Officers with Aiken Department of Public Safety say a South Aiken High School teacher is under arrest. Craig Kessler is charged with Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature, and Contributing to the Deliquency of a Minor.

Authorities say an elderly woman has been removed from a Greenwood home strewn with animal waste and dirty diapers after officers responding to a gun theft call found her back covered with sores and dead roaches.

According to Lt. Troy Elwell, on December 31st, Aiken County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) investigators arrested two individuals after executing a search warrant at a local hotel. While investigators were conducting an undercover operation, Tramaine Hart sold a quantity of crack cocaine to an undercover operative from room 135 at the Royal Inn Hotel, located at 4638 Jefferson Davis Highway, in Clearwater, SC. Investigators obtained and executed a search warrant at the hotel, a short time later, locating Tramaine Hart and Michael Buford inside the hotel room.

Aiken County investigators say a man is under arrest after being caught with thousands of dollars worth of drugs in the home. Robbie Seigler, 45, is facing several drug charges.

According to Lt. Troy Elwell, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) has obtained warrants on James W. Alston 27, of the 300 block of East Beltline Road, in Anderson, South Carolina for Murder. Alston is currently being held in Anderson, on unrelated charges. Two others are still being sought.The charges stem from an arson amd murder of George Woltz, Jr., on Saturday. Firefighters were called to a house fire on Westover Drive, and after the fire was extinguished, Woltz’s body was found. 51-year-old Keith Alan Fitzgerald has already been arrested for arson and murder.

The mother of a 2-year-old Atlanta boy and her boyfriend have been charged in the toddler’s death.

According to Lt. Troy Elwell, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a former Midland Valley High School baseball coach, who for two years used solicited funds intended for advertisements at the high school baseball field, to cover personal debts totaling more than $12,000.

According to our news partner, ‘The Aiken Standard’, State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) agents have arrested Aiken County GOP treasurer Virginia Austin Allen, 47, for her alleged roll in orchestrating a number of automated phone calls earlier this summer that endorsed S.C. Sen. Greg Ryberg and then S.C. House District 81 seat candidate Scot Singer.

A Columbia, South Carolina man is in jail in Aiken County, after investigators say he arranged to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl, for sex.

The U.S. Attorney in Chicago says his office is making “no allegations” that President-elect Barack Obama was aware of any alleged scheming by arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law has been arrested in Illinois in the deaths of the singer’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Authorities say 27-year-old William Balfour was arrested Monday at a prison where he was being held on a parole violation.

Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law has been arrested in Illinois in the deaths of the singer’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Authorities say 27-year-old William Balfour was arrested Monday at a prison where he was being held on a parole violation.

Court dates for teen cheerleaders accused of hazing was rescheduled, Wednesday. The former Morton Ranch High School varsity cheerleaders of Katy, Texas appeared in court, Wednesday, on charges of hazing.

SLED hotline leads to additional charges against former school administrator, Stephen Coke Eubanks

Another teenager has been arrested in a rash of bomb threats at Effingham County High School in southeast Georgia.