The murder charge against 16-year-old Vincent Hikeem Carter Jr. has been dismissed following a preliminary hearing held Thursday by Judge Shawn Merzlak, who ruled that the teen acted in self-defense during a fatal shooting last month that claimed the life of 14-year-old Deandre Howell.
A tragic discovery was made Wednesday morning in Aiken County when a local homeowner found the body of a Black male inside an abandoned vehicle.
Over 5.5 pounds of fentanyl have been taken off the streets of Richmond County following a months-long narcotics investigation that ended in two major drug busts and multiple felony charges. Authorities say the amount of fentanyl seized of over 2,500 grams is enough to cause more than 1.25 million potentially fatal overdoses. The investigation, led...
Hajir Talebzadeh, the Augusta man accused of killing his ex-wife and her mother during a custody exchange outside a west Augusta Best Buy, has been formally booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
An elderly Columbia County woman was killed Wednesday evening in a two-vehicle crash at a local intersection, and another driver...
A federal grand jury has indicted two former Augusta State Medical Prison correctional officers in the 2020 death of an...
A North Augusta woman missing for nearly two months was found Tuesday afternoon. But instead of bringing closure, her strange...
The former director of Aiken County elections has been convicted of fraudulently obtaining and spending her dead mother’s Social Security...
Concerns over alleged inhumane conditions at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center have ignited public outcry on social media, prompting...
Aiken County Sheriff’s Office narcotic investigators have arrested an employee of a North Augusta spa for prostitution. Lin Lizhen, 32,...
During the weeks of July 27-Aug. 3, a total of 50 crimes were tracked by The Augusta Press from the Columbia...
Authorities have identified all four victims in Sunday’s South Augusta shooting as juveniles, and two suspects are being charged with...
More than five weeks after a devastating DUI crash on Interstate 520 left him critically injured, Donell Brown has died....
An impaired driver struck a Richmond County Sheriff’s Office patrol car Saturday night on Broad Street, according to Chief of...
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