...Hill, who killed three caseworkers at the Department of Social Services office in North Augusta in 1996, and Arthur Hastings Wise, who killed four and injured three others at R.E. Phelon Co. in 1997. Second Circuit Solicitor Barbara R...

AIKEN - A month after ex-employee Arthur Hastings Wise was sentenced to death for killing four workers at R.E. Phelon Co., the blame game continues in state and federal courts...

...Phelon, a front-page story in The Augusta Chronicle that ran the morning of his first major interview since the Arthur Hastings Wise trial may have seemed horribly coincidental. "Former worker goes on rampage" was the headline above the story...

...Thurmond didn't help his case, either, when he withdrew from participating in the mass-murder trial of Arthur Hastings Wise. He said the bombardment of media questions concerning his nomination was distracting the prosecution, but critics...

...Phelon plant killer, who did not mount a defense in trialAssociated PressAIKEN - Any appeal by convicted killer Arthur Hastings Wise that questions his decision not to mount a defense is unlikely to find a sympathetic ear on the state Supreme Court...

...recent years because of several high-profile workplace shooting sprees, such as the four killings in 1997 by Arthur Hastings Wise at Aiken's R.E. Phelon Co. plant. But many independent, or "mom and pop," retail business owners have...

AIKEN - Jurors wasted little time Monday deciding whether Arthur Hastings Wise killed four of his former co-workers and wounded three others at the R.E. Phelon Co. plant in 1997 in an apparent act of...

AIKEN - Arthur Hastings Wise moved one step closer to death row Monday when a jury convicted him in a 1997 rampage in which four workers were killed at the...

...the security shack in front of R.E. Phelon Co. plant in 1997, the former security guard said. That man was Arthur Hastings Wise, Mr. Vance said. "I am totally, 100 percent disabled. I am in pain 24 hours a day, and I take medication...

BEAUFORT, S.C. - Opening statements begin today in Aiken in the death penalty trial of Arthur Hastings Wise, a day after attorneys agreed on a panel of 12 jurors and three alternates from Beaufort. Fifteen Beaufort County residents...