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The Augusta Commission has authorized a $300,000 settlement with a man incorrectly identified as a suspect and held 10 days in a 2014 smash-and-grab robbery at Costco.
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A handful of Hyde Park property owners vowed Tuesday to continue a fight for greater compensation for their condemned homes.
Their news conference outside Mary Utley Community Center comes at the tail end of Augusta’s four-year relocation of all the neighborhood’s residents to create a detention pond at the site off Gordon Highway.
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Richmond County public schools will be open Columbus Day to make up for closing Sept. 2 due to heavy rains in the area.
Students originally had Oct. 10 off, but the Richmond County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to make up the day.
“We need every minute we can get for instruction,” Richmond County Superintendent Angela Pringle said. “And this was our only possible makeup day without cutting into Thanksgiving break.”

A University of Georgia graduate researcher was killed and two other bicyclists were injured Monday evening in east Athens by a suspected impaired driver.
Ashley Block, 25, who was a graduate student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology at UGA, was killed during the Monday night group ride organized by The Hub Bicycles on South Milledge Avenue. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

COLUMBIA — More than half of the abuse, neglect and exploitation cases involving vulnerable adults reported to state investigators are referred to other state and local agencies.

The Greenville News reports no one agency tracks the outcomes of the investigations.

Crime victims advocate Laura Hudson says there should be a system that can help determine if the state is doing a good job
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Another impressive early-season win kept Thomson near the top, while Jefferson County moved up one spot in the latest Georgia Sports Writers Association High School Football Poll released Tuesday.
Thomson held its spot at No. 2 in Class AAAA behind Cartersville after beating Class AAA power Pace Academy 38-10 this past Friday. It marked a second consecutive win against a top-10 team within its respective classification and moved the Bulldogs to 4-0.

One of the defendants in the Marshall Square civil litigation agreed to pay a $5.55 million penalty in connection with the model of a heating and air unit it manufactured and was installed in the Columbia County retirement complex that caught fire last year.
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Clown sightings around residential areas in the Carolinas have made national headlines lately, and now, there are reports of them being spotted in McDuffie County.
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Authorities are asking for assistance as they investigate a weekend homicide.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information on the slaying of Eugene Brown, 23, of Franklin Street, to contact investigators at (706) 821-1020 or (706) 821-1080.
About 3 a.m. Saturday, police responded to the 1900 block of Second Avenue and discovered Brown dead from at least one gunshot wound.
 

JACKSON, Ga. — Law enforcement officials in central Georgia are looking for a man they say shot and wounded a Jackson police officer.

Jackson Police Chief James Morgan tells local media that Officer Sherry Hall was doing a routine patrol early Tuesday when she saw a man sitting on the side of the road.

Hall went to confront the man and he became aggressive and shot her. The bullet hit Hall in the abdomen area of her bulletproof vest.