Man sought in Aiken credit union robbery

Aiken County authorities are still searching for a man who robbed the SC State Credit Union on Beaufort Street on Friday.

Authorities said the man might have been armed with a Tec-9 handgun and that he threatened to shoot both tellers.

Anyone with information on the robber can call the Aiken County Sheriff's Office at (803) 648-6811.

Man arrested after 2 children get diseases

Authorities arrested a man and accused him of infecting two young children with sexually transmitted diseases.

James Daniel Cousart, 36, of the 2000 block of Plantation Road, was charged with two counts of child molestation and one count of aggravated child molestation Monday afternoon, according to a Richmond County jail committal.

A sheriff's report says Mr. Cousart gave one of the children gonorrhea and the other chlamydia. The report said the incidents happened between 2004 and this year.

Speed contributed to fatal wreck in Appling

A Lincolnton, Ga., woman died Monday in a single-vehicle wreck in Appling.

Ida Ware Scott, 23, died when her car hit a tree on Ray Owens Road near Appling, Columbia County Deputy Coroner Harriett Garrison said. Ms. Scott was traveling north on Ray Owens Road just after 3 p.m. when she passed a vehicle at excessive speed, Mrs. Garrison said.

When her Nissan Maxima went off the road, Ms. Scott overcorrected, and the car veered across oncoming lanes and off the road, where it struck a tree, Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris said.

Ms. Scott was a seventh-grade special education teacher at Grovetown Middle School.

Young Republicans to hold tax day tea party

Augustans will join others across the country on Wednesday, tax day, with a tea party to protest taxes and government spending.

The Augusta Tax Day Tea Party will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Jessye Norman Amphitheater on Riverwalk Augusta.

Sponsored by the Columbia County Young Republicans, the event is meant as a protest of wasteful spending by congressional Democrats and the Obama administration, according to www.augustateaparty.org.