Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) report from HEREAugusta.
SportsAUGUSTA, Ga. — The Georgia High School Association regular season is over, and several Augusta-area football teams now turn to the state playoffs, with first-round games set for Friday. Four of them will play at home. Richmond Academy (8-2) earned a home date in Class…
Events
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Foodees Fest is back in downtown Augusta through Sunday evening, with more than 100 food and craft vendors along Fifth and Reynolds Streets and a section of artisans and sellers on the Freedom Bridge. The yearly bazaar, which celebrates cuisines from across the country and around the…
From HERE Aiken
AIKEN, S.C. — A four-day fall revival starts this Sunday at Lighthouse Baptist, an Aiken church that is asking neighbors to come together for worship through the middle of the week. The opening services are Nov. 8 at 11 in the morning and 6 that evening. After that, the congregation…
From Merger Monday
Monday’s deal tape had a pattern. Nearly every buyer already owned a piece of what it was buying. Crédit Agricole holds 29.6% of Banco BPM and wants to reach about 45% by folding its Italian bank into the Milan lender, structured so that it never has to make a tender offer…
From Merger Monday
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has hired Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to arrange its first yen-denominated bond sale since April, returning to a market where it has borrowed about twice a year to fund its Japanese investments. The planned benchmark offering of senior unsecured notes is expected in the near future, subject…
From Merger Monday
Onodrim Industries, an Amsterdam company that plans to buy and hold European defense and industrial suppliers, raised $300 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital that values it at $1.3 billion, nine months after its seed financing. General Catalyst, Lakestar, Altimeter, Strike Capital, 137 Ventures, 8090 and Expeditions…
From the HERE City State Desk
ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia Power customers will see a new balance of power at the agency that sets their electric rates when Democrats take three of the five seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in January, the first Democratic majority on the board in three decades. Commissioner Peter Hubbard…
From the HERE City State Desk
ATLANTA, Ga. — Full Medicaid expansion will lead the agenda when Keisha Lance Bottoms takes over as Georgia governor in January, and the Democrat has said she is ready to scrap the state's current work-based coverage program to get there. At her first news conference since winning the race, held…
From the HERE City State Desk
DONALSONVILLE, Ga. — A memory card that never made it into Seminole County's vote totals has reversed the apparent winner of a southwest Georgia state House race, and Georgia's top election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is now investigating how the votes slipped through. State staff spotted the problem…
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