Storm systems threaten Southeast as Jeanne moves toward coast
Aiken residents monitor Tropical Storm Jeanne and Karl while remnants of Hurricane Ivan drift away. Forecasters expect Jeanne to approach Florida and possibly track up the coast to Georgia and South Carolina. Weekend weather will be pleasant with a 20 percent rain chance and mid 80s highs.
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Ivan
Aiken
Aiken County
Jeanne
Richard Charnick
National Weather Service
Columbia
Puerto Rico
Karl
Atlantic Ocean
Weather Channel
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Charnick
Jeanne Downgraded Tropical Low Hits Dominican Republic
Tropical storm Jeanne battered the Dominican Republic with wind and rain causing mudslides and collapsed walls before downgrading to a tropical low and moving toward the Bahamas. Eight people died across the Caribbean, including two in El Seybo from a palm tree collapse and a heart attack. Thousands were stranded on rooftops in San Pedro de Macoris as the River Soco flooded.
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Jeanne
Dominican Republic
Bahamas
Samana
Caribbean
Juan Luis German
National Emergency Committee
el Seybo
Santo Domingo
San Pedro de Macoris
Soco
Sammy Sosa
Florida
Brian Jarvinen
Hephzibah Woman Dies In I-20 Wreck
A Hephzibah Georgia resident died after a 1990 white Toyota Camry ran off I-20 struck a culvert overturned several times and threw the driver from the vehicle. The 41 year old woman from the Cromwell Drive area was pronounced dead from head and neck injuries near the crash scene.
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Hephzibah, Ga
Cromwell Drive
Tim O’briant
S.C. Highway Patrol
United Way steak fundraiser draws local volunteers
Eldred Mitchell and family attend an Outback luncheon in Aiken County to support United Way. Proceeds from a $20 steak dinner fund the annual campaign aiding more than 30 agencies and 60 programs with celebrity waiters Tom Varallo and Bob Pedde volunteering to serve and entertain.
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Rob Novit
Eldred Mitchell
Jonathan
Outback
United Way
Mitchell
Connie
Aiken County
Project Care
Barnwell
Project Vision
Savannah River
Tom Varallo
Sean Gerrard
Varallo
Philadelphia
Bob Pedde
Westinghouse
Savannah River Company
Pedde
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