Video poker tops S C legislative agenda says Aiken delegation
Aiken County lawmakers push video poker as the opening item when the General Assembly reconvenes. Rep Charles Sharpe and Sen Greg Ryberg urge action while noting opposition to electronic gambling. Ryberg argues the issue challenges the constitution and hints at a potential civil suit.
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Aiken County
General Assembly
Charles Sharpe
Rwagener
Aiken
Greg Ryberg
R-Aiken
Ryberg
Deaths in Aiken and Burnettown Names Minnie Mason Hallman Raines and William Leach Jr
Minnie Lee Mason Aiken Gracie Hallman Raines of Burnettown and William Addison Leach Jr. of Aiken are reported dead. Details of services or ages are not provided in the brief death notices.
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Minnie Lee Mason
Aiken
Gracie Hallman Raines
Burnettown
William Addison Leach Jr
Georgia Lotto Saturday Winning Numbers Report
Georgia lottery results reveal cash prize drawing at 9 52 38 with sash 2 and numbers 42 40 16 2 46 11. The report lists the drawing date as Saturday and notes prize details for the Georgia Lotto game.
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Cash
Sash
Georgia Lotto
Longstreet memorial dedicated in South Carolina hometown
Historians and heritage-minded citizens gathered in a rural Aiken Edgefield county area to honor James Longstreet, lifelong South Carolina resident and Confederate lieutenant general, with a granite monument at his birthplace. The three hour ceremony drew visitors from Georgia, several Confederate and Union reenactors, and officials from states including North Carolina Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Ohio Delaware Pennsylvania.
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North Augusta
South Carolina
Aiken-Edgefield
James Longstreet
First Corps
Army of
Northern Virginia
Georgia
Longstreet
North Carolina
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Ohio
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Clinton urges ban on human cloning in radio address
President Clinton called cloning by an independent Chicago scientist untested and unsafe and morally unacceptable. He pressed Congress to pass a comprehensive five year ban, citing the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and an executive order prohibiting federal funding for such work.
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Washington
Clinton
Chicago
Congress
Richard S
Dolly
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Bioethics Commission
Gallman sworn in as SC NAACP president
Columbia Aiken resident James Gallman was sworn in Saturday as president of the South Carolina NAACP. A longtime educator and Aiken County NAACP leader, he was elected in October and succeeds Dr. WE. Gibson. Gallman calls for unity and outlines priorities for the coming years. The inauguration occurred at 2 pm with Rev. Joseph Darby delivering the speech.
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Solumbia
Aiken
James Gallman
South Carolina
NAACP
Gallman
Aiken County
Friendship Baptist Church
Barnwell
Galliman
Joseph Darby
St. Philip African Methodist Episcopal Church
Eastover
Dr. WE. Gibson
Greenville
Wrongdoing charged in raids
Greenville attorney for Fred Collins seeks access to state records tied to Dec 22 raids on two Collins Entertainment warehouses. Motion targets Attorney General and State Law Enforcement Division files, memos, and phone records, plus names of involved employees, arguing selective prosecution and a newspaper ad bias.
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Greenville
Upstate
Ing
State Attorney General's Office
State Law Enforcement Division
Collins Entertainment
Collins
Diane Cagle
Ghent
Greenville News
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