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Richmond County graduation rate up; Columbia County slips

...direction. In order to encourage more students to stay in school, we must make high school more relevant."All but two Richmond County high schools, Cross Creek and Butler, made gains from 2011. John S. Davidson Fine Arts and A.R. Johnson Health...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-05-21/richmond-grad-rate-columb
Caseloads, funding main reasons for death penalty case delays, say capital defenders

...money and excessive caseloads are the chief reasons defenders in death penalty cases have asked for delays in trying two Richmond County defendants facing the punishment.Georgia isn't the only state with the death penalty that is reporting these...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-07-27/caseloads-funding-main
More candidates qualify for Richmond County school board, commission as filing ends

Two Richmond County Board of Education newcomers and an Augusta Commission challenger qualified for open seats before filing closed at noon Wednesday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2012-08-08/more-candidate
Students learn the "soft skills" of leadership at CNN camp

Two Richmond County students spent a week this summer living on the Georgia Tech campus and mingling with CNN executives and anchors, learning the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-07-22/students-learn-soft-skill
Friends of slain deputy JD Paugh gather to ride bikes

...JD's memory belongs to a lot of people. It's not just our family who lost him."Before the bikers headed out, two Richmond County deputies stopped traffic either way on Washington Road. Paugh's parents drove their truck behind hundreds of...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-10-21/friends-slain-deputy-j
Augusta murder convictions upheld

Two Richmond County murder convictions have been upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court.Paul Franklin Blevins was tried and convicted in February 2009...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-10-29/augusta-murder-convict
Erasure marks on CRCT answer sheets drop in Richmond County schools

...past two years, but Rountree said the district has not found evidence of testing irregularities there.The only two Richmond County schools that ever made the severe category, Lamar and Hornsby elementary schools in 2009, were clear of concern...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-04-06/erasure-marks-crct-answer
Police catch burglary suspect walking out of home

Two Richmond County deputies responding to a burglar alarm caught the burglar in the act Friday morning, a report states.After arriving at a home...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2011-08-13/police-catch-burglary-
SAT scores drop in Georgia, South Carolina, U.S.

...Only two Columbia County schools ? Lakeside and Greenbrier ? scored higher than the national average, as did two Richmond County schools ? Davidson and Johnson, both of which are magnet schools. And only Lakeside and Davidson scored higher...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2011-09-14/sat-scores-drop-georgia-s
Augusta shooting suspect captured in Virginia

...Barbour, 21, of the 2800 block of Butler Manor Drive was originally wanted as a suspect in a Jan. 14 shooting of two Richmond County teens. Barbour then sold the weapon used in the shootings to undercover officers during Operation Fox Hunt, Richmond...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-10-31/augusta-shooting-suspect-cap