Talkback comments on taxes politics and media in Aiken
Readers discuss property tax bills unemployment and media issues in a heated TalkBack column. They comment on guns speed limits Washington DC politics and local infrastructure while inviting reader participation.
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Aikenstandard
Aiken
Sentencing set for four sex trafficking conspirators
Four admitted members of a sex trafficking conspiracy plead guilty and await sentencing March 21 before U.S. District Judge Margaret Seymour. The case centers on Hispanic women transported from Georgia to Aiken and Lexington counties for prostitution. A related defendant had charges dismissed. others described coercive acts, beatings, rape, and confinement at makeshift brothels.
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Ruben Cabanas-Torres
Donaciano Tecpa-Tecpa
Esteban Acosta-Munoz
Maria Garcia-Moreno
Georgia
Aiken County
Margaret Seymour
Maria de Jesus Roque-Llanas
U.S. Attorney's Office
Stat
Roque
Aiken
Lexington
U.S
Tommie DeWayne Pearson
Lexington County
West Columbia
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Monetta
Leesville
Giving with Ant charity art sale at Southside Gallery
Southside Gallery at the Village at Woodside hosts Giving with Ant to benefit Relay For Life and the American Cancer Society. Local artists, Relay participants, door prizes, specials, light refreshments, and a Mike Jones print giveaway headline the event.
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Southside Gallery
Aiken
Relay For Life
American Cancer Society
Aiken Design Center
Woodside
Southside
Cris Abbot
Abbott
Mike Jones
Boundary Oaks
Ant
Giving with Art Opens at Southside Gallery
The Southside Gallery hosts Giving with Art Wednesday from 5 to 7 pm at 230 Visage Green Blvd with free admission. In February 2009, contact Abbott at 645-6970 for details about the event and the gallerys move from Centre South Shopping Center on Silver Bluff Road.
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Southside Gallery
Visage Green Blvd
Centre South
Silver Bluff Road
Southside
Abbott
United Way of
Aiken ‘County
Abbot
Africa wildlife lessons shape USC Aiken speaker Beckner
Conservationist Michael Beckner recalled his Tanzania work shaping his approach to protecting wildlife. He described anti poaching training, ranger selection, and dangerous conditions including malaria and gunfire, in a seminar at USC Aiken as he plans to continue conservation work in the United States.
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Michael Beckner
Africa
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Mike
Loretta Beckner
Beckner
Tanzania
East Africa
Equator
Serengeti National Park
Mount Kilimanjaro
Tanz Ania
Friedkin Conservation Fund
Jane Goodall
Rangers
Center
Sheldon Davis
Aiken High School
Woman foils attempted car theft outside Dollar Tree
A woman interrupted a vehicle break in outside a Dollar Tree on South Aiken Lane when a white male suspect in a camouflage jacket tripped and fled after rummaging through her purse in a Ford F-150. Police say nothing was missing and the vehicle fled past Gold’s Gym.
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Aiken
Dollar Tree
Rman
Hero
Gold
North Augusta man’s sentence halved after guideline change
Freddie Lee Roper, of North Augusta, was convicted in 2010 of conspiracy to traffic crack cocaine. His 20 year prison term, the minimum at the time, was reduced to under 10 years following changes to Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
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Aiken County
Freddie Lee Roper
North Augusta
Ropers
Augusta
Roper
U.S
FSG
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