Public trust at stake as license fraud case unravels in South Carolina
Editorial notes a growing scandal of bogus driver licenses and alcohol permits tied to the South Carolina DMV. SLED charges name Mario Fabrian Pauling Kevin Taylor and Mandel Dwayne White with running the ring while Terrance Graves faced related fraud. calls for tighter monitoring and accountability across licensing agencies. White remains at large as a suspect in a home invasion and murder. The piece urges stronger controls to prevent taxpayer money from being diverted and to ensure licensing is transparent and properly supervised.
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Mario Fabrian Pauling
Kevin Taylor
Columbia
State Division of Motor Vehicles
Mandel Dwayne White
Hopkins
White
Terrance K. Graves
Graves
New York
Pentagon
South Carolina
ABC
DMV
Aiken Standard Staff and Editorial Leadership List
The Aiken Standard announces its leadership lineup including Publisher Scott B Hunter Editor Jeffrey B Wallace Advertising Director Art Zappa Business Manager Ellen C Priest Managing Editor Timothy E OBriant Production Director Phillip Yates Circulation Director Deborah Dyches Systems Manager J David Boyd Customer Service Manager Letitia Jefferson.
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Scott B. Hunter
Ealitor
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Art Zappa
Ellen C. Priest
Timothy E. O'Briant
Phillip Yates
Deborah Dyches
J. David Boyd
Letitia Jefferso
Family thanks Evans monument firm for completing headstone engraving
A Columbia Monument Company in Evans, Georgia, and Elliott Sons Funeral Home are thanked for finishing a 15 month delay to engrave a death date on a headstone after a funeral for the author’s father in December 2000. The writer, frustrated by excuses, found Moore Wilbert Vault Company via the internet and received a prompt call and completion within days, with follow up from Elliott Sons.
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Sinesses
Columbia Monument Company
Evans
Elliott Sons Funeral Home
Moore Wilbert Vault Company
Columbia Monument
Elliott
David Rosling Ser
Retirement gaps for women spark calls for policy change
Pete du Pont argues in Washington at a Women In the Economy conference that elderly women face poverty at far higher rates than men. He cites low 401k balances, heavy reliance on Social Security, and unpaid homemaking work as key factors, urging higher IRA limits and extended pension coverage for part time and women workers.
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Detroit
Chevrolet
Washington D.C
President Bush
Mom
After Saddam toppled the Middle East could unravel
Ehsan Ahram, a Norfolk based strategic analyst, argues ousting Saddam Hussein risks fragility in Iraq and a broader postwar chaos. He notes rival ethnic and regional tensions, potential disintegration into Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite blocs, and possible Turkish and Iranian pushes for influence. He questions postwar nation building and US long term presence.
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Iraq
Saddam
Hussein
Afghanistan
United States
Pushtoon
Northern Alliance
Abdul Rahman
Kabul
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Joseph Biden
Dick Cheney
White House
Turkey
Iran
Somalia
Middle East
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