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ATLANTA — A recent court ruling awarding monetary damages to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog farm is stirring interest among Georgia agribusiness organizations in renewing a push to update the state’s Right to Farm Act.But the Nov. 20 judgment a federal appeals court handed down against giant pork producer Smithfield Foods also served…

NOV. 28, 1921The Augusta Chronicle published this day in 1921 was considerably smaller than usual – six pages.The newspaper, then publishing from offices on the south side of the 700 block of Broad Street, had been gutted by a massive fire that began two days before that torched much of the block and continued to…

Two viewings are planned today for former interim Augusta Mayor Willie H. Mays III, who died Sunday.The socially-distanced viewings will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium and from 5-8 p.m. at Mays Mortuary.A private graveside service will follow, said officials with the funeral home, which Mays owned. Top Featured…

Former Georgia Supreme Court Justice George H. Carley died late Thursday night from COVID-19, Chief Justice Harold D. Melton announced Friday.Carley, 82, passed away around 11 p.m. at Emory Decatur Hospital. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993, and in May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice.…

A credit union office will sit on what was an all-you-can-eat buffet on Peach Orchard Road by next year. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

Votes are sought; dogs are walked; trees go up. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

As the pandemic causes more retailers to have their holiday sales online, cybersecurity experts expect an increase in online shopping and encourage shoppers to use caution when buying.According to the National Retail Federation, online and other non-store sales are expected to increase between 20% and 30% to between $202.5 billion and $218.4 billion, up from…

More than 250 COVID-19 cases have been reported among inmates and staff members at local state prisons.According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, there have been 131 cases among inmates and 97 among staff members at the Augusta State Medical Prison on Gordon Highway. Six inmates have died from COVID-19, and 77 staff members and…

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that left one person dead Tuesday night.Joshua Hadnot, 30, of Memphis, Tenn., was shot at least one time at Benson Apartments on Williamsburg Drive Tuesday night. He was pronounced dead at the scene around 11 p.m., according to the Richmond County Coroner’s Office.Deputies responded to the…

A man from Timmonsville, S.C., died in a crash on I-20 near Graniteville Tuesday afternoon.Aiken County Coroner Darryl Ables said they responded at 3:51 p.m. to I-20 at mile marker 11 regarding a tractor trailer crash involving a fatality.According to Ables, it was determined that a 2020 International tractor trailer was traveling east on I-20…

The past few weeks have been difficult for the voters of the Peach State.As the nation and the world watched, Georgia took center stage in a battle that will define our country in a very practical sense for the next four years. But also, in a larger sense, how this country will move forward into…

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded to a crash with injuries on I-520 eastbound Tuesday afternoon.According to the sheriff’s office, the driver of a truck was traveling eastbound in the left lane when a construction truck traveling west on the eastbound lane changed lanes onto the median. The front of the truck struck the left…

In the past two years, the Augusta Fire Department has seen almost 100 fires around Thanksgiving, with most of them caused by cooking.According to the fire department, they have responded to 59 cooking fires the last two Thanksgivings and had an additional 38 structure fires during the same time. According to the National Fire Protection…

New cases of COVID-19 were up above 2,000 in Georgia again but with a handful of deaths while South Carolina saw its 15th straight day of more than 1,000 new cases Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

New hires and promotions in the metro Augusta business community. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

Corporate philanthropy and nonprofit news in the metro Augusta area. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

Is this the most important Small Business Saturday ever? For those struggling with COVID-19 losses, it is. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service

Ava Nieman knows it can sound suspicious or even mildly provocative, but she promises: If she’s sliding into your DMs, it’s with the purest of intentions.All Nieman, 16 years old and a student at St. Pius X Catholic High in Atlanta, wants to do is talk to you about voting. Specifically, she’s got some questions: Are…

NOV. 23, 1846On this day, water flowed into the Augusta Canal for the first time.It had not been an easy process. Soon after civic leader Henry Cumming announced his canal plans in 1844, critics raised an outcry.They griped about its cost, its route and its usefulness. The Legislature got involved. The courts got involved. But…

Former Augusta Mayor Willie Mays III has died, according to the office of Mayor Hardie Davis.In a statement from the mayor Sunday, Davis called Mays a trailblazer and titan in Augusta coming from a family dedicated to serving the people. Mays was also owner of Mays Mortuary.”In the book of Matthew, it is said that…

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler will go into quarantine after multiple COVID-19 tests appear to show conflicting results, her campaign announced Saturday night.Loeffler, who is running for re-election, has campaigned heavily ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff against Rev. Raphael Warnock. Her last campaign appearances were Friday, where she appeared at […] Top Featured Tags: -…

NOV. 22, 1956It might have been the biggest football game in Richmond County history and it ended in a 0-0 tie.It happened in 1956 when Boys Catholic High (today’s Aquinas) “upset” eventual state champion Richmond Academy.That Thanksgiving Day game was played before fans packed into ARC Stadium on a cold, but sunny November Thursday.”The Irish…