Weekend fire kills Aiken man
An Aiken County man died Saturday afternoon when his mobile home burned in Balltown near Highway 19. Freddie Rouse, 53, was found dead inside his Wallace Green home after firefighters extinguished the blaze. Officials said the fire likely started from a kerosene heater. the case was ruled an accident and closed by the sheriff.
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Aiken County
Freddie Rouse
Wallace Green
Balltown
Aiken
Rouse
Four Die in Pa Blaze at Suburban Home
A Sunday morning fire in Fall Township, Levittown, Pennsylvania, claimed four lives from the Moore and Connor families. Four people died in the blaze, including a 4-year-old girl, her mother Colleen Connor, and the toddler’s grandparents Dale and Donald Connor. Neighbors pulled the child Kacie Moore from the home, but resuscitation failed. No working smoke detectors were found.
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Levittown
Philadelphia
Kacie Moore
Colleen Connor
Dale Connor
Donald Connor
Fall Township
South Aiken High Builds New Stadium for Thoroughbred Athletics
Progress at South Aiken High School includes concrete footers for bleachers and ongoing work on concessions and restrooms. Principal Bill Gassman notes crews work daily with likely spring soccer and track use and a hopeful football season. Sturdisteel handles bleachers and H G Reynolds concession stands as workers plan the home side first, then visitors, then press box and support facilities.
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South Aiken High School
Bill Gassman
Sturdisteel
H.G. Reynolds
Karen Carter
Gassman
Upstate South Carolina hit by winter storm power outages
The Upstate cites about 70,000 power losses across Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg, and surrounding counties as Duke Power crews restore 46,000 homes. One traffic death reported in Lancaster County from icy bridges. Schools closed or delayed. shelters opened in Anderson. Cows rescued from a collapsed York County barn after ice and snow. Temperatures forecast 35 to 40 degrees with possible rain or snow Tuesday night.
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Upstate
Highway Patrol Lance Cpl
D.K. Cusack
David Commander Jr
Lynchburg
Lancaster County
Cusack
Mike Morris
Commander
Duke Power Co
Anderson County
North Carolina
Greenville
Greenwood
Spartanburg
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative
Anderson
Chesterfield
Fairfield
Newberry
Jim Hodges
Abbeville
Cherokee
Chester
Lancaster
Laurens
Oconee
Pickens
Union
York
Highway Patrol
Dan Marsceau
Greenville-Spartanburg International
Rosylin Westin
York County
Troy Brown
Dean Williams
National Weather Service
SC Poll Finds Bush And Gore Leading In State
A Mason Dixon poll shows Bush leading McCain 51 to 24 among 411 GOP voters and Gore 62 to 19 over Bradley among 347 Democrats in South Carolina. Undecided voters comprise 19 percent. Data from Jan 18–19 interviews for The Post and Courier WCBD-TV News 2, with a plus or minus 5 point margin of error.
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Charleston
George W. Bush
al Gore
South Carolina
Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Company
Texas
Gov. Bush
Arizona
John McCain
Gore
New Jersey
Bill Bradley
The
Post and Couri
Wcbd-Tv News
Mason-Dixon
Brad Coker
McCain
Bush
Coker
Death notices listed for North Augusta and surrounding towns
January obituaries include Berta Lou Peak Bailey of Barnwell and Deaths and Funerals at multiple homes. Notables: Catherine Alexander Harn, Nancy Kirby Rush, Lowell F. Hagan, George Funeral Home Downtown Chapel, Stephen D. Posey Funeral Home, Rowland Funeral Home and Blizzard Funeral Home in Wagener.
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Berta Lou Peak Bailey
Barnwell
Mole
Lowell F. Hagan
Aiken
George
Catherine Alexander
Swoose
Harn
North Augusta
Stephen D. Posey
Nancy Kirby Rush
Rowland Funeral Home
Percy West
Wagener
Blizzard Funeral Home
Souper Bowl of Caring Seeks Wider Church Involvement
The Souper Bowl of Caring rallies churches and schools nationwide on Sunday Jan 30 aiming to raise 3.5 million dollars. Since 1990 the program started at Spring Valley Presbyterian in Columbia and has collected about 7 million for charities with 11,300 congregations and 15 denominations participating.
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Souper Bowl of Caring
Youth Fellowship
Spring Valley Presbyterian Church
Columbia
St. John’s United Methodist
Students fret over college bills and boredom
Ameli a's current college freshmen recall last year of high school as drudgery marked by worry and boredom in the UCLA survey of 260,000 students at 462 colleges. It notes one third attend community colleges, 55 percent are women, and 40 percent reported frequent boredom in high school.
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Amelia
University of California At
Los Angeles
UCLA
Higher Education Research Institute
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