Alexia Davis' colleagues, friends and defense attorneys joined her family and ministers on the Augusta courthouse steps Saturday to pray for her and to ask that she be released from charges they say are unfair.Davis, an attorney, is accused...
...martyr of some kind, or any paragon of ethics.A small group of supporters held a prayer rally for Davis on the Augusta courthouse steps Saturday ? primarily for the media ? as if she were somehow the target of an unfair prosecution.Supporters...
A yellow step was added to a staircase at the Augusta-Richmond County Judicial Building and John H. Ruffin Jr. Courthouse after several people stumbled on the last step.
Before Leon LaRue could pacify a rally outside the Augusta courthouse, a rock was thrown through a bus window, and the 1970 race riots exploded.LaRue was at the courthouse that day advocating for...
Security is one of the areas most commonly praised when courthouse employees talk about improvements over the Municipal Building.
A solemn and sentimental farewell was bid Friday to the courtrooms of the Augusta-Richmond county Municipal Building.
Parents who were taking home their newborns when the idea of a new Augusta courthouse first formed are now probably dealing with teenagers eager to practice their driving skills.Planning for the courthouse began...
...new courthouse in Augusta, I held more court history in my hands than you could shake a gavel at.While at the Augusta courthouse, over the front entrance spelled out in large letters, I saw "John H. Ruffin Jr. Courthouse" and learned that...
...Cheek said that Augusta can put up barricades and block off streets as has been done in Washington, but that the Augusta courthouse is not the White House. He said the area around the courthouse was supposed to have some green space to complement...
...administration complex.Welch and Williams designed Diamond Lakes park in south Augusta. The firm also designed the new Augusta courthouse and the Augusta Common."Civil engineers build a lot of things that get buried in the ground, so it is nice to...
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