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.

USC Aiken held a 9/11 ceremony on Friday. Students gathered at noon in their activities center.

GRAMMY-winning, multi-platinum artist Casting Crowns will perform at the USC Aiken Convocation Center on November 27th at 7:00PM,  headlining its “Until The Whole World Hears Tour,” with special guest Matt Redman, debuting new music from coast to coast off upcoming fourth studio release.  Audiences will be the first to experience multiple new songs from the award-winning band, as highly-anticipated new music from Casting Crowns hits Christian radio airwaves in September. Fans can expect a fresh and powerful God-centered message from lead singer and Pastor Mark Hall, while the band also revisits its blockbuster catalog of crowd favorites like “Who Am I,” “Lifesong” and “Praise You in this Storm.”

USC Aiken Ranks Number One Among Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the South by U.S.News & World Report for the sixth time

The University of South Carolina Aiken has received a $1.3 million gift from an Aiken woman’s estate. The Aiken Standard reported Thursday that Lee Kaber’s gift will provide scholarships for students at the school with documented financial need. Kaber died in June 2008 at age 88.

They will do anything, it seems, for free tickets. Wednesday, the staff at Aiken Regional Medical Centers took a break from scrubbing in, to saddle up, and compete for the title of the best “boots and cowboy hats.“ Our own Joy Howe was a judge.

USC Aiken’s first ever contest in the NCAA Division II Tournament ended on Friday afternoon with the 15th-ranked Pacers falling 6-5 to Carson-Newman in extra innings of their first game of the double-elimination 2009 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional at Bears Field.

Just a little while after learning of their opponent in the NCAA Division II Men’s Tennis Southeast Regional, USC Aiken’s men’s tennis team learned that they had moved up to fifth in the latest Campbell’s Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.

Roberto Diaz moved up 19 places on Wednesday to finish in a tie for 16th, but it would not be enough to move the Pacers into the NCAA Division II finals with the fifth-ranked Pacers concluding their 2008-09 campaign in a tie for 14th place after the final round of the South/Southeast Regional at the par 72, 7,126-yard Robert Trent Jones of the Shoals Fighting Joe Course.

Former USC-Aiken basketball player Meredith Legg, seen here on April 28th, is doing well in her recovery from a rare form of eye cancer according to her family.

Fifth-ranked USC Aiken moved up one spot after the second round of the South/Southeast Regional at the par 72, 7,126-yard Robert Trent Jones of the Shoals Fighting Joe Course into 12th place.

Fifth-ranked USC Aiken concluded the first round of the South/Southeast Regional at the par 72, 7,126-yard Robert Trent Jones of the Shoals Fighting Joe Course in 13th place.

Following the conclusion of regular-season play on Sunday afternoon, the Peach Belt Conference released the bracket for the 2009 Baseball Tournament May 9-10 on the Campus of USC Aiken.