Death toll rises to 43 in county road fatalities
Aiken County reports 43 deaths after a weekend of crashes. Tori Lynn Childs, 28, of Aiken died Sunday on Old Barnwett Road near Mt. Beulah Road when her Hyundai ran off the road and overcorrected, crossing the center line into a Ford Explorer driven by Kevin E. Wimberly, who was uninjured. The crash remains under investigation with no charges filed. A second fatality occurred on I 20 near the 27 mile marker in Augusta resident John Patrick Ardis, 44, after a Porsche Boxster reached over 140 mph before losing control. Ardis died at the scene. toxicology is pending and alcohol is suspected. A third fatality occurred in Edgefield County when Nina E. Gray, 46, and two passengers failed to stop at US 378 and 25, colliding with a Ford Explorer driven by Luther and Mary Mowler. Gray died two hours later. Authorities say charges are pending.
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Aiken
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Hughes
Childs
John Patrick Ardis
Augusta
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Wire Road
Ardis
Tim Carlton
Edgeeld County
Prosperity
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Semih Can Ulgen
Gray
Lance Cpl
Jeff Daniels
SCHP
Luther and
Mary Mowler
Chatsworth
Algen
UCB Bioproducts expanding at North Augusta park
UCB Bioproducts, a division of Belgium based UCB Group, plans a new laboratory and 10,000 square foot facility in North Augusta Industrial Park across from UCB Chemicals. Mayor Lark Jones says the expansion should create about 65 jobs by end of 2002 and boost regional tech development.
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UCB
Chamber of Commerce
South Carolina Department of Commerce
James Morris
North Augusta
Lark Jones
North Augustan
UCB Chemicals
Mattie C. Hall Health Care Center Nets Multiple Honors
Mattie C. Hall Health Care Center collected three awards over two weeks. At the Southeastern Aging Network Conference it won the 2001 Outstanding Community Intergenerational Award and the Positive Images of Aging Award for Camp Wee Journey. The center also received DHEC's Spirit of Caring Award for its neighborhood concept and home-like atmosphere.
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Southeastern Aging Network
Wee Journey
Savannah Area
Patricia Bishop
DHEC
Spirit
Bishop
Suspect sought in grand larceny in Aiken downtown
Aiken police seek Braun Pruitt in a grand larceny case involving theft of $150,000 in boating equipment from a Richland Avenue business between Oct 27 and Thursday. Items include a 53 foot Stoghton trailer valued at $25,000 with Minnesota plates PTK 7515 and Polaris water craft worth about $125,000. Over by Trucking is named as the carrier. The suspect may drive a teal 1999 International truck with plate PAB 1189 and Overby Trucking emblems.
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Aiken
Braun Pruitt
Richland Avenue
Teen arrested at football game in North Augusta
Joshua Jones, 16, of Belvedere, on probation for bringing a gun and bullets to school in May, was arrested Friday night for trespassing and disorderly conduct at a North Augusta High School football game. An officer said Jones did not have permission to be there. the principal denied granting it. He was released to his father.
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North Augusta
Joshua Jones
Belvedere
Jones
Pair sought in machine robbery in Aiken
Aiken police seek two men involved in a coin machine robbery caught on video on October 29. Detectives describe one suspect as 5 foot 11, medium build, brown hair. the other as 6 to 6 foot 2, dark hair, long sideburns and a goatee. Call Detective Hall at 642-7620 with tips.
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Aiken
Aiken Department of Public Safety
Wendell Hall
Walgreens project rejected by North Augusta council
North Augusta residents greet a possible riverfront boat dock as the city council unanimously rejected Walgreens plan to place a drug store at Georgia Avenue and Martintown Road. The decision affirmed the planning commission and kept a community boat dock requirement in the River Golf Club development.
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Ridgecrest Drive
River Golf Club
Lark Jones
Planning Commission
Ken McDowell
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