Aiken native promoted to acting Secretary of the Navy
Retired Air Force Gen H Tillman Johnson as acting Secretary of the Navy in a defense agency revamp ahead of Homeland Security. Aiken High School 1963 graduate, Vietnam combat pilot, later Gulf War aviation chief, deputy secretary under Gordon England, and tied to Augusta through marriage.
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Air Force
H.tillman Johnson
Secretary of the Navy
Defense Agency
Homeland Security
Johnson
Aiken High School
US Air Force Academy
Gordon England
Navy
Clemson University
Air Academy
Vietnam
Air Transport Command
England
Naval
Linda Whittle
Augusta
South Carolina strategists leave mark in GOP wins
South Carolina operatives Scott Howell and Heath Thompson aided campaigns that gave the GOP control in the US Senate and boosted the state as a national political hub. The article notes their work in Minnesota and Missouri and places SC's early presidential primary as a career launchpad for strategists like Warren Tompkins and the late Lee Atwater.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Senate
Scott Howell
Heath Thompson
Minnesota
Missouri
Norm Coleman
R-Minn
GOP
Earl Black
Rice University
Warren Tompkins
Lee Atwater
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Atwater
Tompkins
Black
Moffatt Burriss
Howell
Washington
Republican National Committee
Karl
Rove
Bush
Austin
Texas
Coleman
Jim Talent
Thompson
Bob Peelers
Mark Sanford
Peeler
Walter Mondale
Danielle Vinson
Furman University
Fatal Accident Scene Delayed by Motoring Aid
A fatal crash left Santos dead in a minivan as bystanders restrained by motorists helped at the scene. Officials described parts scattered along Atomic Road near Highway 78 while South Carolina troopers documented the wreck in freezing rain.
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Santos
South Carolina
Atomic Road
North Augusta
Clarke
Pole wreck and store reopening stall traffic
Aiken Department of Public Safety ladder truck clipped a telephone pole en route to a smoke call near Barnwell Avenue and Chesterfield Street. No injuries to occupants, traffic rerouted by troopers, east and southbound lanes remained closed last night with no timeline for full reopening.
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Aiken Department of Public Safety
Barnwell Avenue
Chesterfield Street
Hall
South Carolina Highway Patrol
Newberry Street
Wal-Mart
Winter ice storm hits Upstate South Carolina
The National Weather Service warns of continued freezing rain and sleet across Cherokee York and Lancaster counties as winter weather advisories extend to the Midlands. Power outages affect Duke Power customers while authorities report icy roads and scattered incidents through Sunday into Monday.
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Lafe
Lee County
Aiken-to- Columbia
Bishopville
Associated Press
National Weather Service
Cherokee
Lancaster
Union
York Counties
York County
York
Chesterfield
Fairfield
Newberry
North Carolina
Spartanburg
Greenville
Georgia State Line
Midlands
South Carolina
Duke Power
Cherokee County
Harlem Renaissance program chronicles 1910s struggle and 1920s gains
The program recounts lynching of 76 black men in 1919 including soldiers in uniform and notes splits within the community over methods to gain equality. It highlights leaders like Marcus Garvey and W E B Du Bois and praises James Weldon Johnson Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes while detailing jazz, Ragtime, Shuffle Along and Harlem's late renaissance downturn.
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Baron Hickson
Marcus Garvey
Program Magazine
W E.B. DuBois
James Weldon Johnson
Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
Shirley Lewis
Johnson
Lewis
Harlem
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