Faulk seeks light sentence after Lake Kissimmee attack
In Kissimmee Florida a man Faulk convicted of attempted murder for shoving his wife overboard on Lake Kissimmee asks a judge to reduce seven year term to house arrest. His wife Charlotte of Lakeland joins to reconcile. prosecutors puzzled by reversal after a divorce filing and charges.
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Kissimmee
Fla
Faulk
Lake Kissimmee
Charlotte
Lakeland
Belvin Perry Jr
Jon Morgan
Deaths of local residents listed in brief notice
Obituary snippet lists the deaths of Jack H. Boykin Aiken Normalee L. Burke Bath Josephine Clayton Aiken Roy Davis Jackson Julius E. Jenkins North Augusta Bernice C. Morris Aiken Peter B. Turnell North Augusta details on page 6A
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Jack H. Boykin
Aiken Normalee
L. Burke
Bath
Josephine Clayton
Aiken
Roy €. Davis
Jackson
Julius E. Jenkins
North Augusta
Bernice C. Morris
Peter B. Turnell
State Abandons Youth Prison Plans Near Wagener
The South Carolina Department of Corrections said it abandoned plans to relocate the Aiken Youth Correction Center to Camp Rawls Road near Wagener due to water supply concerns and community opposition. Commissioner Parker Evatt cited infrastructure costs and a lack of a long-term lease as factors and said the department will keep seeking a site in Aiken County while the existing Wagener-area facility, located at Aiken Airport, employs over 100 staff with potential growth to 200.
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Columbia
S.C. Department of Corrections
Aiken
Wagener
Evatt
Bettis Academy Remembered and Its Legacy in Aiken
The article recalls Bettis Academy founded in 1881 and its rise through a 320 acre campus with 10 buildings, serving through elementary to junior college, and its demise in 1957. It highlights segregated era excitement, large July 4 events, and lasting losses from integration, with recollections from Rev. Brightharp and Mrs. Thurmond on education and community impact.
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Bettis Academy
Bettis
Aiken
Ak Lace
George Brightharp
Augusta
Edgefield
Defiant Iraq Sticks With Soviet Plan
The Gulf War moved toward a decisive moment as Iraq rebuffed a U S ultimatum demanding an immediate Kuwaiti pullout within eight days while embracing a Soviet peace proposal for a three week withdrawal. Iraq sought UN war damages intervention as U S forces prepared for a major assault amid Iraqi oil well burnings and civilian casualties.
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Iraq
Kuwait
U.S
United Nations
Persian Gulf
Battreine
Lance Cpl
James Hartzog
Saddam Hussein
Warrenville School Attendance Zone Spurred By Area 3 Focus
The Aiken County Board of Education will hear a recommendation to rescind prior plans for a new Warrenville Elementary attendance zone and instead limit the new 500 pupil school to Area 3 students. The proposal aims to ease overcrowding, with about 260 Area 3 Warrenville students and 75 from Byrd Elementary in Graniteville, plus 115 more from Kalmia Hills and other west Aiken areas, while keeping the overall size at 500. The meeting Tuesday at Paul Knox Middle School in North Augusta is open to the public.
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Warrenville
Aiken County
Aiken County Board of Education
Paul Knox
North Augusta
Wells Road
Cive
Joseph R. Brooks
Brooks
Byrd Elementary
Graniteville
Millbrook
Aiken
Kalmia Hills
Aiken Heights
Westcliff
West Aiken
James A. Moore
Area 1
Moore
Area 3
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C.A. Thurmond
Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press
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Moscow
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Gulf
Larry Wood
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