When deputies arrived to the residence at Woodhaven Court at 3:03 p.m. on Oct. 21, they located a 79-year-old victim unresponsive with injuries sustained in a stabbing incident. The suspect, 33-year-old Joshua Oglesby of Augusta, was detained at the scene. This comes days…
NORTH AUGUSTA — An Augusta woman was arrested Oct. 19 in connection with an Oct. 11 stabbing incident on Melody Lane in North Augusta, according to a report from Aiken County Sheriff's Office. Taken into custody was Diana Ixmatlahua-Bravo, of Walker Street, in…
NORTH AUGUSTA — North Augusta's first and only city attorney, Kelly F. Zier, died Oct. 10 after having served the city for 55 years. Zier's wife, Bonnie, died two weeks prior, on Sept. 28. Kelly F. Zier City of North Augusta/Provided Kelly Zier…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – An Augusta man has been found guilty and sentenced in the June, 16 2022 murder at a Captain D's restaurant. According to District Attorney Jared Williams, a Richmond County jury found Ravanell Gomilliom guilty of all counts in the…
TBILISI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Georgia has detained a man who planned to sell uranium-238 to a foreign national for $700,000, the national security service said on Wednesday. The Georgian citizen is accused of illegally handling nuclear material and faces up to 10 years…
A Georgia man who allegedly helped his father, an inmate serving time for murder, scam a DeLand woman out of nearly $16,000 has been arrested, according to the Volusia Sheriff's Office. Sharod Poellnitz, 18, of Stockbridge, Georgia, is accused of being part…
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Gregg v. Georgia, making Georgia’s rewritten statute the constitutional framework for the modern American death penalty. Gregg was the middle act in a trilogy of Georgia cases that shaped that system. Four years earlier,…
The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a probationer who reportedly left his assignment work site without authorization Friday. A week after commenting on the use of Flock cameras in... RHSPCA fundraiser tops $50k goal for September, raises $77k for shelter…
Georgia’s child welfare agency has been wrongly charging parents foster care fees for children no longer in state custody, and the practice must stop, a federal judge in Atlanta has ruled. In an order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Tiffany Johnson…
An AFP reader got an alert through the county emergency notification system on Friday night about an escapee from a work release at the animal shelter in Verona, and … nobody seems to want to update the public on whatever is…
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