Hotel developer warns Augusta city leaders that a planned 130-room Hyatt Place Hotel is dependent on Commissioners going ahead and building the proposed Trade Exhibit and Events Center at the approved site off Reynolds Street. Without the TEE Center it could be check out time for the hotel. Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

When it comes to inner city development, and a TEE Center…better late if ever, The special Augusta Commission subcommittee formed to save the two projects has met twice and city leaders can only hope to break the current stalemate, but in the meantime, both major projects suffer. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

He blazed trails in Augusta’s legal community and Commissioner Corey Johnson is leading the effort to name the Judicial Center for Judge John Ruffin, but this big honor could create a a big blow up. Fresh on the heels of the deep divide over the TEE Center, the naming has Commissioners again at odds. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

It could be the solution for the stuck TEE Center and a change of scenery. Former Augusta Mayor Bob Young says the city should use the TEE Center sales tax money and expand the exhibition space at the James Brown Arena. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

The Beard Bandwagon: Tuesday, a rally was held at Augusta’s Miss Justice statue to show that Augusta Commissioner Betty Beard has support from the community. At the rally, Commissioner Beard broke her silence…talking on camera for the first time since the whole ordeal of allegations of bribery began. WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more.

It’s seen so many troubles that some are calling the TEE Center in Augusta dead, but despite the conflict, the trade center design team is finishing its work with a new drawings and even a 3-D Model of the project, but the time is coming for the TEE Center design team to stop meeting like this. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

A nationally-known expert says he is willing to explain why a new trade and exhibit (TEE) center may not be such a good deal for Augusta. Doctor Heywood Sanders is a public policy expert who’s written papers on the problems of cities building convention centers to spur business.

There’s more trouble for plans to build a trade center in downtown Augusta. The arrest of a local attorney, David Fry, on charges of trying to bribe two Augusta Commissioners to switch their votes in favor of the TEE Center could end with the project in ruin.

The TEE Center bribery offer may have been an effort to get the project built, but it could in the end bring it down. Commissioners comment on the Trade Center’s future in the aftermath of an alleged vote buying effort. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

It is seen as a last ditch effort to salvage the TEE Center, but the arrest of an Augusta lawyer for attemping to bribe two Augusta Commissioners to support the project has Mayor Copenhaver suspending the meetings of the TEE Center sub-committee that was appointed last week. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the latest twist in TEE Center story.

A local attorney behind bars after Sheriff Ronnie Strength says he tried to bribe two Augusta Commissioners. David Fry, 57, was arrested Tuesday morning at his home and charged with two counts of bribery. Count on our Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story.

Augusta Commissioners confirm they are being questioned by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, concerning an an alleged attempt to bribe two Commissioners who voted against the TEE Center to change their votes. City leaders have been deadlocked on the issue since May, now an investigation clouds the TEE Center’s future. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

Augusta Commissioners were called to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, Friday morning to answer questions concerning the ongoing TEE Center debate. There are allegations that some commissioners who opposed the Tee Center were offered bribes to change their postition on the project. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has more.

Augusta Commissioners are planning to again talk TEE Center. The trade center, and neighborhood redevelopment programs have been stuck in the mud since May. City leaders have agreed to form a committee to hammer out a deal and that could have been thanks to the pressure from a local businessman. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

It’s a last ditch effort to save Augusta’s TEE Center.  Commissioners today put the fate of the stalled trade center project into the hands of Mayor Deke Copenhaver and a still unnamed four member sub-committee.  They directed the sub committee to “hammer out” an agreement on the trade center and report back in two weeks.