the most at-risk groups. An OIG, Office of Inspector General, report found a severe staffing...

Germany-based metals producer Aurubis AG says the melt shop at its Aurubis Richmond facility in Augusta, Georgia, has started producing recycled-content nonferrous metals. Aurubis is referring to the new site as the first United States multimetal recycling plant and as a facility that recovers strategic metals for...