A coalition of sports and environmental groups wants Batesburg-Leesville to stop looking at increased sewage disposal in the Edisto River.
Their demand comes as town leaders stick with the river as one option under consideration.
Leaders of the Sierra Club and Palmetto Paddlers say the idea jeopardizes recreation on a river that is one of the most pristine in South Carolina.
David Hutchens of Lexington, a leader of both groups, said their position is “nothing else dumped in the river,” no matter how well town leaders say anti-pollution efforts work.
The demand comes as town leaders search for ways to satisfy groups skeptical of its plan to expand wastewater disposal.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154799/groups-oppose-batesburg-leesville.html#RSS=local
A coalition of sports and environmental groups wants Batesburg-Leesville to stop looking at increased sewage disposal in the Edisto River.
Their demand comes as town leaders stick with the river as one option under consideration.
Leaders of the Sierra Club and Palmetto Paddlers say the idea jeopardizes recreation on a river that is one of the most pristine in South Carolina.
David Hutchens of Lexington, a leader of both groups, said their position is “nothing else dumped in the river,” no matter how well town leaders say anti-pollution efforts work.
The demand comes as town leaders search for ways to satisfy groups skeptical of its plan to expand wastewater disposal.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154799/groups-oppose-batesburg-leesville.html#RSS=local
The West Columbia Police Department has arrested two women for defrauding unsuspecting victims of money under the guise of subleasing the victims’ apartments.
Investigators on Tuesday arrested Cynthia Louise Allen, 23, of West Columbia and Coreshia Malasia Henry, age 25, of Sumter. They were charged with obtaining goods by false pretense and have been released on bond from the Lexington County Detention Center, the department said.
Chief Dennis Tyndall said the victims of the scam were college students who placed ads on Craigslist seeking people to take over their student housing leases. The suspects would contact the victim and take money from them in exchange for assuming the lease contract. Once they had the victim’s money, the suspects would end communication with the victim but not assume the lease, leaving the victims responsible.
Tyndall reminded residents they should never pay someone to take over a lease and should instead have anyone who is subletting fill out the necessary contracts with the rental property staff.
From Staff Reports
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2155988/west-columbia-arrest-2-for-scamming.html#RSS=local
A coalition of sports and environmental groups wants Batesburg-Leesville to stop looking at increased sewage disposal in the Edisto River.
Their demand comes as town leaders stick with the river as one option under consideration.
Leaders of the Sierra Club and Palmetto Paddlers say the idea jeopardizes recreation on a river that is one of the most pristine in South Carolina.
David Hutchens of Lexington, a leader of both groups, said their position is “nothing else dumped in the river,” no matter how well town leaders say anti-pollution efforts work.
The demand comes as town leaders search for ways to satisfy groups skeptical of its plan to expand wastewater disposal.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154799/groups-oppose-batesburg-leesville.html#RSS=local
The Crayton Middle School greeting echoed through the school auditorium and across the galaxy as students and faculty welcomed some special guest speakers to their campus Wednesday.
“Houston Space Station, this is Crayton Middle School. Can you hear me?” seventh-grade teacher Ann Carbone called out to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
“This is the space station. We can hear you loud and clear,” the reply came – from thousands of miles away.
The Richland 1 school is one of three nationwide selected to take part in a downlink video with the space station. During an often lively question-and-answer session, students inquired about a range of subjects related to space travel including the obstacles to becoming an astronaut, how crew members stay in contact with their families and the special exercise regiments astronauts have to undergo.
In recent months students in Crayton’s International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme have participated in a comprehensive study of space. Those lessons were conducted in various subject areas and included such things as the biographies of astronauts, the use of math in problem-solving in space and the science of space exercise.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154802/lesson-is-out-of-this-world.html#RSS=local
The West Columbia Police Department has arrested two women for defrauding unsuspecting victims of money under the guise of subleasing the victims’ apartments.
Investigators on Tuesday arrested Cynthia Louise Allen, 23, of West Columbia and Coreshia Malasia Henry, age 25, of Sumter. They were charged with obtaining goods by false pretense and have been released on bond from the Lexington County Detention Center, the department said.
Chief Dennis Tyndall said the victims of the scam were college students who placed ads on Craigslist seeking people to take over their student housing leases. The suspects would contact the victim and take money from them in exchange for assuming the lease contract. Once they had the victim’s money, the suspects would end communication with the victim but not assume the lease, leaving the victims responsible.
Tyndall reminded residents they should never pay someone to take over a lease and should instead have anyone who is subletting fill out the necessary contracts with the rental property staff.
From Staff Reports
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2155988/west-columbia-arrest-2-for-scamming.html#RSS=local
Attorney General Alan Wilson and several top law enforcement chiefs Wednesday unveiled a list of 10 legislative priorities they said they will work to pass by the session’s end in June.
The priorities – mostly nuts-and-bolts criminal matters – address issues that have been percolating in the General Assembly for years but have so far failed to pass.
One, for example, would give prosecution and defense lawyers an equal number of strikes against potential jurors. Currently, defense lawyers have twice as many jury strikes as prosecutors for serious crimes such as murder and armed robbery.
The joint law enforcement lobbying effort was said by Wilson to be the first ever in the state. Different agencies have tended to go their own way and lobby lawmakers for narrow interests, Wilson said.
“There are so many things we agree on – it’s so important that we speak with one voice,” Wilson said.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154804/law-enforcement-chiefs-reveal.html#RSS=local
Some South Carolina magistrates are throwing out drunken-driving cases because the drivers were on mopeds, which are exempt from SC motor-vehicle laws.
But Wednesday, a state Senate committee approved a bill that would reclassify mopeds as a motor vehicle in terms of enforcing drinking-and-driving laws only.
You don’t need a driver’s license to drive a moped in South Carolina, making it a popular choice for drunken-driving offenders with suspended licenses. In the Senate version of the bill, DUI offenders with suspended licenses still could drive mopeds. But they would no longer be exempt from state drunken-driving laws.
The bill, originally sponsored by state Reps. Eddie Tallon and Derham Cole, both Spartanburg Republicans, passed the SC House last year. That version of the proposal would have considered a moped to be a motor vehicle in all aspects of the law.
State law defines a moped as having a motor of less than 50-cubic centimeters and not capable of going faster than 30 miles per hour.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154803/bill-would-end-dui-exemption-for.html#RSS=local
A second juvenile wanted in connection with the string of pit bull thefts from the Columbia Animal Shelter was taken into custody today.
The 13-year-old male turned himself in to investigators at police headquarters, according to the Columbia Police Department.
The teen and three others have been charged in connection with the investigation.
Two of the four charged are adults.
Acting on information provided by the suspects, police found 17 dogs at a rural residence in Bamberg County, about 50 miles south of Columbia. Not all of the dogs were those missing from the shelter. The dogs were tied to trees with heavy chains, but police reported only minor injuries to most.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2155967/4th-suspect-charged-in-thefts.html#RSS=local
Attorney General Alan Wilson and several top law enforcement chiefs Wednesday unveiled a list of 10 legislative priorities they said they will work to pass by the session’s end in June.
The priorities – mostly nuts-and-bolts criminal matters – address issues that have been percolating in the General Assembly for years but have so far failed to pass.
One, for example, would give prosecution and defense lawyers an equal number of strikes against potential jurors. Currently, defense lawyers have twice as many jury strikes as prosecutors for serious crimes such as murder and armed robbery.
The joint law enforcement lobbying effort was said by Wilson to be the first ever in the state. Different agencies have tended to go their own way and lobby lawmakers for narrow interests, Wilson said.
“There are so many things we agree on – it’s so important that we speak with one voice,” Wilson said.
http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/16/2154804/law-enforcement-chiefs-reveal.html#RSS=local
