These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for June 3, 2016. Some of the people listed may not have actually spent time in jail if they posted bond and were released. Although those listed have been arrested and charged, that does not mean they have been found guilty. All bookings may be viewed online by visiting www.aikenstandard.com and clicking on the "Crime" tab.

Mose Columbus Henderson, 46 - simple possession of marijuana

Paul Jason Osborn, 40 - reckless driving

Robert Anthony Sideikas Jr., 49 - public drunk

Scott Edward Hallman, 30 - domestic violence third degree

Darryl Evan Johnson, 52 - disorderly conduct/gross intoxication

Nileron Brandon Guice, 32 - unlawful neglect of a child/helpless person by legal custodian

Karl William Knick, 31 - financial transaction card fraud value $500 or less in a six-month period

Kendra Latoya Kelley, 25 - uninsured motor vehicle fee violation first offense, leaving the scene of an accident bench warrant, shoplifting $1,000 or less

Jason Daniel Simmons, 40 - assault and battery third degree commitment

Brandon Robert Deas, 27 - shoplifting bench warrant, grand larceny value more than $2,000 but less than $10,000, filing a false police report (felony)

Sharika Chyenice Jackson, 21 - failure to pay child support, false information to police/fire, hold for Aiken Department of Public Safety

Christopher Cornelus Atkinson, 40 - shoplifting less than $2,000 first offense

Bruce Alan Johnson, 57 - fraudulent check or stop payment $500 or less first offense, driving without a license first offense bench warrant, hold for Aiken County Sheriff's Office

Tony Luther Hill, 48 - unlawful use of a telephone

Stephen Anthony Hicks, 28 - hold for Aiken County Sheriff's Office

William Clark, 43 - assault and battery third degree

According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office:

Deputies responded to Huber Clay Road in Warrenville after someone broke into a storage building on the landfill property last month.

An Aiken man reported Wednesday someone broke into his Seneca Avenue home and took his television.

An Aiken woman reported Tuesday someone shattered her car window on Edgefield Highway.

A North Augusta man reported Monday someone broke into his Victoria Drive property.

An Evans, Georgia, man reported Wednesday a Graniteville man threw a screwdriver at his car on Edgefield Road.

A North Augusta man reported Monday someone stole items from his car while it was parked on Chesnut Drive.

A North Augusta man reported Monday someone unlawfully entered an Audubon Circle property under construction.

A Langley business reported Wednesday an unknown female stole several items from a store on Old Depot Street.

An Aiken man reported Sunday someone removed a loaded pistol from his vehicle while it was parked on Old Barnwell Road.

A laundromat on Jefferson Davis Highway in Clearwater reported this week two white males were seen on security footage tampering with machines.

According to reports provided by the Aiken Department of Public Safety:

Police responded to Crosland Drive on Thursday in reference to a suspect pointing a firearm. After arriving on scene and meeting with the victim, an 18-year-old Aiken man, officers were told he had been receiving threats from someone on social media. The victim said he believed it was the same suspect that pointed the firearm at him.

Officers responded to a family disturbance at an address on Meadow Wood Place on Wednesday after a 37-year-old woman told police her 18-year-old daughter threatened her, took her suitcase and left the home after an argument. The woman said the two were arguing about her daughter's upcoming wedding and an invitation being sent to an estranged family member.

A 45-year-old Aiken woman reported Wednesday someone stole her son's bicycle from the front yard of her Dumbridge Road address.

A 29-year-old Aiken man reported larceny of a vehicle Tuesday, telling police his red pickup truck was stolen when he was visiting his girlfriend near Bradby Lane.

The seventh annual Gravatt Fishing Tournament will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, June 26, at Camp Gravatt, 1006 Camp Gravatt Road. This is a catch-and-release tournament. Those competing can fish from the bank or a canoe. The cost is $30 for a single-person shore fishing or bring-your-own canoe team, $40 for a two-person shore fishing team, $60 for a two-person Gravatt canoe team, or $90 for a two-person team with its own boat. The registration deadline is Saturday, June 18. Registration will be accepted at the Aiken County Visitors Center, 113 Laurens St. S.W., or online at www.campgravatt.org.

Aiken County Public Schools welcomed its newest high school graduates Thursday at three commencement ceremonies.

More than 400 students from Wagener-Salley, Silver Bluff and Midland Valley high schools moved their tassels from left to right and received their diplomas in front of family and friends who packed the stands at the USC Aiken Convocation Center.

Wagener-Salley High School

Dr. Sean Alford, who became the school district's chief administrator last summer, welcomed Wagener-Salley High's 53 graduating seniors for the first time as superintendent.

"I will always remember the class of 2016 as my first as superintendent here in Aiken County," he said. "Thank you for a great school year. You have taught me many things since July. Most of all, I've learned to say each night a very simple, but genuine prayer: 'Dear Lord, please keep our children safe.'"

"Congratulations once again," he continued. "Job well done, and we wish you all the very best."

Most of Wagener-Salley's seniors have been together for 13 years through kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school, and they have become a family, said Avery Snipes of Wagener, the class salutatorian who had the second highest overall average.

"I'm going to miss this group of kids right there you're looking at," he said before the graduation ceremony. "We're not like other schools that have a ton of kids. We're just a real tight-knit community. As far as bonding and coming together as a family as a whole, I wouldn't have missed it. I wouldn't have wanted to do anything else."

Snipes, who shared speaking duties with class valedictorian, Tialeishia Corley, also offered his classmates some advice to take with them as they enter the workforce, prepare for college in the fall or join the military:

- Follow your dreams

- Fulfill your life ambitions and never fall short of your goals

- Always surround yourself with good people.

"Finally, if you ever need a hand, remember your classmates. They're always here for you," said Snipes, who plans to attend Aiken Technical College in the fall and then transfer to USC Columbia to major in electrical engineering.

"There is a whole new world out there, classmates. There will certainly be challenges, but I know if there is any group that can make the best of it, it's the class or 2016 of Wagener-Salley High School."

Silver Bluff High School

While waiting for the start of Silver Bluff High's commencement ceremony, Jonathan Henderson was thinking about the future. He plans to attend The Citadel and is looking forward to a military career.

"I enjoy order in my life, and they are going to give me the order that I need to help me succeed," said Henderson, who was a Silver Bluff NJROTC executive officer. "I will be going into the Army, and I know I want to jump out of airplanes. There is something about jumping out of airplanes that intrigues me."

Another member of Silver Bluff's Class of 2016, Abby Williams, recently was honored as the Student of the Year by the Aiken County Career and Technology Center. She wants to be a nurse practitioner.

"While I was in the Career Center's health science program, I shadowed doctors and nurses, and I just loved it," said Williams, who will be furthering her education at USC Aiken. "I love helping people, and I want to help them holistically. As a nurse practitioner, I will be able to spend more personal time with people than I would if I was just a nurse working for a doctor."

There were 130 seniors in Silver Bluff's graduating class. MarCaysia Kitchings was the valedictorian, and Lydia Hicks was the salutatorian.

Kitchings urged her classmates to follow their dreams.

"Do what you think will make you happy," she said. "Make your own journey without any regrets."

Hicks talked about what it would be like after graduation.

"Starting on June 3, 2016, the world is a brand new place to us," she said. "We will now have to do our own laundry and cook our own ramen noodles when we inevitably go broke in college. We will make grown-up mistakes and not have our parents or teachers to fall back on. But at those times, I encourage you to look to God and to look to each other. In the words of our favorite childhood movie ("High School Musical"), we are all in this together."

Midland Valley High School

Myra Moseley, who teaches American government and social studies, has spent her entire career as an educator at Midland Valley High School.

But after 35 years of graduations and an estimated more than 10,000 students - many of them children of parents she taught earlier - in her classes, Mosely will hang up her graduation robe after Thursday and retire.

Moseley said she's both excited and sad watching her last class of students receive their diplomas.

"I'm excited because it's a new chapter in my life," she said. "I'm sad because a lot of these kids have touched my life. I hope I, too, have touched their lives and futures and made an impact on our global society. It's been very rewarding."

For her years of service, S.C. Rep. Chris Corley, R-Graniteville, presented Moseley a resolution from the S.C. House of Representatives.

"This is an expression of the House's gratitude for your 35 years of service to the students of Aiken County," said Corley, who had Mosely for history in the ninth grade. "Just know that as long as South Carolina shall maintain her sovereignty, a record of his resolution will kept in our archives for all to see."

Although she's graduated, Hannah McKenzie Redd, of Graniteville, won't be putting down her tuba from the Midland Valley Mustang band any time soon. She plans to attend USC Aiken to major in music education and minor in performance this fall.

"I will miss marching band the most," said Redd, who has been in the band since eighth grade. "Tuba players are dominated by males, but there are some girls out there, and they are pretty tough. A tuba weighs about 50 pounds."

Gavin Earl McElmurray, of Beech Island, said he will miss Redd and his other friends in marching band, too.

"I will miss seeing them every day and not being able to hang out with them," said Redd, who was in the band's color guard.

Redd will join the U.S. Air Force and leave for San Antonio, Texas, in late June for training. He will work in logistics and material management supply, working with vehicles and aircraft.

Redd said he plans to relax at home, get packed up and start getting more fit and ready for the Texas heat in the next month.

"I'm feeling nervous and a little sad because I'm leaving, but I'm a little bit happy and excited to get to the real world, too."

Dede Biles is a general assignment reporter for the Aiken Standard. She graduated from Concord High School in Concord, North Carolina, in 1974. The school's athletic teams are known as the "Spiders." Larry Wood covers education for the Aiken Standard and graduated from Aiken High in 1973. His class motto was, "Success is the key in '73."

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Last week's landfall of Tropical Storm Bonnie serves as a reminder that what may seem like a minor threat can easily morph into a dangerous or deadly disaster.

Officially known as hurricane season, the days between June 1 and Nov. 30 are prime for tropical storm and hurricane development in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Each year, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center issues its storm outlook for the season. It said this year would most likely be a near normal year. The predication center expects 10 to 16 named storms, including early year storms Alex and Bonnie. Of those, it says up to eight could become hurricanes and up to half of those eight could become major category three or higher storms.

Hurricanes are very large cyclone systems, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Blair Holloway. The storm's outer arms, or bands, can extend far inland before the storm's eye reaches the shore.

"The bands of a hurricane, or large tropical cyclone, can themselves maintain much of their strength before the eye reaches land," Holloway said.

"Once the center of the storm moves away from its energy source in the water and interacts with land, then they weaken rapidly."

Aiken is only about 110 miles from Edisto Beach. According to the National Hurricane Center website, the 10th largest hurricane on record is Hurricane Katrina at 415 miles in diameter. That means a hurricane of that size could easily have outstretched bands over the Aiken County area while still maintaining core strength over the Atlantic.

"The two primary things to be concerned with in inland areas are heavy rainfall and flooding, especially with a slow-moving system. Tornadoes are also a concern for inland locations as the storm can have individual thunderstorms embedded, some of which have produced many tornadoes well inland of the coast," Holloway said.

Summer beachgoers and travelers run the risk of having coastal vacations thwarted by wicked weather. Holloway said one of the best things travelers can do before they leave is to see what's happening in the tropics.

"They can visit the National Hurricane Center website, see if there are ongoing storms and get outlook information for the next several days," he said.

Whether the weather creates an emergency or another man-made event causes a disaster, the University of South Carolina Aiken is prepared to lend a hand. According to Len Engel, Environmental Health and Safety Manager for USCA, the university has served as an emergency operations hub in the past.

"The parking lot was used for triage and decontamination for several days after the Graniteville train accident, and we also used the gym in the Student Activities Center," Engel said.

According to Engel, the university's facilities have not needed to be used outside of the train accident, but plans and agreements are in place should the need arise.

He said two other gyms, one in the Business and Education building and the other in the Convocation Center, are possible locations for emergency shelters.

Engel said USCA has a memorandum of understanding with the Aiken County Emergency Management Division, and the incident commander from county operations would make the determination as to which facility would be chosen, based on the nature of the situation. He also said the university has agreements with the University of South Carolina and its regional campuses to facilitate housing and other needs for those students in case of emergencies at any of those locations.

Engel said the university is happy with the agreement it has with Aiken County Emergency Management, as it allows them to serve the county as well as the students.

Thomas Gardiner is the SRS beat reporter for the Aiken Standard.

Young Life is a non-denominational Christian ministry that focuses on serving adolescents. The nonprofit, which is international in its scope, will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Aiken area with a banquet in November.

"We are at Aiken High School and South Aiken High School," said Cory Kovanda, the area director for Young Life in Aiken County. "We also have kids from South Aiken Baptist Christian School and Mead Hall Episcopal School that we are involved with."

Young Life's adult volunteers eat lunch with the students and also interact with them at school events such as football and basketball games.

"We think that all kids are going through something," Kovanda said. "We reach out to them and spend time with them. Our goal is to build relationships. We talk about life and find out how they are doing. We don't push any religion or any faith on anybody, but our hope is to be able to share the good news of Jesus with the kids if they want to hear it."

Weekly gatherings outside of school also are part of the Young Life program.

"On Monday night, we have our Young Life Club at the Fermata Club," Kovanda said. "It's a party with a purpose. We sing songs and play games, and we share a message at the end. Each week, we have anywhere from 100 to 170 kids there."

On Wednesday night, two smaller groups with about 30 teenagers apiece meet at the homes of Young Life participants. One group is for Aiken High students, and the other is for South Aiken High students.

"We don't do the Monday night Young Life Club during the summer, but the Wednesday night group meetings are pretty much a year-around thing," Kovanda said.

Some of the Young Life participants are at-risk teenagers from single-parent families with low incomes, but others have fathers and mothers who are wealthy.

"The beauty of Young Life is that we get to see kids from all walks of life," Kovanda said. "At our Monday night Young Life Club, there is a big mix of people that you might think would never be in the same room together."

In the future, Kovanda would like to expand Young Life's efforts to include other Aiken County high schools. He also wants to set up Young Life's WyldLife program for sixth, seventh and eighth graders at some of the local middle schools.

In addition, Kovanda plans to establish a Young Life Capernaum program for teenagers and young adults with disabilities in the Aiken area soon.

"Some places have separate Capernaum and separate Young Life groups, but our vision is to be inclusive," Kovanda said. "We want to give the Capernaum kids the opportunity to be with the regular Young Life kids and vice versa. I think it would be a win-win for both groups."

For more information about Young Life, call 803-646-4458, visit www.younglife.org or go to the Aiken County Young Life page on Facebook.

Dede Biles is a general assignment reporter for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since January 2013. A native of Concord, N.C, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Plans are coming together for an entry-level summer class for aspiring nurse aides, with a boost from Hope Center Trinity Academy.

The Graniteville facility, a branch of Christ Central, will play host to a state-approved course starting in July, with four weeks of classroom instruction followed by one week of clinical practice at Pepper Hill, an Aiken retirement home.

Successful students will have the chance to apply for certification as nursing assistants.

Leading the class will be North Augusta resident Barbara Seay, a registered nurse with a background including service as a flight nurse in the Air Force, medical missionary, coordinator of staff development at Trinity Mission Health and Rehab of Edgefield and 12 years at University Hospital, in Augusta.

Students in this summer's class should "have a heart for taking care of the elderly and, a lot of times, handicapped young people," she said. "It's not easy ... and they have to be motivated. They have to want to do this, and ... this is the beginning."

The class can represent an "open door" for some, in terms of advancing from being a certified nursing assistant to a licensed practicing nurse and a registered nurse, she said.

Students who succeed in certification can go on to work in a hospital, assisted-living facility or long-term care facility.

"The door is open, once they pass the state qualifying exam," Seay added.

Classroom sessions will be held 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and the clinical sessions will be Monday through Friday, from 6:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

"It's a very fast-paced class," Seay said. "You have to keep up."

Applications for prospective students are currently being accepted, and partial scholarships are available for those who qualify.

For more information, call 803-393-4575.

Bill Bengtson, a native of Florence, Alabama, has worked for Aiken Communications since 1996, providing pictures and stories for the Aiken Standard and The North Augusta Star.

Sunlight reflected off chrome hard hats and shovels as officials moved earth in a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, celebrating the expansion of the Anchor Health and Rehabilitation Clinic in Aiken.

Anchor Clinic is part of Orianna Health Systems, which recently changed its name from Covenant Dove.

CEO of Orianna Health Craig Robinson said, "We have a new name, new vision, and new plans. This innovation shows where we are headed."

Anchor Clinic Administrator Wanda Fowler highlighted some of the new amenities and innovations to be included in the expansion.

"We are treating the patients as though they are at a destination. The new wing will include an internet cafe and an dining menu with an ordering service so it feels like they're eating in a restaurant," she said.

Fowler also said the new 60 room wing would include a walking path and garden area, with 40 private rooms and 10 semiprivate.

According to its website, Anchor provides a wide range of skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for both short stay recovery, as well as ongoing supportive services for individuals requiring long-term care. One of their long-term residents, 93-year-old Dorris Woodward, addressed the crowd at the event.

"They treat me like family here at Anchor and I love every one of them," she said.

The 5-year resident also said she was excited for the amenities that will come with the expansion.

Another guest speaker at the event, Aiken Mayer Rick Osbon, said, "If a facility is expanding, you know they're doing something right."

Osbon has a personal connection to the facility, his father received rehabilitative care at the facility after an operation.

Fowler said, "This is a new milestone in a journey to serve the community. This is a dream come true and will be a blessing to the Aiken community."

Thomas Gardiner is the SRS beat reporter for the Aiken Standard.

Events to attend on Friday, June 3, 2016:

- The City of Aiken offers a historic tour on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. The tour leaves from the Aiken Visitors Center and Train Museum, 406 Park Ave. S.E., and costs $15. Reservations are recommended. For more information or to make a reservation, call 803-644-1907.

- Yesterday's Sounds will perform from 7 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays at the Aiken DAV, 2194 Columbia Highway N. Admission is $7. For more information, call Dana Watkins at 803-292-3680 or Furman Redd at 706-825-8776.

- The Peachtree 23 Yard Sale, a 44-mile long yard sale from Batesburg-Leesville to Modoc along Highway 23, will be held Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4. For more information, call Charlotte Cheatham at the Edgefield Town Hall, 803-637-4014.

- The Be an ACTS Fan event will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 3 and 4 at Lowe's, 2470 Whiskey Road. Community members can purchase a fan for $17 and donate it to ACTS. The fans will be given to families in need in the Aiken area. For more information, email info@actsofaiken.org.

- Lo Down Brown will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, at The Red Pepper, 752 Silver Bluff Road.

Skies in Aiken County are expected to stay partly cloudy, with a high 93 degrees and a low 70 degrees.

A 20 percent chance of rain is also in Aiken County's forecast.

The weekend is as follows:

Saturday: High 93, low 71, partly cloudy, 20 percent chance of rain.

Sunday: High 86, low 68, scattered thunderstorms, 60 percent chance of rain.

South Carolina Black Hawk unit deploys for 1 year in Kuwait

MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE - The South Carolina Army National Guard is bidding farewell to 60 soldiers in a Black Hawk helicopter unit deploying for a year to Kuwait.

Friday's ceremony is at 11 a.m. at McEntire Joint National Guard Base near Eastover, South Carolina, where Company A of the 1-111st General Support Aviation Battalion is based.

The unit is deploying with 10 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The unit last deployed on a yearlong mission to Kosovo in 2012.

South Carolina Guard commander Maj. Gen. Robert Livingston Jr. says the unit is part of Operation Spartan Shield, which provides support to U.S. and allied military units in the Persian Gulf region. He said in a statement the Guard is grateful to those deploying and to their families for their support.

Lab school on USC campus holds its 50th class reunion

COLUMBIA - Students from a laboratory school located on the University of South Carolina's campus are celebrating a 50th reunion of its graduating class of 1966.

The University High School operated from 1932 until 1966 and was run by the Columbia City Schools. Its teaching staff was composed of university faculty, but students from the School of Education also taught classes in order to gain teaching experience.

University spokesman John Brunelli says class members are touring Wardlaw College on Friday. The school was located in the building across from the Horseshoe.

The school's students attended grades 7 to 12 and the student body was all-white. The school was closed after the university was integrated and Columbia City Schools remained segregated.

Coast Guard: Oil in Beaufort hospital, marina spills similar

BEAUFORT - The U.S. Coast Guard says oil found in the water at the Lady's Island Marina in Beaufort is similar to the type of oil that recently leaked from Beaufort Memorial Hospital into the Beaufort River.

Chief Warrant Officer Dan Ferrell tells The Island Packet of Hilton Head (http://bit.ly/1sRKx7B) that the oil that stained the hulls of boats and blackened the reeds on Factory Creek's banks has similar characteristics to the hospital's Sunday spill, but authorities are currently investigating them as separate incidents.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve Lehman says a sample from the marina will be studied in order to help determine the source of the spill.

Ferrell says the Coast Guard hasn't received reports of wildlife being affected by the 25 to 50 gallons of oil found in the marina.

MIAMI - Tropical Depression Bonnie is moving away from the U.S. East Coast on Friday, a day after re-forming into a tropical system.

Bonnie's maximum sustained winds Friday morning are near 35 mph (55 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says strengthening is possible later in the day and Bonnie could again become a tropical storm.

But weakening is expected to begin by Friday night.

The depression is centered about 130 miles (210 kilometers) east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and is moving east-northeast near 8 mph (13 kph).

Forecasters say dangerous surf conditions are still possible along parts of the North Carolina coast, including the Outer Banks, through Friday.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Georgia Republicans will hear from former Texas governor Rick Perry and the state's U.S. senators as the party gathers for its annual convention.

Johnny Isakson, who's up for re-election in November, and David Perdue are scheduled to speak this weekend in Augusta. Perry is headlining a sold-out dinner on Friday.

Party stalwarts also will select 31 additional delegates to represent the state at the July national convention in Cleveland.

April's congressional district conventions had plenty of drama to select 42 other delegates. Supporters of then-presidential candidate Ted Cruz successfully won a majority of the congressional district slots for the Republican National Convention. Backers of Donald Trump, who won Georgia's March GOP primary, weren't pleased.

But the potential for similar strife this weekend dipped when Trump became the presumptive presidential nominee.

WASHINGTON - U.S. employers drastically slowed their hiring in May, adding just 38,000, the fewest in more than 5 years and a sign of concern after the economy barely grew in the first three months of the year.

At the same time, the unemployment rate tumbled to 4.7 percent from 5 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, its lowest point since November 2007. The rate fell for a problematic reason: Nearly a half-million jobless Americans stopped looking for work and so were no longer officially counted as unemployed.

The much-weaker-than-expected jobs report will raise doubts that the Federal Reserve will increase the short-term interest rate it controls at its next meeting in mid-June or perhaps even at its subsequent meeting in late July. Many analysts had expected an increase by July.

"The shockingly low payrolls gain in May provides further evidence that the economy is showing clear signs of slowing," said Laura Rosner, an economist at BNP Paribas.

It is also likely to roil the presidential race, as the expected GOP nominee Donald Trump called it a "terrible jobs report" and a "bombshell" on Twitter. The figure comes just days after President Obama touted his economic record in Elkhart, Indiana.

Hiring in March and April was also revised lower, with job gains now just 123,000 in April, down from an initial estimate of 160,000. March was downgraded to 186,000 from 208,000.

Job gains have now averaged just 116,000 in the past three months, down sharply from an average of 230,000 in the 12 months ending in April.

The total was lowered by the Verizon workers' strike, which depressed hiring in the telecom sector by 34,000.

Still, job losses were widespread: Manufacturers cut 10,000 positions, while construction firms cut 15,000. Temporary help firms shed 21,000 jobs. Retailers, hotels and restaurants added jobs, but at a slower pace than recent months.

The proportion of adults working or looking for work dropped to 62.6 percent, near four-decade lows. Millions of Americans had come back into the labor market over the fall and winter, but that trend has partially reversed in April and May.

The government has estimated that the economy grew at just a 0.8 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter.

Yet Friday's dismal jobs report was a surprise in part because most recent economic reports have been encouraging: Consumer spending surged in April. Americans ramped up purchases of autos and other big-ticket items, like appliances.

Home sales and construction have also increased. Sales of new homes reached an eight-year high in April.

Even manufacturing, which has suffered from weak growth overseas and a strong dollar that has depressed exports, is showing signs of stabilizing. Factory activity expanded in May for a third straight month, according to a survey of purchasing managers.

Most economists expect growth will rebound in the April-June quarter to about a 2.5 percent annual pace.

In December, after months of economic improvement, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate after pegging it near zero for seven years. In March, officials indicated that they expected just two additional increases this year.

Chair Janet Yellen has long made it clear that she studies a "dashboard" of job market data to help assess the economy's health, rather than a single number such as hiring or unemployment.

Fed officials may not keep investors guessing for long: Yellen will speak Monday in a closely watched address that may show how she has interpreted Friday's report. And Lael Brainard, a Fed official who is a longtime skeptic of raising rates, will speak later Friday.

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Andrew Clinton Barton

Matthew Allen Blair

Alyssa Ann Jones

Drequan Raymond Lanham

Kyle Ryan Little

Jerrod Michael Logeais

Austin Drew Martin

Joseph Douglas Meek

Kaleb Brian Newman

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Jarrett Vaughn Elliott

Tyler Jordan Evans

Dezsmond KeiShawn Foust

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Building & Grounds Maintenance...Instructor Bobbie Jo Gregory

Jakera Nytrice Ealey

Porsha Shantell Gomillion

Jerry Lee Simpkins

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Computer Aided Drafting & Design...Instructor Bob Molkenthin

Brandon Michael Able

Cortez De'shun Bennett

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Roger Labra

Denzel Winbush Makin

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Lynsey Tira Day

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Nate Robert Dorsch

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Samantha Marie McCarty

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William Joseph Randall

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Christopher Brooks Bryan

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Jeramie Lloyd Cody

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Fashion Design

Instructor Jean Pesce

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Health Science Technology...Instructor Teresa Hayden

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Katelynn Leigh Elena Henderson

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Kevin Perry

Riley Allen Stebbins

Dante' Douglas Tyler

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Lanndyn Bailee Greene

Ashley Michelle James

Rita Celine Kendrick

Sanquanetta Donisha Schoultz

Halle Alexandria Sparks

Avis Amya Williams

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Networking/Cyber Security...Instructor Amy Marchant

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Welding Technology...Instructor Kevin Rawlins

Jeremiah Jordan Burckhalter

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Ricky Lee Galloway

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Seth Kegan Nichols

Andrew Nash Parsons

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GREENVILLE - Greenville County sheriff's deputies are investigating after a man was shot to death.

Master Deputy Drew Pinciaro says deputies were called about gunshots shortly after 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Coroner Parks Evans says the man was 34-year-old David Ryan Galloway of Greenville. Evans says the death appears to be a homicide.

An autopsy was planned Friday.

Pinciaro says no other details were immediately available.

No arrests have been reported.

The Aiken Department of Public Safety is investigating a house fire that occurred Friday morning on York Street.

Firefighters were called to the blaze around 3:40 a.m. Friday at the abandoned home, said Lt. Karl Odenthal with the Aiken Department of Public Saftey.

"The house was fully-involved by the time we got there," Odenthal said. "We are still investigating, but at this point, we really don't know what happened."

The second floor of the structure ended up collapsing, but no one was injured as the house was determined to be vacant, Odenthal said.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire, but the home has been destroyed.

Investigators are still determining whether the structure fire will be considered "suspicious," Odenthal said.

Tripp Girardeau is the crime and courts reporter with the Aiken Standard.