North Augusta double death ties to family dispute
Police say a father Samuel Hewlett 52 shot his son Brandon Hewlett 21 at 27 Woodvine Drive North Augusta then killed himself around 9 30 a m. The mother was away and found the bodies. Deputies found them at 10 30 a m in the Windtree subdivision. Autopsies scheduled in Newberry.
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North Augusta
Aiken County
Tim Carlton
Samuel Hewlett
Brandon Hewlett
Woodvine Drive
Augusta
Carlton
Windtree Subdivision
Newberry
Saluda man recalls Dr. King influence and civil rights work
Charlie S. Daniel, 84, of Saluda, recalls the Birmingham 1963 MLK letter and his NAACP leadership work here. He describes facing violence and death threats while fighting inequality and opposing biased capital punishment as a local civil rights advocate.
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MLK
Saluda
Dr. King
Charlie S. Daniel
Martin Luther King Jr
Birmingham
Daniel
Saluda County
NAACP
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
Church revisits history of civil rights for MLK Day
The Aiken Unitarian Universalist Church on Gregg Avenue marked Martin Luther King Jr Day with a history focused service a day before the holiday chair Naomi Frost-Hewitt said the church renews commitment to civil rights The 2014 program drew on Richard D Leonard en titled Call to Selma and echoed a 2008 event Historians view the Selma to Montgomery marches as a high point of the civil rights movement After Bloody Sunday King urged clergy and citizens to Alabama hosted about 500 UU ministers and members to join the effort See CHURCH Page 5A
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Aiken
Frost- Hewitt
Richard D. Leonard
Selma
Frost-Hewitt
Selma To Montgomery
Alabama
King
Unitarian Universalist
Area Deaths List Reflects Local Losses
The obituaries page lists Everett T. Summerall Jr. of Aiken Jeffrey L. Leopard of Warrenville Mary Ellen Hill Shugart of Athens Tennessee Nell Shepherd Johnson of Aiken and Richard Anthony DeMasi Jr. of Blythewood with Deaths and Funerals noted on page 6A.
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Everett T. Summerall Jr
Aiken
Jeffrey L. Leopard
Warrenville
Mary Ellen Hill Shugart
Athens, Tenn
Nell Shepherd Johnson
Richard Anthony DeMasi Jr., Blythewood
Streets named for MLK face urban decay in St. Louis
A six mile stretch on Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive shows shuttered stores pawn shops and liquor outlets with similar decay seen in Houston Milwaukee and Washington DC. Melvin White founder of Beloved Streets of America calls it a national problem and says King would be distressed by the scene.
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ST. Louis
Martin Luther King Jr
Louis
Houston
Milwaukee
Melvin White
King
Jeff Roberson
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