Manhunt nets two arrests in Graniteville burglary
A burglary on Whaley Pond Road led to a afternoon manhunt across Graniteville with two men, Isaiah Devon Miles and Jabari Williams, taken into custody and charged with burglary first degree and assault with intent to kill. A third suspect remained at large as responders formed a wide perimeter.
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Graniteville
Whaley Pond Road
Connie Storey
Michael Frank
Aiken County
Lott
Frank
Breezy Hill Road
Ascauga Lake Road
North Augusta
Isaiah Devon Miles
Biscayne Road
Chalk Bed Road
Jabari Williams
Old Cherokee Indian Road
Deaths of Notable Local Figures in Aiken and Wagener
Obituary notes report deaths of Robert L. Collum of Wagener Marjorie Huston and Frank Owen Smith of Aiken and Raleigh Bill Yelton of Aiken. The notices acknowledge their passing and identify their communities and initials.
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Robert L. Collum
Wagener
Marjorie Huston
Aiken
Frank Owen Smith
W Raleigh
Bill) Yelton
Fire injures father and two children at New Ellenton trailer park
A house fire at B&B Trailer Park in New Ellenton sent a 30 year old father Carl Golden, his 2 year old son, and 8 month old daughter to the hospital Thursday afternoon. Fire started in a wood stove near US 278 and caused minor smoke inhalation and a first degree burn to the father’s forehead.
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B&b
New Ellenton
Carl Golden
Fire department aids baby and toddler in home blaze
New Ellenton Fire Department responders battled a home fire while firefighters cleared smoke. First responders administered oxygen to a baby and a toddler on the scene.
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New Ellenton
Brothers' execution date set for two South Carolina inmates
Two half brothers from Salley, Larry Gilbert and J D Gleaton, were given execution dates of December 4 for a 1976 holdup murder at a service station in South Congaree. The case, the first under the state’s current capital punishment law, was tried in Lexington County.
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Columbia
Salley
Larry Gilbert
J.D. Gleaton
South Carolina Supreme Court
Gilbert
Gleaton
South Congaree
Ralph
Stoudemire
Lexington County
Rodney Peeples
Donnie V. Myers
Robert W. Mance III
Charlie Condon
US. Supreme Court
Department of Corrections
Ernest Finney
Condon
Hadden certified winner in Aiken Board race
The Aiken County Elections Commission reported the official canvass of the November 3 general election showed Hadden winning Seat 2 on the Aiken Board of Education after gaining one vote over Frances Bell. Write‑in favorites won seats on several local bodies, including Murphy, McNair, Sealy, Reece, Ruvo, Hayward, and others.
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Aiken County Registrations and Elections Commission
Art Hadden
Frances Bell
Aiken Board of Education
Lorraine McNair
Aiken County
Soil and Water Conservation
Ben Sealy
Warrenville ‘Water Commission
Jerry Reece
Clearwater Water Commission
Gloria Ruvo
James Hayward
Belvedere Fire Commission
Denton Johnson
Irene Rudnick
Carl Langley
House
Harley Drew
Congress
Hodges visits Lancaster school to push education plan
Governor-elect Jim Hodges kept to his education theme by visiting North Elementary School in Lancaster with the media. He read to a kindergarten class, spoke of a diverse cabinet, and discussed transitioning teams and funding, noting no Beasley cabinet retention decisions yet.
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Hodges
Lancaster
Jim Hodges
Sylvester and
the Magic Pebble
Luke
North Elementary
North
House
David Beasley
Kevin Geddings
South Carolina
South
Springs
Geddings
Beasley
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Sheriff's Office
Scott Webster
I-20
Fuliams
Miles
Abby
Aiken's
Shoneys
Ambulan
Sharon Taylor
Hadden
Hudges
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