Students at USC-Aiken were encouraged Thursday to get free HIV testing while representatives from Sean’s Last Wish were there. The tests are completely confidential, and students were counseled about safe sex and sexually transmitted diseases.

2012…it’s the year some say will be the end of the earth, as we know it. According to the Mayan calendar, December 21, 2012 will be the last day of earth, as a cataclysm will decimate the earth. The movie is garnering big numbers at the box office. Is the movie a myth, or something that might really happen? Or just another Y2K scare? WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe spoke to some in the know who say this is just Hollywood hype. What do YOU think? Let us know by taking part in our web poll and leaving your comments.

She is a mother, on a mission. 28 months ago, Sean Kennedy was killed outside a bar, in Greenville, South Carolina. His mother now travels the country, spreading the message about hate crimes, and Thursday, she stopped in Aiken. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.

It’s not even Thanksgiving, but they’re gearing up for Christmas at Bel-Ridge Baptist Church in Belvedere, South Carolina. The church is a collection spot for “Operation Christmas Child.“ The project collects shoeboxes packed with gifts for children in more than 100 impoverished countries.

Some Aiken residents are fired up about a proposed shooting range that might be headed to their neighborhood. And, the area targeted for the project, is right down the road from an elementary school. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

Aiken Public Safety Officers need your help to find a man they say tried to rape his co-worker.

Aiken County Officers arrested a woman, they say was selling drugs near a school.

A Williston woman is in jail tonight after investigators say she tried to run over a police officer with her car.

A six-hour standoff in North Augusta, Tuesday, ended with a man headed to jail. It happened on Womrath Court, just off Womrath Road in North Augusta, that’s near Carolina Springs Road. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

Aiken County is one step closer to getting a new County Complex building. It’s a project that’s more than a decade in the making, and now, the Aiken County Council is narrowing down designs for the new building. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

Aiken, SC—Take a look….it’s a brand-new view of our solar system just released by NASA this week. And it was unveiled right here in the CSRA, at USC Aiken.

Soldiers, the Installation Chaplain, and the General gathered to hold a prayer vigil, Friday, to honor the 13 lives that were lost at Fort Hood, by respecting their memory at Fort Gordon. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe reports.

A run for the money…New Ellenton Mayor Pro-Tem Terrence Williams set out to give just that to community schools.

A group of students in New Ellenton, SC took time to honor their veterans on Wednesday. New Ellenton Middle School got a chance to see the Silver Bluff High School Junior ROTC post the colors.

As we honor our veterans on Wednesday, we’re also faced with a grim reality that many of them…are unemployed. The Aiken County employment office sees as many as 350 vets a month, looking for a job. We spoke with an Iraqi veteran, on her way to Afghanistan, injured, and then left standing in the unemployment line. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.