Three Republican state senators in South Carolina who filibustered an abortion ban in the state have lost in their primary elections this month. Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson lost to three male candidates and were among a bipartisan group of five women state senators who filibustered a near-total abortion ban. They were nicknamed […]
May 24—You may notice a new byline in the Aiken Standard this summer. That belongs to Win Hammond, a current University of South Carolina student pursuing a master’s degree. Hammond was one of two student journalists in the state who are named Foundation Interns by the South Carolina Press Association. He will spend his summer […]
Glenn Daeward Boyd, 35, allegedly posed as a woman, sent a naked photo to a man and then claimed to be only 15 and threatened to expose the man as a pedophile The first time the 35-year-old man allegedly reached out on a dating website to another man in Michigan over the summer, he introduced […]
A federal jury on Friday found a South Carolina man guilty of fatally shooting a Black transgender woman nearly five years ago because of her gender identity. Daqua Lameek Ritter, 26, was convicted of a hate crime for the murder of Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe in the nation’s first-ever federal hate crime trial based on […]
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — On the eve of the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump touted his record with Black voters and vowed to “fight for the Black community like you’ve never had anyone fight for you before.” “This is Joe Biden’s worst nightmare, a room of hundreds of proud Black Republicans,” Trump said during a […]
The nation’s first hate crime trial for a gender-based murder began Tuesday in Columbia. Dime Doe, a transgender woman, was found dead in her car off a country road in Allendale, South Carolina, around 6 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2019. She had been shot three times in the head from close range. Just hours earlier, […]
Feb. 14 (UPI) — A stretch of highway in South Carolina was closed for 10 hours when a truck overturned, caught fire and released more than 35 wandering cows. The South Carolina Highway Patrol said the truck ran off Interstate 95 in Colleton County and overturned between Exit 53 and Exit 57. Colleton County Fire […]
Convicted murderer Richard “Alex” Murdaugh will not get a new murder trial after a hearing Monday on jury tampering allegations against a public official. Murdaugh, convicted on March 2 for the 2021 murders of his wife and son, was granted a hearing Monday in the state capital based on allegations of jury tampering involving Colleton […]
Jan. 8—Radioactive Pinball Arcade, Aiken’s most recent beacon of downtown entertainment, hosted competitive players from across the state and beyond for its inaugural pinball tournament on Sunday. The arcade had its grand opening Aug. 26. The establishment boasts 53 pieces of pinball equipment, making it the “largest selection of pinball machines publicly available in South […]
A South Carolina woman, who’d given emotional interviews about stumbling into the gruesome murder scene of four loved ones, was arrested and ordered held without bail this weekend in connection with that 2015 quadruple slaying, officials said. Amy Vilardi and her husband, Rosmore “Ross” Vilardi, are both accused of killing Cathy Scott, 60; Mike Scott, […]