Greg Rickabaugh

School officials say they are investigating the staff’s response to a student fight at Richmond Hill Middle School that was posted on social media.

A newly released sheriff’s report reveals investigators found Reginald Young III fatally wounded behind an Aiken home near multiple shell casings as loved ones continue mourning his death online.

The drowning death of 1-year-old Maddox Acevedo has renewed questions about why some child drowning cases lead to criminal charges.

A joyful week celebrating two Swainsboro High School graduates turned into heartbreak Friday night when a falling tree crushed a car in Burke County, killing recent graduate Kencerio Walker, his girlfriend Nykeria, and Kencerio’s father, James Walker, as loved ones now prepare for a candlelight vigil in their memory.

Columbia County authorities are investigating a swatting incident Monday in the Shadowmoor subdivision of Martinez after a caller using a voice-changing application falsely reported a fatal backyard shooting, prompting a major law enforcement response before deputies determined no crime had occurred.

The sentencing of two men in a Columbia County entering autos case is drawing attention to a growing pattern of overnight car break ins across Augusta and Columbia County, where crews move through apartment complexes and neighborhoods searching unlocked vehicles for valuables and sometimes firearms.

An Augusta firefighter is facing five charges after investigators say he impersonated a fire inspector during visits to four schools and a gun shop while wearing his department dress uniform.

A Blythe man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for fracturing the skull of his 6-week-old son in 2023.

Two nurses at Piedmont Hospital in Augusta missed weeks of work after investigators say an Edgefield, S.C., man violently attacked them during an overnight incident before turning himself in Wednesday.

A South Carolina man was killed early Friday morning after driving the wrong way at a high rate of speed on Sand Bar Ferry Road before crashing into a concrete barrier on the Savannah River Bridge, according to authorities.