Family members of an 85-year-old woman who was killed in a car accident say they are willing to forgive the other driver, but they also want him to be held accountable. Yvonne Atwood was going to her husband’s gravesite when she was killed. Last November, she was driving north on 500 East when an SUV going east on 600 South ran the light and T-boned her car. “The car spun four and a half... 

An Aiken fugitive who, along with two other individuals, reportedly robbed a wheelchair-bound man at a local hotel last month has been arrested in Houston County, Ga. Few details were available on the man’s arrest, but Aiken Public Safety officials said they will extradite the 33-year-old man back from Georgia, where he was arrested Tuesday. Aiken Public Safety investigators said Sherone Nealous,... 

Its budget meltdown has California taking a look at legalizing marijuana as a means to revive its depleted treasury. But common sense, not economic need, should persuade Americans it’s past time for a sober look at our mad “reefer madness” laws. The Golden State legislator pushing the idea, Tom Ammiano of—plug in the appropriate joke—San Francisco, says licensing and taxing legal marijuana...