When it comes to benefits, the servants of God have a package of their own.

...principal at Rollins Elementary. Before his job at Rollins, he worked as an assistant principal at A.R. Johnson Health Occupations High School and also at Davidson. Mr. Thompson also was a teacher at Murphey Middle School, Sue Reynolds Elementary...

It's 10 a.m. and Robetta McKenzie is already preparing for her second meeting. The day's agenda consists of a civic event across town in 20 minutes, an appointment at Fort Gordon after lunch, a meeting downtown immediately following, then another in the evening.

BACK IN TIME Oct. 30, 1926 An aggressive movement to have a deeper channel in the Savannah River and start Augusta toward becoming the great inland port of the Southeast was planned at an enthusiastic meeting of the River Development Committee of the Augusta Traffic Bureau yesterday. It was decided that William M. Howard would, in cooperation with Congressman Carl Vinson, make the presentation of Augusta's claim before the board of engineers of the War Department.

William Parrish had nothing in his pocket when the first deadline to raise money for his July mission trip to Costa Rica slipped away in May. Yet the Augusta teen never doubted he would raise the $2,200 he needed. It took him all of five weeks to raise $2,152, with a couple of weeks to go. On July 8, he will leave for two days of training at the Teen Mania Ministries campus in Garden Valley, Texas, before heading to the Central American country for two weeks.

Seven- and 8-year-olds completed lyrics to rap songs when prompted Thursday, which only emphasized points made by the cast of a national gospel play about temptations and distractions. The cast of The Preachers' Kids talked to about 75 children involved in Summer Explosion 2001, a summer program at A.R. Johnson Health Occupations High School aimed at preparing children for the school year.

The mother of a girl struck by a vehicle as she crossed the street to reach her school bus has filed suit against the car's driver and the Richmond County Board of Education.

The scene switched back and forth between two families faced with the same dilemma: a teen pregnancy. But in this case the expectant mother was named Mary. Laughter floated up from the Solid Rock youth group at Warren Baptist Church as her boyfriend, Joseph, tried to convince his parents that he and Mary needed to go to Bethlehem. The skit finished as a line of teens carried poster board placards on stage saying, "Bethlehem or bust," "It's a boy!" and "It's a King!"

Custodian fired after hitting boss A Richmond County school custodian who struck her principal has been fired, Superintendent Charles Larke said Tuesday. Juanita Herrington, 52, of the 1800 block of Fairview Avenue was terminated Monday from her job as a custodian at Hornsby Elementary School after her arrest Friday on a simple battery charge. She is accused of hitting Principal Thelma Williams after an argument about trash in the school hallways.

An Augusta man suspected of burning a toddler with cigarettes, biting and bruising him, and pulling out his hair was indicted Tuesday.