According to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton, the body of a 54-year-old white male was discovered near Warrenville, SC on Friday morning. UPDATE: Autopsy has revealed that Phillip Pennington died of natural causes. An enlarged heart and atherosclerosis were cited as the primary causes. Toxicology results will be available in about two weeks.

A former Yale University lab technician charged with murdering a graduate student last month is expected to plead not guilty.

According to Lt. Scott Peebles, Tuesday morning, at about 8:44 a.m., the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded to a deceased person call on the 1900 block of Kissingbower Road. Upon arrival, officers located the body of 56-year-old Henry Lee Smith deceased in the backyard of the residence.

We have the latest on the Yale University murder investigation. A lab technician made his first court appearance Thursday on the charge he murdered Yale graduate student Annie Le. Raymond Clark III was a co-worker of Le, whose body was found Sunday stuffed behind a wall in the building where they both worked. It was supposed to be her wedding day. Officials revealed Wednesday that Le had been choked to death. ABC News’ Aaron Katersky is in New Haven, Connecticut with more.

Connecticut’s state medical examiner says a Yale University grad student died of traumatic asphyxiation.

A Connecticut official says New Haven police have identified a “person of interest” in the death of a Yale University graduate student. The state official has firsthand knowledge of the police investigation in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le.

The Connecticut medical examiner is withholding autopsy results on a Yale graduate student at the request of prosecutors. Dr. Wayne Carver says prosecutors asked that the results be withheld “in order to facilitate the investigation” into the killing of 24-year-old Annie Le.

According to Richmond County Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Bowen, Earl Clark, 53, died Friday night in an accident on Mike Padgett Highway.

WJBF News Channel 6 has received reports that a body has been found. We have been told that the body has been found on Riverfront Drive, near the boathouse. We have a crew en route, and will have more information as it becomes available. The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office is now investigating this discovery as a homicide.

According to Lt. David Turno, investigators from the Aiken Department of Public Safety are looking for any information about a deadly shooting that occurred around 8:10 p.m. Tuesday evening. UPDATE: According to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton, the victim of a shooting in Aiken, has been identified as 30-year-old Donald M. McCalla, Jr. of Princess Lane, in Aiken.

Police are investigating the deaths of a South Carolina man and woman whose bodies were found along a dirt road in a wooded area. Multiple media outlets reported that the bodies of 32-year-old Talya Poston and 26-year-old Bill Hall were found Tuesday in Florence County. Police think they were shot.

Aiken County Investigators are searching for two men. They say Maurice Council and Akia Jordan shot and killed a teenager at T&S Mobile Home Park Wednesday night. It’s the third murder there in the last two years. Neighbors want more of a police presence in the area, but police say without community cooperation, everyone is running out of options. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more. UPDATE: Sammy Leon Smith, 33, has now been arrested in connection to the death of 16-year-old James Collins.

An Aiken County man’s body has been found, and his death is being investigated as suspicious.Aiken Coroner Tim Carlton says 53-year old Bernard Jones of Aiken was pronounced dead at the scene, on the 2900 block of Green Bush Road, after being discovered by family members around 2:00 p.m. at a local club at the location. UPDATE: According to Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton, 53-year-old Bernard Jones’ autopsy was performed in Newberry, SC Monday morning. The autopsy revealed Jones died as a result from his injuries from being beaten and gunshot wounds. His death is now ruled a homicide. The official cause of death is exsanguination. The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death.

According to Capt. Troy Elwell, Akia Jordan, 17, of Ridgecrest Road, in Aiken, surrendered to the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday. Jordan has been charged with Murder, Assault and Battery with Intent to Kill, Simple Assault and Battery and Possession of a Weapon during the Commission of a Violent Crime. the charges stem from the shooting death of 16-year-old James Collins on T&S Drive, last week.

The body of a woman discovered late Friday night in Greenville County is being investigated as a homicide.