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I-TEAM UPDATE: Army moves quickly on Fort Gordon housing problems
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A decade-long I-TEAM investigation, thrust into the nationwide highlight after a listening to on Capitol Hill, is now seeing outcomes right here at residence. The U.S. Military is now launching its very personal investigation into navy housing particularly at Fort Gordon.
For the primary time since he made nationwide headlines at a listening to about properties on publish, Sen. John Ossoff returns to Fort Gordon.
His go to comes as we study the Military has now launched its personal investigation into what’s been taking place at Fort Gordon.
Our Meredith Anderson was in Washington, D.C., for that listening to a couple of weeks in the past, and this new growth reveals that the listening to spotlighted from our I-TEAM reporting didn’t fall on deaf ears.
That is possible step one in some actual ahead progress. We’ve been exposing housing issues on publish for years so our neighborhood is aware of simply how frustratingly gradual the federal government can transfer.
We’re now studying sooner or later after this listening to, the Military made modifications at Fort Gordon.
In the future.
In additional than 10 years of investigating this, we’ve by no means seen the Military react that rapidly. This time, it may lastly be completely different.
MORE THAN A DECADE OF I-TEAM COVERAGE:
On Capitol Hill and below oath, households at Fort Gordon described how mould of their residence on publish made their household sick.
All of this, the results of an eight-month bipartisan investigation into how the personal firm answerable for housing on publish continued to mistreat navy households, even after Balfour Beatty pleaded responsible to defrauding the U.S. authorities.
However earlier than the senator investigated, the I-TEAM did and what we uncovered was cited a number of occasions within the subcommittee’s investigation.
Two weeks later, the assistant secretary of the Military for installations, Rachel Jacobson, instructed Congress she had already taken motion.
“The day after the report was launched, I wrote to Balfour Beatty indicating that I directed a right away investigation at Fort Gordon to be overseen by the commanding common of the Military Materiel Command.”
That’s not all.
Jacobson went on to say there may be now further deal with Balfour Beatty’s funds right here regionally. “We’re additionally performing an audit of Balfour Beatty’s property administration at Fort Gordon, and we’re suspending any requests for incentive charges at the moment.”
Final December, Balfour Beatty admitted to felony habits the place staff “manipulated and falsified” work orders to get bonus checks. The corporate was ordered to pay greater than 65 million in fines and restitution. Nonetheless, the PSI alleges, work order issues continued.
Capt. Samuel Choe testified he reported mould issues in his Fort Gordon residence however was instructed to cease getting into work orders about it.
Ossoff: “So. Balfour personnel instructed you to stop utilizing the web portal and as an alternative to put these requests for assist immediately in individual or by telephone?”
Choe: “Sure, that’s appropriate. Not only a supervisor. It was the supervisor of the Balfour Beatty Communities at Fort Gordon herself.” One other household submitted “4 separate restore requests a few water leak and mould development.”
Balfour Beatty characterised the requests as “plumbing and portray” points.
As soon as once more, documented proof of labor orders not portray an correct image. Assistant Secretary Jacobson says she’s requested the Military’s Normal Counsel to check out the Military’s difficult settlement with Balfour Beatty to let her know what different actions she will legally take towards the corporate, together with amending contracts when Balfour Beatty doesn’t meet requirements.
She additionally says if the contracts don’t give the Military sufficient authority to step in and implement the right remedy of our servicemen and girls, then she would get Congress concerned. Among the allegations on this report could possibly be thought-about felony, so the division of justice may nonetheless become involved in addition to Congress.
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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Augusta, GA
The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
Augusta, GA
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