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Approximately 6,000 appeals were filed in 2011 with the Assessor's Office, and the chief complaint appears to be that many people don't believe the fair market value of their property increased in a down market. Sixty thousand properties out of the roughly 100,000 assessed increased in fair market value.
Following two deaths of local law enforcement officers in Aiken County, Aiken Standard began a series of columns and community articles to answer, "What can we do to make our community better?"
The Laurens Street Bridge collapsed a few inches after heavy rainfalls. The South Carolina Department of Transportation officially approved the use of Federal Emergency Relief funding to help cover the costs of the Laurens Street Bridge repairs.
The Hopelands Gardens Summer Concert Series is a series of concerts on Monday evenings during the summertime and is a free event to the public offered by Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Yucca Mountain was planned to be used as a repository storage facility for nuclear waste, until the project was opposed in 2010 and funding canceled in early 2011.
Complaints from across Aiken County came in on Tuesday and the days following the election ranging from long wait times to wrong ballots being filled out by voters in North Augusta.
COLUMBIA — Ballots and voting machines in a contested South Carolina legislative race will be guarded by state police until a hearing can be held next week on alleged voting irregularities in Richland County, a judge ordered Thursday.
NEW YORK — For years, foes of same-sex marriage had a potent talking point: They’d won every time the issue went to a popular vote. That winning streak has now been shattered in a multi-state electoral sweep by gay marriage supporters – a historic tipping...
WASHINGTON — The election laid bare a dual — and dueling — nation, politically speaking, jaggedly split down the middle on the presidency and torn over much else. It seems you can please only half of the people nearly all of the time.
WASHINGTON — One day after his surprisingly comfortable re-election, a triumphant President Barack Obama headed back to the White House and divided government on Wednesday with little time left for a compromise with Republicans to avert spending cuts...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama faces a new urgent task now that he has a second term, working with a status-quo Congress to address an impending financial crisis that economists say could send the country back into recession.
LONDON — He won, and the word “phew” trended worldwide on Twitter. Despite a hard-fought campaign in the United States, there was never any contest overseas.
By SEANNA ADCOX and SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 12:09 a.m.
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina voters picked Republican Mitt Romney for president, as expected, amid a record turnout in an election year marked with ballot chaos for local and legislative races.
Election numbers available before deadline showed Don Wells ahead of Jane Vaughters Tuesday night for the S.C. House District 81 seat which solely covers Aiken County.
