Greg Rickabaugh

Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. He also owns AugustaCrime.com. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel. He is married with two daughters.
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Suspect in 13 year old’s Augusta death is extradited from Pa.

The murder suspect accused in the March death of Augusta teen Buddy Brown Jr. outside Richmond Summit Apartments has been extradited from Pennsylvania. Gregory Thornton, 30,...

RCSO Deputy is latest officer to face arrest for criminal activity

A Richmond County deputy was arrested Sunday for bringing in contraband to the jail, and he was promptly fired on Monday. The sheriff's office Criminal Investigation...

Suspect from Get-N-Go killing is stabbed by mob of cellmates

A day after his arrest for killing a 15-year-old Augusta boy, murder suspect Derrick Lyons Jr. was stabbed by a mob of cellmates in the...

Columbia County deputy fired after DUI arrest

A Columbia County deputy has been fired after his Memorial Day arrest for driving under the influence with a child in the car. Deputy Adam Fuller,...

3 men linked to murder of 15-year-old boy outside gas station

Three Augusta suspects have been linked to Thursday’s shooting death of a 15-year-old boy outside a convenience store. Derrick Lyons Jr., 32, Ike Romeo Lang, 18,...

Funeral home director identified as man who shot girlfriend & killed himself in Augusta

The man who shot his girlfriend Thursday night and then killed himself has been identified as Thomas “Tommy” L. King Jr., funeral director and son...

Augusta Teen, 15, is Fatally Shot Outside Gas Station

Richmond County authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy on Thursday outside a convenience store on Windsor Spring Road. The victim, Jordon Gaynor...

Grovetown police arrest man who tried to meet 12-year-old girl for sex

Grovetown and Waynesboro police arrested a man Thursday afternoon who thought he was meeting a 12-year-old girl for sex. Evan Popplewell, 30, of Appling, had been...

Grovetown flasher strikes again – at Dollar General & near subdivision

A Grovetown man who was given probation for a series of flashing incidents in 2018 has started exposing himself again, authorities said. Michael Scott Stephens Jr.,...

Aiken County mom loses second son in five months

The mother of a Graniteville teen who was fatally shot on Memorial Day says it’s been hard on her as she prepares to bury her...

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