By JEREMY TIMMERMAN   Staff writer   5/26/2012 12:14 AM   

A bill is moving through the state legislature that would allow home-school students to participate on groups and teams at public schools. There's a glaring hole in this plan. There is great potential for fraudulent addresses from home-schooled athle ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/26/2012 12:14 AM   

Everybody makes mistakes. High school football players are certainly no exception to that universal truth. It was Spencer Newman's ability to learn from his mistakes that allowed the former Aiken High School linebacker to sign a letter of intent to ...

By CAM HUFFMAN   Sports editor   5/26/2012 12:14 AM   

Brandon Moseley doesn't know exactly what he'll be doing at Charleston Southern University next year. He's undecided on a major, and he could play any number of positions on the Buccaneer football team. But the one thing he knows for sure is that he' ...

By NOAH FEIT   Staff writer   5/26/2012 12:14 AM   

PELION -- It's a long way from Wagener to Chicago. But the 800-plus miles between them doesn't measure the length of the journey being taken by Dammion Pough. After graduating next week, the Wagener-Salley High School senior will prepare to make tha ...

Clemson sports information     5/26/2012 12:14 AM   

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Jon McGibbon lined a three-run walkoff homer over the wall in right-center in the ninth inning to lift Clemson to a 9-7 victory over No. 1 Florida State in the ACC Tournament in front of 3,282 fans at NewBridge Bank Park on Friday ...

By SEANNA ADCOX   Associated Press   5/26/2012 12:31 AM   

COLUMBIA -- Gov. Nikki Haley personally accused the leader of the South Carolina House of meddling in an ethics investigation of her, a day after her staff made the same charges. He fired back by calling it an untruthful distraction, stopping just sh ...

By CHRIS WALSH   Staff writer   5/25/2012 8:04 PM   

One of the world's most famous pianists and composers, Yanni, will be making a one-night-only stop in Augusta at the Bell Auditorium on June 1. The award winning, critically acclaimed musician has performed in front of more than 20 million people thr ...

By ROB NOVIT   Senior writer   5/25/2012 9:56 PM   

The Automotive Technology team felt pretty good going into the championship finals of the Aiken County Career and Technology Centers's annual car-racing competition on Friday. A total of 12 teams - all of them composed of students from specific care ...

By BEN BAUGH   Staff writer   5/25/2012 9:22 PM   

Diavoli Rossi was on a mission Friday afternoon at Whitney Field and never lost their focus. They found themselves in a must win situation against Duck Hill Farm/Casa Azul in the Aiken Polo Club's USPA Congressional 8 goal tournament having to win by ...

By CHRIS WALSH   Staff writer   5/25/2012 11:53 PM   

To do their part in honoring veterans for Memorial Day, a trio of members of the Pinelawn Cemetery Committee visited the grounds to place American flags on more than 100 tombstones of known veterans. "This is a patriotic thing to do," said Hallie Ho ...

By ANNA DOLIANITIS   Staff writer   5/25/2012 11:53 PM   

Aiken's annual Memorial Day Parade, organized by the James L. Hammons Marine Corps League Detachment 939, will take place this afternoon in downtown Aiken. The event, which has been sponsored by the local Marine Corps League for the past 15 years, w ...

By ROB NOVIT   Senior writer   5/25/2012 9:56 PM   

Once again, the Aiken Writing Project is seeking teachers from Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick and Allendale counties to participate in the annual Summer Institute at USC Aiken in July. Teachers who have attended the program become models for effective ...

By BEN BAUGH   Staff writer   5/25/2012 9:57 PM   

A cookout and fundraiser is being held today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Boots, Bridles and Britches, as a way of supporting our troops. Those attending will have an opportunity to watch live demonstrations on how to treat post-combat-related transi ...

    5/25/2012 9:50 PM   

These are the bookings recorded for the Doris C. Gravat Detention Center for May 24. 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 ...

By SEANNA ADCOX   Associated Press   5/25/2012 8:54 PM   

COLUMBIA -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and her husband earned $367,000 in her first year as the state's CEO, with $200,000 of that coming from a partial advance on her memoir, according to 2011 tax returns she allowed reporters to view Friday af ...

Submitted article     5/25/2012 9:25 PM   

Graniteville Specialty Fabrics, a recognized leader in the production of specialty coatings and coated fabrics, purchased two coating machines from Mascoe Systems Corp., the largest manufacturer of coating machines in the United States. As many as ...

    5/25/2012 8:43 PM   

Aiken Public Safety is asking for the public's assistance identifying a man photographed at an ATM in reference to reported fraudulent ATM transactions, which took place in early April. Anyone with information related to the identity of the subject ...

By ROB NOVIT   Senior writer   5/25/2012 9:12 PM   

Aiken native Dr. Mike Weaver will appear at the Smith-Hazel Recreation Center today at 2 p.m., seeking young people and adults to take a bus trip to New Orleans in July. Weaver, a 1982 Aiken High School graduate, is calling the trip the 2012 Teen Le ...

Submitted article     5/25/2012 9:12 PM   

The 2012-13 American Legion Auxiliary National Membership Workshop was held May 5-7 in Indianapolis, Ind. The keynote speaker was Lt. Col. Steve Russell (ret.), who served 21 years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer. During his command of the 1 ...

    5/25/2012 9:12 PM   

An Aiken man reported that he lost his wallet in Atlanta while he was at the airport earlier this month and recently learned that his identity was stolen and used to open a cable account in his name. The total amount for the bill is more than $275. ...