The day after a Thomson Police Department captain said the agency would defer prosecution to Columbia County, the chief is asking the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to enter the investigation of a teacher accused of having sex with a Harlem High School student at his Thomson home.
The GBI is...
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Ansley Thrift lay halfway across the hood of an Oldsmobile March 29, her body ostensibly thrown through the windshield in a collision with a light pole in the school's parking lot.
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SCHOOL: North Augusta Middle GRADE: Sixth FAVORITE CLASS: Science FAVORITE SCHOOL ACTIVITY: P.E. WHEN I GET HOME FROM SCHOOL, I: sit down, do my homework; if I don't have any homework, I'll study.
Kids Fishing Rodeo for Ages 2-12. There will be prizes to include a $1,000.00 scholarship awared to one child, games, a dunking booth, ID a Child by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office and lunch will be provided. Registration will be April 14th at Academy Sports from 12-2 PM or 8-8:30 AM at Wildwood the morning of the event.
• Sen. Greg Ryberg and his wife, Betty, have donated $20,000 to create the Senator Greg and Betty Ryberg STEM Initiative Scholarship at Aiken Technical College.
In my imagination I could hear God speaking clear
As He looked down from the heavens to those He held so dear
And then He spoke to Jesus as He sat near to his side
We need a plan to change their ways and their sins we need to hide
For sin cannot be covered, it must be washed away
By bl...
• Fox Creek vs. Newberry in Sandlapper Classic at Gilbert, 7 p.m. VARSITY GOLF • North Augusta vs. Strom Thurmond at North Augusta Country Club, 4 p.m. VARSITY BASEBALL • Fox Creek vs. Batesburg in Sandlapper Classic at Gilbert, 7 p.m.
COLUMBIA - Area lawmakers are trying to open the door for Sunday alcohol sales in North Augusta. "In the last 15 years, we have begun to establish our own identity from Augusta," North Augusta Mayor Lark Jones said on Friday.
College contest seeks votes for projects Paine College is participating in the third annual Home Depot Retool Your School contest to receive grants to fund campus projects. Through April 10, people may go to www.retoolyourschool.
Elderly woman killed by car in her driveway An 83-year-old woman died March 28 after her car rolled down her North Augusta driveway and hit her. Margaret E.