Augusta, GA
CSRA schools closures for Monday, March 16
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Due to possible inclement weather, schools in the CSRA are making changes to their schedules for Monday, March 16. Check back for regular updates.
Aiken County
Aiken County Public Schools will operate on an e-learning day on Monday, 16.
Allendale County
Allendale County Schools will operate on an e-learning day on Monday, March 16. All after-school programs and athletic activities will also be cancelled.
Barnwell County
Barnwell County Schools will operate as an e-learning day on Monday, March 16.
Briarwood Academy
Briarwood Academy will be closed on Monday, March 16.
Burke County
Burke County Public Schools and Departments will be closed on Monday, March 16th. This includes all after-school activities.
Columbia County
Students were already scheduled to be out on Monday, March 16, for a District Professional Learning Day.
Edgefield County
Edgefield County School District will close schools and buildings on Monday, March 16.
Glascock County
Glascock County Schools will be closed on Monday, March 16.
Jefferson County
Monday, March 16, is a scheduled school holiday for Jefferson County Schools.
McCormick County
Monday, March 16th, will be an e-learning day.
McDuffie County
The McDuffie County School System is already scheduled to observe a winter student holiday on Monday, March 16.
Orangeburg County
Monday, March 16, will be an e-learning day for students.
Richmond County
Richmond County School System schools and offices will be closed on Monday, March 16. An official update regarding operations for Tuesday, March 17, will be provided no later than Monday evening.
Voorhees University
Voorhees University will close its campus on Monday, March 16, 2026.
Warren County
Warren County Schools will close on Monday, March 16.
Washington County
Washington County Schools have switched to an at-home learning day for Monday, March 16.
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Augusta, GA
Georgia governor candidate Olu Brown campaigns in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Olu Brown visited Augusta on Friday evening, stopping near the Sand Hills Community Center as early voting continues.
Brown is one of six candidates in the Democratic primary.
Campaign priorities
Brown said his vision as governor would focus on three main areas.
“One, it’s affordability around health care and making sure we expand Medicaid and expand Peach Care and make sure we continue to make our rural health care systems healthy and vital,” Brown said. “Number two, we’ve got to address education in all of Georgia, making sure every kid in Georgia gets an excellent education, and we’re paying our teachers more. And number 3, we’re protecting the rights of all women. Folks in the Gold Dome shouldn’t be making decisions about their bodies or the choices that they make.”
Brown is running against Amanda Duffy, Derrick Jackson, Geoff Duncan, Jason Esteves, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mike Thurmond.
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Augusta, GA
Augusta Prep student arrested over picture of LEGO gun, threat he called a joke
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Prep student was arrested on a charge of terroristic threats over a picture of a LEGO gun he posted on social media.
It happened Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
Eric Hedinger, the principal of Augusta Preparatory Day School, told deputies a student had uploaded a picture to Snapchat of a “pistol” with the caption “shooting up the school so I don`t have to take the stats exam tomorrow. Don`t come yall!”
The principal said he spoke to the student and his father about the photo.
The principal also provided deputies with the student’s address in Grovetown.
A deputy went there and was told by the student that the “pistol” was a LEGO set that he had built.

He also said the comment he made was supposed to be a joke because he was not looking forward to taking his Advanced Placement statistics test this week.
The student showed the deputy the box that the LEGO set came in, and how the set was already disassembled.
The deputy also looked in the boy’s room to make sure he was not in possession of any weapons.
The mother advised that there was one firearm in the residence but it was locked up.

The deputy contacted Judge Leslie Morgan and she issued a warrant for terroristic threats.
The student, age 18, was taken into custody and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center.
News 12 is not reporting his name or publishing his photo since the LEGO gun could not have actually harmed anyone.
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