Bikes for Badges raises money for deputy killed in line of duty
Over 700 bikers participated in a motorcycle charity ride Saturday. Bubba’s Bikes for Badges was hosted to honor a Charleston County deputy killed in the line of duty, WIS-TV reported.
Charleston County deputy Joe Matuskovic was fatally wounded on Sept. 8 after a disturbance call at an apartment complex. More than 1,000 law enforcement officers from around the nation attended the Sept. 15 funeral.
Bubba the Love Sponge, the host of the biker event and a nationally syndicated radio host, announced the day after the shooting that he would give a $10,000 check to the deputy’s fiancee to assist the family.
He also said on his show, which airs weekday mornings on 98Rock, that he hoped the Bikes for Badges would provide Matuskovic’s family with additional funds and he planned to donate money to volunteer rescue squad member Larry Britton, who suffered a fatal heart attack while assisting the officers during the incident.
Runners hear screams, find missing woman
A woman who had been missing since Tuesday was found in a ravine off the Swamp Rabbit Trail Saturday morning when a group of runners heard screaming, WIS-TV reported.
Kimara Hughey, 24, had fallen from the trail and was stuck in a ravine. She had last been seen Tuesday around 2 a.m., and her boyfriend reported her missing after she didn't return home.
Paul Myers, one of the runners on the trail Saturday, followed the cries he and others heard until he found Hughey.
Another runner he was with, Shannon Sternberg, called 911, and Hughey was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries.
According to Hughey’s boyfriend, she has a broken leg and possibly hypothermia.
Martha Childress leads Gamecock cheer at football game
Martha Childress, a second-year student at USC and Greenville County native, led the Gamecock cheer of “Game” and “Cocks” from midfield before the Furman game, WLTX-TV reported.
“It was really cool. It was so fun,” Childress said. “It meant the world to me.”
Childress was struck by a stray bullet and paralyzed from the waist down last fall in Five Points while she waited for a cab.
Childress returned to campus for fall classes this semester, after she took online classes during the spring semester last year.
Michael Juan Smith, the 20-year-old man accused of shooting Childress was convicted on a federal weapons charge and is now waiting for a trial on other charges related to Childress’ injury.