Harpers 87 dies. services set at St John’s United Methodist
Virginia Bickley Harper 87 of Aiken died June 9 2002 at Pepper Hill Nursing Center. Funeral at 10 a.m. Thursday at St John’s United Methodist Church burial in Bush River Memorial Gardens Columbia. She worked on the Manhattan Project, taught first grade at Mead Hall Episcopal School retired 1973. Survived by daughter Jane Harper Cloninger siblings four grandchildren and one great grandson. Memorials to St John’s United Methodist Habitat for Humanity.
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Aiken Standard
Clyburn to lead planning of black history museum in Charleston
Rep Jim Clyburn will head the planning committee for a 37 million national Black History Museum in Charleston. Ruby Dee Ossie Davis Elie Wiesel will advise. design proposals sought next year. museum planned across from the South Carolina Aquarium. Charleston Mayor Riley says no competition with other sites. national museums seen as needed nationwide.
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Dapper Don dies in prison at 61 in Missouri
New York mob boss John Gotti known as the Dapper Don or The Teflon Don dies at 61 in a Springfield Missouri prison hospital after a career as head of the Gambino family. He led a high profile life, faced multiple acquittals, and was convicted on 14 counts including murder and racketeering after a long FBI surveillance effort.
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SC seat belt push tied to rising traffic deaths
South Carolina sees higher road fatalities this year despite a belt awareness effort. Forty eight deaths occurred during the May 20 to June 2 campaign with 29 unrestrained. Through June 8, 423 fatalities in 2026, up from 419 in the same period a year earlier, prompting talk of reviving primary seat belt enforcement.
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