Aiken News

A sweet new sound fills the Aiken Mall as Turner Keyboards of Aiken opens. On Friday at 1 p.m., a new business will open its doors in the Aiken Mall, and the store's employees invite the community to join in their grand opening celebration.

Shots being fired on a gun range could be a reality for an East Aiken County community if a proposal to rezone the area passes.

H1N1 clinics have been scheduled in several Aiken County schools. About a week before each clinic permission forms will be sent home with students.

An Aiken woman is in jail thanks to a tipster, after public safety officials say the woman tried to run over an officer with her car.

Mary Whitt of Aiken practices a dying art to restore antique and vintage furniture to its original condition.

Impact Aiken volunteers spent their Saturday lending a helping hand to a local agency that lends a hand to Aiken's disabled population.

Though Hurricane Ida has weakened to a tropical storm, residents will still feel its effects over the next couple of days.

Local teens out-cooked the professionals to claim top honors at the recent Flavors of Fall chili cook-off. The award-winning recipe was created by Malcolm Toney and Preston Woodard, students in the Culinary Arts II program at Aiken High School.

A North Augusta man wanted for carjacking was pursued by police but escaped arrest Wednesday, despite crashing into the back of a North Augusta business during the chase, officials said.

A former South Carolina teacher has been sentenced to six years in prison for not telling his ex-wife he has HIV.

Aiken Prep Middle School teachers collaborated to bring Egypt to life in the classroom last month.

A former Aiken County Republican Party treasurer has written a letter admitting she paid for unsolicited automatic phone calls in South Carolina legislative races.

Five teenagers have been linked to a number of recent vandalisms in the City of Aiken, including spray painting a dozen or more profanities at South Aiken High School last month during a teacher furlough day.

As details continue to emerge about the four men accused of holding up the York Street Burger King over the weekend, it appears that some, if not all, of the suspects may have been in the middle of a crime spree across the Midlands that ended in the City of Aiken on Saturday.

For More Information Contact: PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE Adrienne Fairwell 803-898-5287 fairwea@sctax.org Aiken, SC An Aiken County resident was jailed today following her arrest for state tax evasion charges.

Andrea Cummings, a fourth-grade teacher at East Aiken Elementary School, is going to take her kids to the Morris Museum of Art and has several activities planned with the trip.

Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 1:46 p.m. A man who authorities say committed suicide after the Saturday robbery of an Aiken fast food restaurant has been identified as a 24-year-old Columbia resident.

One robbery suspect is dead, another is at large, and two are behind bars following an armed robbery at an Aiken Burger King.

A soldier who grew up in South Carolina had to wait five hours to see her husband who was wounded in a shooting rampage on Fort Hood, even though she was on the base, her mother said.

South Aiken High School will host the first dual enrollment expo for all Aiken County juniors and seniors at the school auditorium Thursday at 6 p.m. The event, co-sponsored by Aiken Technical College and USC Aiken, will give students and parents a chance to learn more about the dual enrollment process and how it can enrich the educational process.