Surrender in Greensboro Klan Nazi case heads to federal court
Three defendants including Coleman Pridmore Roland Wood and Jerry Smith surrendered in Winston-Salem to face charges for conspiring to disrupt the 1979 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro that left five Communist Workers Party members dead. The six Klansmen and three American Nazi Party members named by a federal grand jury face arraignments with a trial date set.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Greensboro
Communist Workers Party
U.S
Michael Johnson
Coleman B. Pridmore
Lincolnton
Cyclops
Invisible Empire
Roland W. Wood
Forsyth County
National Socialist Party of America
American Nazi Party
Jerry P. Smith
Malden
March consumer prices edge up amid food surge
The Labor Department reports March CPI up 0.1 percent as food prices jump 4.4 percent, offsetting declines in fuel costs. For Q1, prices rose 0.4 percent annualized, lowest quarterly gain since 1965, with Social Security benefits rising 3.5 percent next January.
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Washington
Labor Department
California
Florida
Victim Rights Week Honors Local Crime Victim
The report details Richard Tullis who was attacked with lye in a Aiken convenience store incident. He lost an eye and later divorced. he now works with the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and walks or rides to work. The piece marks Victim Rights Week and notes victims’ legal rights and recovery challenges.
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Lye
Richard Tullis
Phil Ones
Tullis
S.C Commission For the Blind
Aiken County
Aiken
Evans Ready For Anything After Reprieve From Execution
Convicted murderer John Louis Evans III won a last minute stay of execution for the second time in four years as his appeal moves to the U S Supreme Court. Evans killed a mobile pawnbroker during a 1977 robbery and had last rites before learning the stay was granted by a U S district judge.
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Atmore
Ala
John Louis Evans III
U.S. Supreme Court
Evans
U.S
Holman Prison
Education chief Charlie Williams at Graniteville Exchange Club event
State Superintendent Charlie Williams spoke after Clarence Dickert introduced him at the Graniteville Exchange Club Student of the Year ceremony. Williams joked about Clarence’s lengthy talk while noting a horse trailer got stuck on the Union Street bridge.
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Charlie Williams
Clarence Dickert
Graniteville Exchange Club
Clarence
Williams
Union Street Bridge
Whitney Field
Charlie Herrick
High Bridge
Herrick
Domestic Violence Impacts Extend Beyond Abusers
The piece notes domestic violence harms not only couples but children, neighbors, and communities. It cites a 1979 Kentucky Harris survey showing 10 percent of wives abused at home versus 2 percent outside. Naomi Frost-Hewitt asks if society should be safe at home, while officials say domestics dominate time and risk for law enforcement.
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Louis Harris
Kentucky
Naomi Frost-Hewitt
The
Aiken Coalition
Domestic violence spans families and society
Aiken Standard discusses that spouse abuse harms children and society, with 21 percent of wives reporting abuse. It notes that violent behavior can stem from insecure, double-faced abusers who blame partners and lash out during economic stress, often hiding the cruelty behind a loving facade.
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Bankers Trust
Laurens Street
Usc-Aiken
Ginny Southworth
Cathy Hughes
Ms. Frost-Hewitt
Frost-Hewitt
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