...city's favor. The commission revoked the store's license in December, but one month later, the city's Department of License and Inspection sent X-Mart a 2004 tax bill. X-Mart paid the bill and received a license, but the city soon rectified...

...without a revaluation, he said, the digest shrank. According to monthly reports generated by the city's Department of License and Inspection, new construction - a growth indicator - is on the rise this year. More permits for commercial construction...

Several Augusta-area candidates have displayed financial trouble:

...Administrator George Kolb will work directly with department heads in the offices that were audited - including the Departments of License and Inspection, Parks and Recreation, Tax Assessor, Tax Commissioner and Fleet Management - to consider possible improvements...

...ramshackle homes as a politician seeking change, making notes of code violations to report to the city's Department of License and Inspection and fielding complaints from residents who spot him making rounds. "The people living here now are just...

...Dec. 31, is just like any other Sunday." The license request already has been denied by the city's Department of License and Inspection per the recommendation of sheriff's officials. "This is nothing more than a mere attempt by two nightclubs...

Trimming the Transit Department's budget by 3 percent - or $86,648 - is equivalent to eliminating one bus route. Finding the same percentage of savings in Parks and Recreation would include shutting off the lights at most city-owned playing fields two nights a week and permanently cutting off those that light 15 public tennis courts.

Neglect helped kill Rosa Lee Barnes, her neighbors say. Before the 83-year-old grandmother died in a drive-by shooting last week, Turpin Hill residents knew it was just a matter of time before Eighth Avenue would erupt in violence again. Some residents believe the blight that has taken over many of the houses on the block is also responsible for the criminals who have taken over the neighborhood. They see a cycle of abandonment where blight feeds crime that feeds more blight.

Neglect helped kill Rosa Lee Barnes, her neighbors say. Before the 83-year-old grandmother died in a drive-by shooting last week, Turpin Hill residents knew it was just a matter of time before Eighth Avenue would erupt in violence again. Some residents believe the blight that has taken over many of the houses on the block is also responsible for the criminals who have taken over the neighborhood. They see a cycle of abandonment where blight feeds crime that feeds more blight.

Lt. Scott Gay spends a lot of nights patrolling Augusta's motels, and he says it's taught him one important lesson - be careful where you pay to lay your head.