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Two Aiken County residents died and three other travelers were injured in a three vehicle crash on Saturday night near Aiken on S C 19 in front of Unity Holiness Church. A van crossed the center line and hit a northbound tractor trailer causing both vehicles to ignite. The van burned to bare metal and remained on the roadway for hours. The injured were taken to Aiken Regional Medical Centers. The tractor trailer driver and passenger were from Kentucky. Local fire and sheriff crews assisted at the scene.
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Aiken
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Lance
Charles Heddy
S.C. Highway Patrol
Heddy
Camden
Kentucky
Deaths Wilma Lewis Johnston Bath
Wilma Lewis Johnston, longtime resident of Bath, died peacefully. Services are pending with arrangements by the Bath Funeral Home. She is survived by her children and several grandchildren.
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Wilma Lewis Johnston
Bath
Bertha Slams North Carolina Coast With Destructive Force
Hurricane Bertha battered Cape Fear and coastal towns with 105 mph winds, toppling a Ferris wheel and flooding roads. Over 250,000 fled beaches as 390,000+ lost power. dunes washed away and several piers damaged. Six people injured at Camp LeJeune as eye passed near Morehead City and Bald Head Island.
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Wilmington
N.C
Cape Fear
Carolinas
Allen Sipe
Kure Beach
Cape Fear River
Atlantic
Sipe
Shell Island
Wrightsville Beach
Tony Caudle
Bertha
Camp LeJeune
Barrier Islands
Morehead City
Naval Hospital
Rick Mill
Mill
Norfolk
Topsail Beach
Chincoteague
Albemarle
Pamlico
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
Bald Head Island
Olympic hostess from Aiken to assist visitors in Atlanta
Sissy Brodie Brodie plans to carry flags from 25 nations and help international tourists during the Atlanta Summer Olympics. An event planner, she will leave Wednesday for three and a half weeks, coordinating housing and transportation and guiding guests to events despite a potential three hour downtown travel time. She emphasizes the once in a lifetime nature of the assignment and remains optimistic despite the crowds and negativism.
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Sissy Brodie
Atlanta
Brodie
Aiken
Ner
New citizens urged to embrace America first
Seventy three new Americans were naturalized in a ceremony at the Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Courthouse where Judge Charles E. Simons Jr. presided. Dr. Leonard Kosinski urged new citizens to learn English and American history and to cherish their new nation. The oath of allegiance was administered as deputies and 29 District Court officials attended.
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America
Leonard Kosinski
Kosinski
United States of America
Charles E. Simons Jr. Federal Courthouse
Charles E. Simons Jr
Simons
Pat Fernandez
Bond set for woman in husband's murder
Circuit Judge Tom Ervin set a 10000 dollar bond Friday for Deloris Redd Lanham 33 of Belvedere charged with murder in her husband Larry Lanham 38 shot in the head during a domestic dispute The suspect cannot post bond until Sunday per the family wishes The murder case follows Lanham dying at an Augusta hospital Aiken County investigators arrested Lanham after she reported the shooting and two shots were fired from a 357 Magnum but one hit Lanham In a separate proceeding Ervin also sentenced Lannie Stroman 38 of Aiken to concurrent 15 and 20 year terms on burglary and criminal sexual conduct charges with at least 80 percent of the sentence to be served before parole consideration
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Aiken County
Deloris Redd Lanham
Belvedere
Aiken County Detention Center
Second Judicial Circuit Solicitor’s Office
Larry Lanham
Augusta Hospital
Lanham
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