Three Injured In Ridge Spring Elementary Stabbing
A volatile scene outside Ridge Spring Monetta Elementary after a basketball game left two women and a juvenile arrested for assault and battery with attempt to kill. Officer Willie Brunson sustained a side stab while Gracie Wald o required about 30 stitches for a wrist wound. Ronald Waldo, 17, was also stabbed as his mother Gracie Wald o and the officer intervened during the altercation.
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Ridge Spring
Ridge Spring-Monetta
Abigal Morris
Joann Morris
Harbin B. Rikard
Willie James Brunson
Gracie Lee Waldo
Thurmond Keeps Car After Leaving Past
The Senate approved a resolution to continue providing U S Senator Strom Thurmond with a limousine and driver though he no longer serves as president pro tempore. The 84 year old South Carolina Republican had held the post since 1981 until Democrats won a majority in November.
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Thurmond
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
Mild weekend forecast for Aiken area
Aiken residents can expect a mild weekend with a tonight low in the mid 30s and a tomorrow high in the low 60s. Clear skies are forecast tonight and tomorrow.
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Aiken
Deaths William B. Goggans Jr Theresa Mack
Notice of death for William B. Goggans Jr of Newberry and Theresa Mack of North Augusta with details on Page 6A.
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William B. Goggans Jr
Newberry
Theresa Mack
North Augusta
Woman Dies After North Augusta Wreck
An unidentified woman died on arrival at Talmadge Memorial Hospital after losing control of her car on Duncan Road in North Augusta. The vehicle struck a bridge, went over a guard rail into a creek. Responding agencies included the South Carolina Highway Patrol and Aiken County emergency services. Identifications were lost in the creek and family contact had not been made. No other passengers were reported.
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North Augusta
Lifebird
Talmadge Memorial Hospital
Duncan Road
South Carolina Highway Patrol
Aiken County
US posts record 169 billion trade deficit in 1986
The Commerce Department reports a 1986 trade deficit of 169.8 billion dollars, the largest on record, with December imports exceeding exports by 10.7 billion. December’s gap narrowed from November’s 19.2 billion, while total year figures show imports at 387.1 billion and exports at 217.3 billion, despite a 7 percent rise in imports.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Reagan
Therm-O-Disc to Transfer Aiken Plant to Emerson Unit
Therm-O-Disc Inc. plans to transfer its Aiken plant to a division of its parent Emerson Electric Co. Expected to cause temporary job disruptions for about 500 employees. Management to brief workers this afternoon with a 1:30 p.m. press conference at USC Aiken hosted by the Economic Development Board of Aiken County.
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Therm-O-Disc, Inc
Aiken
Mike Holliman
Therm-O-Disc
Economic Development Board
Senate Rejects Pay Raise Ties It To Homeless Aid Vote
The Senate rejected a $12,100 congressional pay raise and attached an amendment tying it to a $50 million homeless aid bill, sending the measure to the House where action is uncertain before the next week’s effective date.
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Gordon J. Humphrey
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Congressional
Pete Wilson
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Humphrey
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