Aiken man sentenced to 38 years in murder case
Dae Kwon Jaheem Simmons 19 was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the 2019 murder of 42 year old Larry R Swearingen III on Laurens Street north Aiken. He was tried as an adult though he was 17 at the time and prosecutors described planned action with gun involvement.
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Larry R. Swearingen III
Swearingen
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Simmons
Zaxbys consider move to former Ruby Tuesday site in Aiken
Aiken Planning Commission voted 6 to 0 to recommend to City Council a concept plan approval and rezoning to place a Zaxbys at 2285 Whiskey Road beside Chick-fil-A. The project would replace the vacant Ruby Tuesday structure and include a 3000 square foot restaurant with 56 seats and a double drive thru.
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Whiskey Road
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Whiskey Road LLC
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Carter Engineering Consultants Inc
Watkinsville
Georgia
Board approves two CRT concerns classes for next year
Aiken County School Board approved African American Studies at Schofield Middle and Modern Culture at North Augusta Middle for seventh and eighth graders, amid community debate on critical race theory and related terms. The APEX multicultural studies program was not renewed due to lack of demand.
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South Carolina
APEX
Eugene White
NAACP
Patricia Hanks
Schofield Middle School
North Augusta Middle School
South Carolina reports lowest recidivism in U.S.
South Carolina, through an expanding program of job and life skills, cites a recidivism rate under 22 percent for inmates released in 2017. Corrections Director Bryan Stirling described past conditions at a bus stop and outlined eight years of reforms to aid reintegration.
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