Twitter accounts of New York Post and news agency UPI hacked
NEW YORK — Some Twitter accounts of the New York Post and UPI, as well as the news agency's website, were briefly hacked Friday.
View ArticleSmall dog missing in Idaho car theft is safe
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Minnie the miniature pinscher isn't offering any details about her adventure, but the small dog that was inside a 71-year-old man's Cadillac when it was stolen is safely...
View Article'Unquiet Dead' is outstanding debut by Ausma Zehanat Khan
"The Unquiet Dead" (Minotaur Books), by Ausma Zehanat Khan
View ArticleReview: 'First Bad Man' is Miranda July's debut novel
"The First Bad Man" (Scribner), by Miranda July
View ArticleJury sides with 1980s pop star Rick Springfield in lawsuit
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A jury has ruled that 1980s pop star Rick Springfield didn't injure a woman at a New York State Fair concert a decade ago.
View ArticleReverend says community forum just a start
The Rev. Paul Bush promised the group of Aiken residents and local leaders Thursday that the community forum would be the first of many.
View ArticleJudge hears Carter jury exemptions
A judge heard jury duty exemptions from potential jurors in the Stephon Carter murder case Friday.
View ArticleEnglish students use art to depict novels with oppressive themes
Savannah Ditty recently drove around North Augusta and Augusta taking scores of photographs of surveillance cameras for an Advanced Placement English project.
View ArticleHonduras Agape to hold cooking and cornhole competition
A little friendly competition never hurt anyone, and this one in particular will touch the lives of individuals who are hundreds of miles away.
View ArticleNew Aiken Regional CEO believes in servant leadership
The sign outside Vance Reynolds' door at Aiken Regional Medical Centers says CEO, but Reynolds is not one to sit behind a big desk and bark orders.
View ArticleTHIS AND THAT: Passing of neighbors rekindles childhood memories
Fifty-four years ago our family moved into a new home for us on Canterbury Court not far from Banks Mill Road.
View ArticleLocal professor releases new book on Lowcountry voodoo
Call it magic, fate or mere coincidence, but the whispers of voodoo practicing never seem to leave professor Dr. Paul J. Leslie alone for too long.
View ArticleMLK's son: Ownership of Bible, Nobel prize is only issue
ATLANTA — One of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s sons declined to say Tuesday whether his father's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and traveling Bible would be sold if a judge rules they...
View ArticleAnnual MLK walk set for Monday in Newberry
NEWBERRY — In an act of remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., the community will attend a march followed by a program at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Monday.
View ArticleColumn: Obama: Charlie who?
On Sunday, at the great Paris rally, the whole world was Charlie. By Tuesday, the veneer of solidarity was exposed as tissue thin. It began dissolving as soon as the real, remaining Charlie Hebdo put...
View ArticleEditorial: Abandoning roads a misguided approach
The hands of local governments shouldn't be tied up even more.
View ArticleUSCA students named to president's list
The following students at USC Aiken were named to the president's list for the 2014 fall semester: Derald N. Adams, Laurel E. Adams, Brittany C. Baer, Adam C. Batton, Daniel P. Berry, Samantha L....
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