A security officer was shot in the head late Wednesday night during a robbery attempt at Bryant's Discount Beverage Center in North Augusta. A senior noncommissioned officer plead guilty Wednesday to having sexual relationships with three female subordinates on Fort Gordon over the past two years. The Augusta Personnel Board overturned Wednesday the firing of city employee Tony Martin, son of Augusta Commissioner Freddie Handy, over objections of City Administrator Randy Oliver. A jury was seated and witnesses were rounded up before an Augusta man changed his mind once again and decided Wednesday to plead guilty to a murder charge. Deep tillage helps roots reach the clay layer under the soil to tap its moisture and nutrients.
Irrigation pays for itself.
Even so, crops can't flourish when Mother Nature doesn't cooperate. A young Augusta man who participated in a fatal armed robbery last fall received a sentence of life in prison Wednesday. It was a senseless tragedy that could have been prevented if someone who saw the alcohol abuse had taken action to protect the children, authorities and family members agree. As governor, David Beasley did not want to tax video gambling because it might make the state dependent on what he saw as an evil industry. Faced with a pressing array of growth-related concerns from air pollution to stormwater runoff, the Georgia Board of Natural Resources Wednesday adopted a budget request for next year that would add 60 people to the state's Environmental Protection Division.