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11 hours ago | postandcourier.com | Dede Biles

LANGLEY — Before dawn May 12, when a tornado roared through this unincorporated community in southeastern Aiken County and areas nearby, the loud noise it made woke up Fire Chief Darryl Ryals. He was sleeping in the Langley Fire Department’s headquarters on Augusta Road, which also is known as S.C. 421. “I had never heard anything like it,” said Ryals during a telephone interview May 13. “It sounded like a freight train coming through.

1 day ago | postandcourier.com | Dede Biles

Aiken Electric Cooperative’s CEO, who has described the damage caused by Helene as unprecedented, provided some statistics about the impact to the Rotary Club of Aiken on May 12 at Newberry Hall. The havoc wreaked was far greater than the destruction caused by Winter Storm Pax, which covered the area with ice in 2014, according to Gary Stooksbury. Helene made landfall last September in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane.

1 day ago | postandcourier.com | Andrew Miller

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1 day ago | postandcourier.com | Hongyu Liu |Marilyn W. Thompson

Free-ranging monkeys may be causing long-term environmental damage on Morgan Island, an isolated barrier island the state owns and has used for decades as a primate breeding ground, according to a new analysis. Fully evaluating any damage will be difficult because the public is barred from the property. Government agencies and private caretakers shield activities on the Beaufort County island, which supplies 500 monkeys per year for federal medical research.

1 day ago | postandcourier.com | Dede Biles

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