Aiken County News

The Aiken County Sheriff's Office is blaming arson for an early morning fire at Rocksville Baptist Church, 660 Pine Street, Warrenville.

Others, like Franscia Wade saw it coming towards their homeright before they were evacuated.

A third suspect is now in custody for robbing the First Citizens Bank & Trust on Atomic Road.

A Jackson bank robbery suspect has died after a shootout with police, and two other suspects are in custody.

Investigators say one bank robbery suspect has been shot and another is still on the loose, in Jackson, SC.

Early this afternoon, the remaining two suspects involved in last week's Graniteville Security Federal Bank robbery turned themselves in to Aiken County Sheriff's Office investigators.

A North Augusta man and a juvenile arrested by Aiken public safety officials in connection to a Saturday armed robbery now also face charges in a separate Friday incident.

A fiery accident this morning in North Augusta kills a 35-year-old man. Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton says Gregory A. Maree died in a single car crash on Highway 1, just past East Buena Vista Road.

An Aiken County jury finds 28-year-old Joshua Forrest guilty of a 2005 murder and he's sentenced for life in prison without the chance of parole.

Aiken County authorities are investigating an armed robbery of a North Augusta gas station that occurred last night.

A man who held police at bay for more than three hours Friday morning apparently killed himself after authorities fired tear gas into the Bath house he was inside.

AIKEN a ' A South Carolina building that was once an industrial training school for children of former slaves has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Aiken County investigators say Security Federal Bank was robbed Thursday afternoon.

A Jackson man is in custody after a standoff with police that lasted for several hours.

An Aiken County murder suspect, who walked away from an Augusta hospital only to return a few days later, is in jail.

A 52-year-old Trenton man accused of stealing cash and cigarettes during a North Augusta armed robbery last April has been jailed, officials said.

An elderly Aiken county man arrested and tried for assault and battery against two two teenage girls won't spend time in jail.

Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton says a 54-year-old Allendale woman was killed in a crash in Aiken County.

A gunman reportedly forced a convenience store clerk to the floor in Aiken late Thursday and hid while several others customers made purchases, and then told her he would kill her if she let on he was there, according to reports.

The cause of last Wednesday's early morning Graniteville fire has been discovered and is a direct result of careless behavior.