Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, who held the title as the oldest person in the country for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Georgia.

Among the dead is the armed suspect in Aurora, where nearly six months ago a gunman’s bloody rampage inside a movie theater killed 12.

Republican lawmakers who supported raising taxes are defending their vote to thwart potential problems in 2014.

The twin-engine plane hit a hill and crashed in a forest in an uninhabited area outside Grenoble.