North Augusta City Council officially supported new legislation regarding New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam on July 20, in addition to discussing damages and responses to the surging coronavirus pandemic.Georgia and South Carolina representatives are working on legislation that would transfer the lock and dam to local governments and reallocate funds to repair it and…
July 23, 1947: Armed Augusta man arrested in Capitol
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Augusta experts will make their own assessment of the Lock and Dam
Augusta and others suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over plans for New Savannah Bluff Lock and and Dam will get a chance to inspect it themselves. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service
July 22: Georgia, Augusta see spike in COVID-19 deaths
Georgia saw a smaller surge of new cases of COVID-19 but a large increase in new deaths and hospitalizations Wednesday. Augusta has now had 10 deaths over the last two days. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service
China vows retaliation after U.S. ordered its Houston consulate closed within 72 hours
China vowed to retaliate Wednesday after the United States abruptly ordered the closure of its consulate in Houston, a move that further inflamed tensions between the two superpowers.Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said China was notified on Tuesday that it must close the consulate within 72 hours. In a regular daily news…
’Prime’ Development: Investment by Amazon breaking Columbia County record
Amazon’s future fulfillment center in Appling is Columbia County’s largest one-time industrial investment to date. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service
S.C. Attorney General Office: Meriwether monument racially offensive, but up to legislature to take action
The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office called the Meriwether monument offensive for what it stands for – white supremacy – and historically inaccurate before advising North Augusta to seek relief from the S.C. General Assembly in an opinion released Tuesday.The opinion, written by Solicitor General Robery Cook and Assistant Attorney General David Jones, summarized in…
July 22, 1864: Augusta general killed in Battle of Atlanta
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Missing Richmond County woman and boy located
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says it has located a missing woman and boy.Nicole Jane Brown, 27, and Thomas Anthony Channell, 11, had been last seen Monday at 4:30 p.m. walking in the 2800 block of April Drive. Top Featured Tags: – Georgia News Press Release Distribution Service
Hephzibah man sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for producing child porn
A Hephzibah man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.Richard Hunt Moore Jr., 49, pleaded guilty to one count of production of child pornography in October. The investigation began after Moore was found with a 14-year-old boy at a Grovetown hotel in January 2019. […] Top Featured Tags: – Georgia…
