One local woman celebrated her new bundle of joy on the first day of the new year.

A South Carolina soldier on the way home from the Middle East for Christmas is now with his family at an Augusta hospital. Sunday, his wife and son were burned at their home in Tega Cay, South Carolina, which is near Charlotte. Now, they are recovering at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center.

A soldier returning to see his family for the holidays is instead at a hospital that specializes in burns after an outdoor fireplace accident injured his wife and son.

Friends and family of surgery patients have a new place to wait over at Doctors Hospital. The room is part of a new $55 million tower at the hospital.

If you have health insurance, you can consider yourself lucky. An estimated 47 million Americans are uninsured. Now, you’ll meet a man struggling to survive a devastating illness…and the financial hardship it brings. WJBF News Channel 6’s Mary Morrison has his story.

One of the victims of a bombing at a north Georgia law firm remained in critical condition Saturday with burns to one-third of his body.  Anne Cordeiro, a spokeswoman for the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, said attorney Jim Phillips was transported there from Dalton after an explosion rocked his law firm Friday.  Police say 78-year-old Lloyd Cantrell, angry over a family property dispute, set off a pipe bomb at the Dalton firm of McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham. Cantrell died in the blast.

The investigation continues into the Columbia, SC plane crash that killed 4 and injured former Blink 182 drummer, Travis Barker, and celebrity disc jockey, DJ AM (Adam Goldstein). Some new dash cam video from the first police officer to arrive on the scene sheds more light on what exactly happened.

A pilot and co-pilot killed in a learjet crash in South Carolina died from smoke inhalation and burns. That was the word, Monday, from the Lexington County Coroner. He also says two passengers were killed by the impact. We have dash cam video from the scene.

A South Carolina coroner says a pilot and co-pilot killed in a Learjet crash died from smoke inhalation and burns, and two passengers were killed by impact-related injuries. Lexington County Coroner Harry Harman released the information Monday, about two days after the plane crashed while trying to take off at a Columbia, S.C., airport.

We have the latest information on a deadly plane crash, in South Carolina. It happened around midnight, Friday, in Columbia. A private jet carrying two music industry celebrities and their associates crashed right after takeoff.  Investigators now tell us a blown tire may be to blame. Four people were killed in that crash. The celebrities: Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM, and rock drummer Travis Barker, survived. Now they’re being treated at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center, right here in Augusta. WJBF-TV News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop has more

The medical director of the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital where former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM are being treated says both men are expected to make full recoveries.  The musicians were critically injured in a South Carolina plane crash that killed four people late Friday.  Dr. Fred Mullins said Sunday morning that both men are being treated for second- and third-degree burns at a Georgia hospital.  Mullins says recovery from such burns can take as long as a year but notes the men had no other injuries.

Word about the two patients being in Augusta, has been spreading very fast all day.  Today WJBF News Channel 6 got reaction from some of the fans outside of the Joseph Still Burn Center.  Saturday, fans gathered outside of Doctors Hospital, in a state of shock.  Hoping to get any information they could on Blink 182’s former drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM’s condition.

SATURDAY NIGHT UPDATE:  Click to read official Press Release on conditions of plane victims.  South Carolina officials say four California residents died in the fiery Learjet crash that also critically injured former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM.  The Lexington County coroner said Saturday that pilot Sarah Lemmon of Anaheim Hills and co-pilot James Bland of Carlsbad died.  Also killed were passengers Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City , and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles.  Authorities say the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane headed for Van Nuys, Calif., went off a runway, through a fence and crashed on a nearby road.  Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical condition at a burn center in Augusta , Ga.