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An attorney for veterans potentially exposed to HIV and other infections by colonoscopies at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals said his clients are waiting to hear if they will be compensated for mistakes that led to congressional hearings and new VA spending on patient safety.

Anyone driving on I-20 or I-520 has seen lots of changes over the past two years, and just this week there have been a few more.

A burn center will open in Brandon on Monday, providing the state with its first inpatient burn-treatment facility in four years.

They are extremely dangerous. Sink holes that form when a storm pipe fails beneath a roadway.

Augusta, GA - Deputy James Paugh, Richmond County Sheriff's Office: "I have over 22 of them between basically 2 hours." Nearly 2 dozen warnings were handed out for making this illegal left turn, from Washington Road onto I-20. Cpl.

Every nine and half minutes someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV. National testing day is this Saturday and today city leaders are urging you to get tested.

The Aiken County Coroner's Office says Gregory A. Maree, 35, was killed in a car accident around 9:45 a.m. Sunday.

It's a sight to see cruising through downtown Augusta. "You're able to maneuver around town, park in a typical parallel parking spot without ever hitting reverse," Mike Tomberlin said.

Longtime Augusta State baseball coach Skip Fite is nearing a deal to head up the West Georgia program.

If the number of applications is any indication, Augusta State University is well on its way to another record enrollment.

Augusta joined metro Atlanta on Friday among cities under an air pollution health advisory, but conditions were expected to improve slightly today.

Gordon Highway and Deans Bridge Road are two of Augusta's main entryways. But this important intersection is at a crossroads when it comes to future development.

A Navy cold case unit is re-examining evidence that could lead to an investigation into the suspicious death of a man who was the third husband of an Augusta woman who has five dead husbands in five states, an agency spokesman said Wednesday.

Veterans Affairs hospitals will get $26 million worth of new sterilizing equipment to help clean endoscopes and other reusable medical devices, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Wednesday.

Temp: 86.0 F Heat Index: 91 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA June 24, 2009 Another arrest has been made in the death of Exzradrian Holloway.

It sounds like a snippet of conversation between doctor and patient. But the doctor, in this recent exchange at the University of Florida campus, was actually an engineering doctoral student - and the patient a a oemixed reality humana composed of a life-sized computer avatar on a flat screen and a mannequin with a prosthetic breast.

A member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs says "despite numerous and repeated directives," some VA hospitals have not corrected mistakes with endoscopic equipment.

I don't need another T-shirt with a band's logo, nor am I in the market for anything made from hemp, but that didn't stop me from putting together a shopping list last week while wandering from stage to stage at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee.

Brooke Hendrix, 17, is trying scrubs on for size this summer. She is a junior volunteer at University Hospital, helping out in the operating room and breast health departments.

A 62-year-old Augusta man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game.