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Personal trainers work with people who have physical issues
By Ben Baugh An untoward situation while on vacation in the Bahamas was a life-altering experience for personal fitness trainer Kenny Ray. A body builder, Ray would blow out his knee, began losing a...
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Coffehouse retuns to playhouse at end of month
By Haley Hughes The Aiken Community Playhouse’s Black Box Coffeehouse returns Friday, Aug. 31, at 7 p.m. The signature event provides for a night of entertainment and refreshments in a low-lit,...
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Nationals beat Braves, stretch lead to seven games
Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Because the Washington Nationals have an innings limit for star right-hander Stephen Strasburg, there aren’t many starts left in his remarkable season. On Tuesday...
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Augusta Morning Show hosts to speak at GOP meeting
BY AMY BANTON The next Aiken Republican Club meeting will host two area talents that many may have heard on the local radio. WGAC Augusta’s Morning News hosts Harley Drew and News Director Mary Liz...
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TalkBack: Moderators, Akin, Chickens, Starving
Moderator choice To the person who wondered how the “liberal socialists” got picked to moderate the upcoming debates: It sounds like you wanted the right-wing fascists from FOX news. No thanks. Leaving...
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Brighter skies, warmer weather ahead this week
By STEPHANIE TURNER Normal summer weather will beam back through later this week, as temperatures rise. “It’s been below normal this week,” Tony Petrolito, National Weather Service forecaster, said....
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SRNS plans $3M expansion
By Haley Hughes Aiken County and Savannah River Nuclear Solutions have announced a corporately-funded expansion plan at the Center for Hydrogen Research, which will result in six new laboratories to...
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Local news in brief for Aug. 22
ADPS asking for help to find missing man The Aiken Department of Public Safety is asking for the public’s assistance in locating 52-year-old Wesley Jerome Quiller. Quiller was last seen leaving his...
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COLUMN: No better time than now to adopt a cat or kitten
By GARY WILLOUGHBY Our latest adoption special was born out of necessity. Every cat and kitten falls under the “Name Your Own Adoption Fee” for the rest of August. Our adoption fees for cats are...
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Missing Aiken man located
By STAFF REPORTS The Aiken Department of Public Safety has now located 52-year-old Wesley Jerome Quiller. The department asked for the public's help in locating him on Tuesday after he had last been...
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OTHER VIEWS: Ethics reformed needed, but doubtful it will happen
By the Island Packet of Hilton Head Some key lawmakers, the state attorney general and the S.C. Ethics Commission are working this summer on a plan to strengthen the state’s ethics law. But unless they...
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EDITORIAL: School technology improvements keep up with the future
By THE AIKEN STANDARD Not sure little Johnny really made the A on his spelling test he claimed he did - even though he conveniently lost the graded test? And does little Suzy really not have homework...
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Patent trial over iPhone technology wraps up
By PAUL ELIAS By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — A lawyer for Apple said Tuesday that Samsung was having a “crisis of design” after the launch of the iPhone, and executives with the...
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Aiken Democrats to host fundraiser
Staff reports The Aiken County Democratic Party will host a hot dog fundraiser at the Odell Weeks Activity Center pavilion Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Probate Judge Sue Roe, the Democratic...
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Aiken NAACP plans registration drive
Staff reports The Aiken Branch NAACP is sponsoring a voter education and registration drive at the Cumberland AME Church Fellowship Hall Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Richard Johnson, the NAACP’s...
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Misery in La. as Isaac flooding leaves power out
By CAIN BURDEAU and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN NEW ORLEANS — Isaac sloshed north into the central U.S. on Friday after flooding stretches of Louisiana and knocking out power, leaving entire water-logged...
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Quake off Philippines spurs small tsunami; 1 dead
By TERESA CEROJANO MANILA, Philippines — A 7.6-magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines late Friday, killing at least one person in a house collapse, knocking out power in...
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N.J. store worker fatally shoots 2 employees, self
By KATIE ZEZIMA OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — A New Jersey supermarket employee opened fire at the closed store early Friday as a dozen or more colleagues worked inside, killing two of them and himself, a...
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American Cancer Society kicks off third landmark study; seeking 200 Aiken...
By TEDDY KULMALA Gail Diggs is no stranger to cancer. Her mother died in 1988, during her third battle with cancer. A city councilwoman, Diggs later found out that she had melanoma, "a cancer that I...
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St. Mary students honor Neil Armstrong
By Rob Novit Carlos Peramo, an eighth-grader at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic School, is already an astronomy buff and has watched Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon on video many times. He was...
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