In Brief: Oct. 3, 2013
By Amanda Coyne | Oct. 2, 2013A high school quarterback is facing drug charges, 11 juveniles pleaded guilty in the beating death of a Columbia man and the city’s next mayor will get a pay raise.
A high school quarterback is facing drug charges, 11 juveniles pleaded guilty in the beating death of a Columbia man and the city’s next mayor will get a pay raise.
PCBs found in Columbia-area sewers Carcinogenic chemicals have been found in a Columbia-area restaurant’s sewers, The State reported. The revelation comes out of a state investigation of illegal chemical dumping in the Midlands and the Upstate. Now, the concern is whether PCBs found their way into rivers from wastewater treatment plants or onto farmland and landfills from contaminated sludge. PCBs have recently been found in multiple Upstate wastewater treatment plants, which release into rivers.
Accused shooter out on bond during killing A man is accused of killing another man in a parking lot last week while out on bond on charges of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder, The State reported.
A Sumter County woman is accused of stabbing her husband with a screwdriver, a 9-year-old boy dies after being struck by a tractor trailer while riding his bicycle, and former USC football coach Paul Dietzel dies at 89.
Vincent Sheheen has been cleared of three ethics complaints, a 12-year-old charged in a fatal shooting has been placed under house arrest, and Riverbanks Zoo is getting an antisocial gorilla.
Miss SC, organization apologize for introduction The Miss South Carolina Organization and Miss South Carolina Brooke Mosteller issued an apology Wednesday for the line Mosteller used introducing South Carolina at the Miss America pageant. The USC School of Law student introduced the state as a place where “20 percent of our homes are mobile, because that’s how we roll.” Some South Carolina residents expressed offense to the quip on Twitter, while others found it humorous.
Officers who struck inmate will not face charges, Lexington men to be given additional theft charges and group speaks out against strong-mayor referendum
Miss South Carolina misses out on the Miss America finals, 13 people are killed in a shooting at the Naval Yard in Washington, D.C., and violent crimes are down in Richland and Lexington counties.
Columbia building may become historical site The Palmetto Compress and Warehouse building has been empty for years, but it may be on track to become a preserved historical site, The Post and Courier reported. The big brick building was almost torn down until the city stopped demolition plans and bought the building earlier this year. The Columbia Development Corporation got a $5.6 million loan from the city of Columbia in order to purchase the building to save it from demolition, according to Fred Delk, the director of the Columbia Development Corporation. “I think we’re going to get a lot of different proposals, and they’re going to range from student residential with some commercial to the other extreme of some combinations of lodging, market residential, office uses and commercial uses,” Delk said. Clemson senior killed in pickup truck crash A pickup truck crash killed a 21-year-old Clemson University senior over the weekend, The State reported. Sara Ann Comer of York County was one of three people ejected from a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck after it swerved off of the road at around 3 a.m.
Foul play expected in Columbia man’s death, three people, one dog found dead in submerged SUV and Tyheem Henry updates his Facebook from prison.
A man is convicted of mistreating animals, another man is breaking into apartments and staring at sleeping women, while The State’s well-known sports columnist will no longer cover the Gamecocks.
Converse College is cutting its tuition prices by nearly half, Drip’s owner is opening a Five Points gelato joint, and South Carolina could be getting a fourth area code.
Police say a man took a loaded gun into a Charleston airport, Gov. Nikki Haley appointed her new chief of staff, and a Murrells Inlet high school evacuated Monday after several American flags were burned outside its entrance.
A Newberry High School junior was struck and killed by a train, a College of Charleston student died in a car accident and a West Ashley teacher has been accused of anti-gay bullying
Student at Benedict College bled to death after delivering a child in her dorm room, students and driver examined after bus crash and Nikki Haley appointed her chief of staff to director of the state Department of Corrections
Gov. Nikki Haley locked herself out of the Governor’s Mansion wearing a bathrobe.