Aiken Christmas Parade Gallery Online
Readers who attended the Aiken Christmas Parade can view and upload photos in the online gallery at focusonyou.aikenstandard.com. The feature invites the public to share their parade moments and scenes from the event.
Weekend events calendar and local business highlights
The page previews weekend activities from Christmas events at Hopelands to area Christmas parades. It features stories on positive business news amid a tough economy and notes a British archaeologists discovery of an ancient skull with a remarkably preserved brain.
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Hopelands
Deaths and Funerals 6A
Richards V Campbell and others listed in Trenton Clearwater Langley Graniteville area among deaths and funeral notices. Names include Campbell Green Jennings Proctor Raborn Ruth Sullivan and Odell Sullivan with service details and burial arrangements in the local obituaries.
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Richard V. Campbell
Trenton
Leonard Green
Clearwater
Beryl Eugene Jennings
Langley
David Eugene Proctor
William Thomas Raborn
Aiken
Billy J. Ruth
North Augusta
O’dell
Thomas Sullivan
Graniteville
Aiken County Exit Polls Show Partisan Loyalty and Racial Tensions
USC Aiken students summarize 2008 exit polls where 95 percent of partisans backed their candidate. Obama drew strong African American support, while some voters held ethnic antipathy toward him. Younger voters favored Obama. a plurality viewed the Iraq war differently.
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Aiken County
John McCain
Barack Obama
USC Aiken
Public Service
Bob Botsch
Botsch
Obama
McCain
George W. Bush
Bush
John Kerry
Hussein Obama
Democratic Party
Obama taps Steven Chu as energy secretary pick
In CSRA areas where the energy department funds major projects, President-elect Obama selects Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate and advocate for alternative energy research, as the next energy secretary. Local officials express cautious anticipation over Chu's nuclear stance and future environmental impact.
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Department of Energy
Steven Chu
Barack Obama
Chu
CSRA
South Carolina
U.S
Gresham Barrett
Judge lowers Sentence in DUI death case
A circuit court judge reduced the sentence for Brandon William Taylor, who in 2007 drove drunk after using marijuana, fleeing blue lights and causing a wreck that injured three and killed one. The judge previously sentenced him to 12 years for failure to stop for blue lights resulting in death and felony DUI. later, a 20 year term was set with seven years to serve and five years probation.
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North Augusta
Cordell Maddox Jr
Brandon William Taylor
Maddox
Taylor
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