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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1986
Page
7
A weather summary notes 20 to 30 percent rain chances today and tomorrow with highs in the low to mid 90s and nights in the 70s. For the three day period into Monday expect mostly sunny skies, warm temps, and scattered afternoon and evening showers or thunderstorms across regions including mountains Midlands and coastal areas.
A Soviet husband and wife tightrope team defected from the circus in Buenos Aires and landed in Miami. The couple, speaking through a translator, expressed happiness to be in America as they were driven away from Miami International Airport in an unmarked U.S. government car.
An undisclosed out-of-court settlement was reached with a woman who sued Charleston County Sheriff Charles F. Dawley for 1 million dollars after her husband died in the county jail. Dawley said he was unaware of the agreement and had expected trial before it was postponed. The suit cited jail crowding as a factor in Arnold Sidney Singleton's death on January 25, 1984 following a beating by inmate Antonio Randall Wright during a dispute over cigarettes. Singleton, 32, died three hours after the altercation at a naval medical center.
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