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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1999
Page
6
An ADPS bloodhound team traced suspects to Pendleton Street after a home robbery. The gunman is described as a Black male 20 to 25, about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. partner details and a blue purse with two snaps are noted. Call 42-7620 with information.
City Manager Roger LeDue describes a plan targeting high school and college drivers. Offenders could avoid tickets by completing an eight hour DPS training course and eight hours of community service. The program would cost students 330 dollars and aims to reduce insurance impacts.
Critics say the South Carolina Highway Patrol underrecruits women. Only 25 of 906 troopers are female, and few reach higher ranks. Officials note policy reviews and posting options aim to attract women, amid ongoing harassment and bias suits.
The Central Savannah River Geological Society will hold its next meeting Tuesday February 23 at 7 pm in room 827 of the Sciences building at the University of South Carolina Aiken. Dr Don Secor of USC Columbia will speak on The Carolina Terrane in Northeastern South Carolina History of an Exotic Volcanic Arc.
In a grim field report Mrs Lecompte notes a killed boar fed to soldiers while others go hungry and barefoot amid biting wind and bruised skies. Artist Anne Lattimore observes reenactment discomfort, yet remains bundled and practical in the sutlers’ row.
The Aiken Character First Steering Committee has finalized 12 traits to emphasize from March kickoff through the following year. Cavanaugh and committee members will visit Baton Rouge to study its community integration, then adapt lessons on respect truthfulness citizenship courage and more for local schools businesses and media. The March 25 kickoff launches April promotions of the first trait caring with updates through January for forgiveness sincerity and self discipline among others.
Aiken Department of Public Safety and South Carolina Highway Patrol flattened three of four tires on a burgundy Chevrolet Lumina during a Monday chase after stop sticks were deployed at S C 19 and Peach Orchard Road. The vehicle crashed at Hampton Avenue and Laurens Street and the driver was detained for troopers. A separate Friday incident involved a breaking and entering at an auto on Orangeburg Street with a pool stick stolen from the car.
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