Cheerleader injured in Kentucky game, carried from field
Cheerleader Lauren West, a sports and entertainment management student at USC, was injured during the first quarter of Saturday night’s game at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky. She was carried on a stretcher off of the sideline, The State reported.
After the injury, Gamecock Athletics tweeted at 8:13 p.m.
“Report from #Gamecocks sideline: Cheerleader Lauren West was stabilized for precaution only. She was moving all of her body parts.”
This was the second cheering injury at Commonwealth Stadium during the course of the season.
A second-year student on Kentucky’s cheerleading team suffered a fall in the fourth quarter of the Aug. 30 game between Kentucky and Tennessee-Martin. She was treated and released from UK Chandler Hospital.
Car hits two women in Five Points, does not stop
A car with the SC license plate JCS925 hit two women walking within the crosswalk on Harden Street in Five Points and failed to stop, The State reported.
Neither of the two women were seriously hurt after the hit-and-run accident, which occurred Friday night. A Columbia Police news release said an older model Buick Century hit the women before turning onto Greene Street in the direction of USC.
A witness took a picture of the car’s license plate. The car was described as possibly gold or tan with front bumper or hood damage.
Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.
Peak Campus hopes to build private dorms in Five Points
Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin is in the process of requesting the city to change its zoning laws to allow private student dorms in Five Points, The State reported.
Peak Campus Development, a company based out of Atlanta, is looking into developing a plot of land on the corner of Gervais and Harden Streets, but their plans are contingent on the zoning law change. The new private student dorms, which will be worth an estimated $50 million, would be located across Gervais from the Five Points Cock-Pit and a corner gas station.
Peak Campus already has five student hosing properties in North Carolina and one at Coastal Carolina University, as well as in 22 other states.
The Columbia Planning Commission will meet Monday to recommend to the City Council whether the city should approve or reject the change. The City Council will consider the amendment at a public zoning hearing on Nov. 18. The council will hold make its recommendation Monday on whether the city should approve or reject the amendment, and the final reading and decision in will be in December.