Working Man's Special Returns At Al's Family Restaurant
North Augusta crowd fills Atomic Road eatery as Al's Family Restaurant reopens after five weeks. The Working Man's Special lists eat in 3.25 and carry-out 3.50 plus tax. Owner Butch Bone credits speedy repairs by Weststar Construction and DPS assistance, with updates like new paint wiring and booths. Local patrons praise the menu and familiar favorites as the reopen celebration continues.
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Atomic Road
John Wayne
North Augusta
Butch Bone
Chairman denies racial nature of test score comments
Aiken County Board of Education chairman Dr John Bradley says his remarks linking genetics and environment to test scores were not racial in nature. NAACP leader James Gallman says the comments send a bad message to parents and educators about expectations. The Aiken Standard article quoted Bradley noting some children will lag grade level due to factors other than schooling.
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John Bradley
Aiken County
James Gallman
South Carolinian
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Gallman
Aiken Standard
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Mondas
Regular fasting matches calorie reduction in mice
A new study finds alternating fasting, with gorge days allowed, yields similar health benefits to daily 40 percent calorie cuts. Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that health improvements from dieting are not fully understood, prompting further study.
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National Academy of Sciences
Man given 15 years for murder plot
A. 43 year old Graniteville man was sentenced to 15 years for soliciting the murders of his two stepchildren. Barry E. LaFavor pled guilty to two counts of solicitation to commit a felony. He received 10 years for the stepdaughter Lea Snipes and five for the stepson Michael Graham.
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Nan
Barry E. LaFavor
Kalmia Apartments
General Sessions
Lea Snipes
Michael Graham
Aiken County
Family faces PACT testing hurdles for autistic children
Amy Weeks explains how her children Megan and Bill Weeks, students at J.D. Lever Elementary, navigate the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests. Megan, 12, will take English and math at her grade level, while Bill, 9, in a self-contained class, completed an alternative PACT. Amy voices bias against standardized testing and questions its validity for her kids.
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Aiken County
Egin
Megan Weeks
Bill
Amy Weeks
J.D. Lever
Amy
Megan
Leigh Watkins
Southern 4.5 quake shakes Southeast near Rome Georgia
An early Tuesday 4.5 magnitude earthquake centered near the Alabama Georgia line, about 27 miles northwest of Rome, rattled windows and shelves from North Carolina to Kentucky with no reports of serious damage.
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Alabama
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US Geological Survey
North Carolina
Kentucky
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