In South Carolina, voting continues with an Aiken County Council seat up for grabs in North Augusta, and a mayoral race that got heated at the polls Tuesday.  Incumbent mayor C.H. Williams won re-election with all precincts accounted for.  WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe takes a look at election day in Aiken County.

Tuesday is Election Day, in the Garden City, but Election Officials say the big winner appears to be apathy. Even with three contested Commission races on the ballot, turnout will struggle to top ten percent. WJBF News Channel 6’s George Eskola has the story.

Afghanistan’s top security officials say 26 civilians and security forces have died in election-day militant attacks.

South Carolina lawmakers are considering whether voters should be allowed to cast early ballots in a three-day window before an election. Critics say fewer people will vote. Legislators on the House Judiciary Committee were debating Tuesday whether to advance the bill.

History has been made in this year’s election. For the first time ever, an African-American has been elected President of the United States. Barack Obama made a campaign stp in Aiken, back in the first week of October in 2007. We look back on the 2008 Presidential campaign as WJBF News Channel 6’s Barclay Bishop interviewed Barack Obama.

Several national news organizations declared Barack Obama the winner of North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes, on Thursday.

White voters accounted for the bulk of people casting ballots in South Carolina’s presidential contest, and three-quarters of them supported Republican John McCain.  But an Associated Press exit poll also shows a core of white Democrats voted for President-elect Barack Obama.

For John McCain, his long quest for the White House ended gracefully in a final defeat, Tuesday night. The rest of the Republican Party fared little better than the top of the ticket. So, what happens for them, now? ABC News’ Linsey Davis has the latest.

A bit of election history for you, now. We’ll tell you why we vote on the first Tuesday in November.

Barack Obama will be the 44th U.S. President. The Illinois Senator, now President-Elect, soared past the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the election. Obama celebrated with more than 100,000 people in Chicago’s Grant Park, while Senator John McCain gracefully accepted defeat. ABC News’ Diana Alvear has more.

Senator Obama’s historic win has people of all ages talking about what it means for the country. Count on our Fraendy Clervaud who spent the day speaking with folks over 60 years old about this victory.

It’s not often a local school board gets four new members in one night…but that’s what Tuesday’s election brought to Aiken County. And those new board members have some new ideas, including one about how to handle discipline. Count on Joy Howe to show what’s at stake.

Two small Georgia communities say yes to alcohol sales on Sunday.

Hundreds in Augusta turned out at the polls, Election Day, but their votes did not get counted. But, they could still end up in some candidate’s column.

Some of America’s future voters are seeing something many of their parents and grandparents thought they might never see in their lifetime. WJBF News Channel Six’s Paige Tucker caught up with some elementary schoolers to get their reaction to Obama’s historic victory.