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Few details were ever released in the suspicious death of a Navy veteran from Aiken County in 1995, and it still remains a mystery.
Aiken County sheriff’s deputies were called to a home on Eula Helen Street in Glover­ville on April 2, 1995, after Paul Edward Griffin, 58, was found dead in his home. Police said a friend discovered the body on the living room couch after noticing that Griffin’s door was partially open.

Paine College officials said Sunday they are inviting the public to a community meeting to discuss the status of the Augusta school’s accreditation.
School President Samuel Sullivan will address questions at the forum that begins at 11 a.m. Monday in the Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel on the campus.
School officials met privately with students Sunday afternoon to provide details of the situation. Non-students and even some Paine alumni were told the meeting was for current enrollees only.

The two bodies found Friday morning after a house fire in Aiken County have been identified.
Chief Deputy Coroner Darryl Ables said Sunday that Norman Scott and his wife Sadie Scott, both 85, died of smoke inhalation.
The couple lived in the home at 72 Alex Johnson Drive east of Aiken. It was reported fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived about 7:20 a.m. Friday. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

 
JOLIET, Ill. — Martin Truex Jr. shot to the front after a late re-start and pulled away to give his small Furniture Row Racing team the lead in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup championship with a victory Sunday in the playoff opener at Chicagoland Speedway.
Chase Elliott appeared on his way to the victory until Michael McDowell’s spin brought a caution with five laps left.
Elliott and Truex came in to pit, with non-Chase drivers Ryan Blaney and Kasey Kahne and Chase contender Carl Edwards staying on the track.

 
ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor and the leaders of two other Southern states are lifting restrictions on the number of hours that truck drivers delivering fuel can work, hoping to prevent shortages after the shutdown of a pipeline that spilled at least 252,000 gallons of gasoline in rural Alabama.
Motorists in the Southeast and East could pay more for gasoline in coming days because of the shutdown. However, experts say any spike in service-station prices should only be temporary.

ATHENS, Ga. -- A naked sunbather sparked a manhunt Thursday in Oconee County.
An administrator at Oconee Middle School on Mars Hill Road called the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office about 12:40 p.m. to report a nude man was on a small field near the school’s soccer and ball fields.
When first seen, the man was lying facedown on a towel on the field which is not visible from the school, Chief Deputy Lee Weems said.
“When the guy realized he had been seen, he jumped up, put his clothes on and ran off,” Weems said.

 
MACON — Aquinas forced five turnovers and used a bruising ground game to defeat Mount de Sales 27-14 on Friday night.
Aquinas and Mount de Sales were tied at the half, despite the Fighting Irish running 35 plays to only 15 for Mount de Sales. Aquinas was able to get turnovers when needed in the second half to secure the win. Aquinas ran for 361 yards in the game.
Junior running back Joseph Douglas was the workhorse for Aquinas, carrying the ball 29 times for 247 yards and two touchdowns.

 
 
 
 
A Warren County woman died and others were injured after a traffic accident Friday.
 
Killed was 46-year-old Catherine Hall, of Warrenton, said Deputy Coroner Sandy Yelton.
 
Hall was a backseat passenger in a Ford Expedition that wrecked after its driver, later identified as Angela Brown, apparently lost control when passing another vehicle on Georgia Highway 12. Yelton said the call came in to Warren County 911 at 6:09 p.m.
 

 
A Sandersville man was killed in Glascock County Friday afternoon when his pickup truck left the road and crashed into a wooded area off the 8000 block of Sand Hill Road.

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Paine College said Saturday night that it will file a federal lawsuit within 48 hours seeking to restore its accreditation, hours after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges revealed that its appeals committee was supporting a June decision to end accreditation for the Augusta private school.
Paine said it will ask a federal judge to prevent the accreditation ruling until the conclusion of a lawsuit, and “is hopeful that the court will enter such an order in the next few days.”