Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:17 AM   

NEW YORK -- Giants' quarterback Eli Manning says he's looking forward to getting his latest Super Bowl ring Wednesday. The Super Bowl champs are being presented with the ring Wednesday evening in Manhattan at Tiffany & Co. Manning, who won hi ...

JOHN HEILPRIN   Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:14 AM   

GENEVA -- A quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood. The World Health Organization's tally of the latest global health statistics for the first time inclu ...

By TRACIE CONE   Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:11 AM   

FRESNO, Calif. -- Just in time for spring snowmelt: a webcam pointed at one of Yosemite National Park's main attractions, the soaring 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls. The HD camera went live on North America's tallest fall Monday, allowing anyone with com ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:07 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- George W. Bush is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney. The former president offered a four-word endorsement of Romney as the doors of his elevator were closing after a speech Tuesday in Washington. B ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 11:04 AM   

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- John Lennon's killer has been transferred to another maximum-security state prison in western New York after spending more than 30 years in Attica Correctional Facility. The Buffalo News reports (http://bit.ly/MhSqLT ) that 57-year ...

By CARLA K. JOHNSON   Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:55 AM   

CHICAGO -- Police are urging a newlywed suburban Chicago man wanted in the stabbing death of his wife to turn himself in as 32 law enforcement agencies and the FBI hunt for him. Thirty-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez is accused of first-degree murder in t ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:55 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to a Pennsylvania Army specialist killed in combat in 1970 while serving as a rifleman in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The White House says Spec. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will ...

By RICK CALLAHAN   Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:49 AM   

INDIANAPOLIS -- Tornadoes battered their school and homes, and spring break was spent cleaning up. Henryville has only begun to rebuild, but for one night, its high school students will get to put aside their worries for a private show by one of coun ...

By ANDREW TAYLOR   Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:48 AM   

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Government leaders past and present gathered in Washington to do what they do best about the nation's deficit woes: talk. At an annual "fiscal summit" Tuesday in a capital city that seems almost comically unable to function, muc ...

By JACK DeVINE   Columnist   5/16/2012 10:42 AM   

Our collective attention span seems to be all over the map these days, flitting from issue to issue and rarely landing on the really important stuff. Last week, the buzz was all about gay marriage. Before that it was a student loan crisis and a suppo ...

By David Stinson   President, Board of Directors of the Community Medical Clinic of Aiken County   5/16/2012 10:39 AM   

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Community Medical Clinic of Aiken County (formerly known as the "Free Clinic"), I wish to thank everyone who made our April 19 fundraising event a big success. "Dinner With Friends" now will be an annual eve ...

The family of Jim Scott   Aiken   5/16/2012 10:39 AM   

To the ICU staff at Aiken Regional Medical Centers: Our family wishes to thank you for your support and kindness during the rough time in which our father and husband, Jim Scott, was in your care. You helped us to find peace, knowing that he was bein ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:39 AM   

COLUMBIA -- A bridge in Columbia has been closed after heavy rain caused a barge holding a construction crane to shift, threatening the structure. Authorities said the bridge that carries U.S. Highway 176 over the Broad River was shut down Tuesday ev ...

By TOM MCDONNELL   Aiken   5/16/2012 10:39 AM   

In response to another liberal socialist article written by Lester Welsh on May 5 regarding organic farms, the inference in his piece is that honest, hardworking people should not have the option of buying organically grown fruits and vegetables. His ...

AIKEN STANDARD     5/16/2012 10:39 AM   

It's obvious from the applause Aiken City Council received Monday night that many local residents are in favor of the new concept for the South Park Shopping Center, where Fresh Market will be the anchor store. Council unanimously passed the concept ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:35 AM   

CHARLOTTE -- An illegal immigrant from South Carolina that the government wants to deport will get a federal court hearing in his case. A federal judge in Charlotte, N.C., agreed on Tuesday that 27-year-old Gabino Sanchez of Ridgeland may return t ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:35 AM   

PAWLEYS ISLAND -- Authorities say a man has survived after being struck by lightning in Pawleys Island. Midway Fire Rescue spokesman Bob Beebe says the man was working outside Tuesday afternoon when a bolt of lightning hit a tree, then jumped to hi ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:23 AM   

SPARTANBURG -- Amazon says it is hiring hundreds of employees for its open warehouse in West Columbia and its planned facility in Spartanburg. The Internet retail giant said Wednesday it is accepting applications through a new website at www.WorkAt ...

  Associated Press   5/16/2012 10:23 AM   

BLUFFTON -- The 250-pound mascot of the Bluffton High football team has been swiped and it apparently took determined thieves to do so. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports (http://bit.ly/K3SKcg ) the bobcat statue was taken last week from the ...

STAFF REPORTS     5/16/2012 10:14 AM   

Two people have been arrested and charged following a bust of a methamphetamine lab made by the Aiken County Sheriff's office. Following a tip officers received on Sunday of possible meth activity at 241 Wexford Mills Drive in Wagener, investigators ...