Students Complain Over Strip Search at Benedict College
Benedict College suspended its Upward Bound program after complaints that several dozen high school students were strip searched during a money hunt. President David Swinton called the incident a serious error in judgment and pledged action to protect the program's integrity. The Upward Bound director, with twenty years in the role, was suspended without pay.
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Columbia
Benedict College
Upward Bound
David Swinton
Swinton
Bakker Seen House Hunting in Fort Mill
Former television evangelist Jim Bakker was spotted in Fort Mill looking at a house with at least one local realty firm. Bakker's attorney says he was likely house hunting for his daughter rather than himself while babysitting his grandsons for gospel singer Tammy Sue Chapman.
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Fort Mill
Jim Bakker
Bakker
Tammy Sue Chapman
Jim Toms
Hendersonville
N.C
Randy Shaw speaks on his downfall and sewer project
Former New Ellenton mayor Randy Shaw discusses his role in the $5 million sewer project scandal. In a four part series, Shaw explains what happened in Aiken County and how his actions led to his federal sentencing, offering his side of the New Ellenton sewer system story.
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New Ellenton
Randy Shaw
Shaw
Aiken
Aiken Standard
Carl Langley
Obituary notices listed for several regional individuals
Death notices for Patricia W. Abrams Hallie Cox Marion Patrick E Doherty Myrtis Garvin Eubanks Wilbur Ralph Gibson Sid Granoff St Clair Prothro Guess Jr Thomas F Reynolds Sally Washington and others published on Page 2B at Williston Aiken Waynesboro Martinez Augusta Denmark and North Augusta. Local obituaries provide basic details and home towns for each deceased.
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Patricia W. Abrams
Williston
Hallie Cox
Marion
Patrick E. Doherty
Aiken Myrtis
Garvin Eubanks
Waynesboro
Wilbur Ralph Gibson
Denmark
Sid Granoff
Martinez St. Clair
Prothro Guess Jr
Thomas F. Reynolds
North Augusta
Sally Washington
Augusta
Platelet donation offers calm, patience and help to patients
Mary White recalls her first platelet donation at the Red Cross Donor Center. She describes the procedure as largely painless apart from the initial prick, lasting about an hour and a half, during which donors can nap or listen to music. Platelets aid clotting and are in high demand for cancer treatments and bone marrow transplants.
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Mary White
American Red Cross
Barry Pollard
Beasley Seeks Details After State of the State
South Carolina Governor David Beasley outlines a plan in his State of the State address centered on property tax relief welfare reform and job creation. He requests legislative detail with a GOP House majority to turn goals into laws and reduce residential property taxes.
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Columbia
David Beasley
House
David Wilkins
Beasley
Gov. Beasley
Statehouse
Beasley praised by South Carolina Democrat chair
Ronnie Maxwell, South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, commends David Beasley for endorsing ideas Democrats have long pushed and notes Republicans are not sole guardians of family values. He questions Beasley's ability to deliver on promises, citing tax relief and term limit proposals.
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South Carolina
Democratic Party
Ronnie Maxwell
David Beasley
Maxwell
Gov
Beasley
Re Enactment Set for Battle of Aiken Draws Students
Civil War re enactment organized by J Frank Byrd expected to bring over 500 schoolchildren to Sporting Days off U S 78 six miles east of Aiken for shows on February 24 25 and 26. The event will feature infantry cavalry and artillery with mock explosions and historians say Gen Joe Wheeler's Confederates face Col Kilpatrick's Union forces in a rare 30 year revival drawing reenactors from Virginia Alabama Florida Georgia and northern states. This encampment offers students a chance to ask about Confederate life and the soldiers on both sides while marking the first Aiken Battle of Aiken reenactment since 1965.
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J. Frank Byrd
Battle of Aiken
U.S
Aiken
Byrd
Joe Wheeler
Col. Kilpatrick
Wheeler
Kilpatrick
William Sherman
South
Graniteville
Augusta
Confederacy
Union
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Ern
Rivers Bridge
Dingle’s Mill
Joanna Glass
Sporting Days
Simpson defense surprise triggers objections in opening
In Los Angeles the Simpson trial opens with Cochran accusing prosecutors of withholding evidence and dropping new witness reports late. Hodgman objects repeatedly then suffers chest pains and is hospitalized as Ito contemplates delays or limiting defense witnesses.
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Los Angeles
O.J. Simpson
William Hodgman
Johnnie Cochran Jr
Simpson
Hodgman
Cochran
Lance Ito
Ito
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