An Augusta man will spend the rest of his life in prison plus 45 years for a deadly home invasion. A Columbia County jury found 20-year-old Patrick Antwon Booker guilty of numerous charges including burglary, armed robbery, and kidnapping…but they found him not guilty of murder.

Hundreds of jobs could be coming to Jenkins County. The county is just one area that’s in the running to house a new private prison. WJBF News channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud has the story.

In a WJBF News Channel 6 Crime Tracker Report, an Augusta man is convicted of shooting and killing an Augusta teenager. WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud has more.

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has been sentenced to two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a nightclub and later reaching a plea deal on weapons charges.

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress has been sentenced to two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a nightclub and later reaching a plea deal on weapons charges.

Authorities say a man arrested and accused of fatally shooting a woman had been released from a Georgia prison earlier in the year.

A judge in Virginia has approved a plan for Michael Vick to repay $20 million to his creditors and emerge from bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Frank Santoro approved the plan Thursday on the condition that Vick retain a personal financial planner to manage his future earning with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Before September 11th, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 was the symbol of terrorist savagery…270 died, many of them Americans. Thursday, a man convicted in the attack is on his way home to Libya, after serving just eight years of a life sentence. Officials in Scotland freed him on compassionate grounds, drawing a protest from the United States, and outrage from victims’ families. ABC News’ Linsey Davis has more in our look around the world.

Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub.

Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub.

A federal official says Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme who was convicted of trying to assassinate former President Gerald Ford has been released from a Texas prison after more than three decades behind bars.

UPDATE: Four inmates at the federal prison in Edgefield County were taken away for medical attention following a fight, according to prison officials.  The Federal Correction Institution in Edgefield is currently on lockdown while the prison investigates.  Earlier in the day, multiple ambulances and helicopters were sent to the facility.

A convicted Harlem High School coach is being released from jail Friday, after her conviction on sexual assault on a female student was overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court, in June.

Investigators say DNA and fingerprints link suspected serial killer Patrick Burris to two of three shooting scenes in South Carolina.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff has arrived at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, to start serving a 150-year sentence.