18 Apr 2002
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 2002
Page
1
Aiken County considers phased inmate transfers from the current Detention Center to the new Wire Road facility as opening nears. County Administrator Clay Killian briefed council on options to ease crowding and address ongoing problems at the old jail.
Atlanta turned to Kevin Millwood as Greg Maddux felt a back twinge before the Mets game. Millwood entered in relief for four innings of two hit ball, helping the Braves snap a four game skid with a 2 1 victory.
Marie Gleaton Garvin of Columbia and Deloris M. Hammonds of Aiken are noted in obituary notices. The brief items list their deaths and associated cities. Further details appear in local obituary pages.
The House voted to take 61 million from the cleanup fund to cover a 74 million shortfall. Forty percent goes to local schools and the rest to the general fund. The fund then holds about 300 thousand after prior raids. Senate debate on cigarette tax stalls action. Routine readings needed before Senate approval.
An American F 16 dropped a laser guided bomb on Canadian soldiers during a nighttime live fire exercise near Kandahar Afghanistan. Four soldiers were killed and eight injured in the incident. Canadian officials said they will join a joint investigation. Prime Minister Chretien condemned the event and said families deserve answers. President Bush phoned to offer condolences.
Joe Womack, former Savannah River Site reactor chief and noted plutonium expert, disagrees with Nuclear Regulatory Commission doubts that burning plutonium as an energy source will occur. He calls plutonium a valuable energy resource and questions who among the NRC questions its use. Womack, retired in 1989, remains active as a part time nuclear energy consultant.
Judge Keesley halted the murder trial of Christopher Davis after a juror reported being approached before the trial began. Two spectators and potential defense witness Calvin Patton were linked to conversations with jurors, prompting a mistrial and a plan to reconvene with a new judge and defendants in a later session.
Ken Sutherland of Aiken claims Clemson University and the Strom Thurmond Institute misidentified his rival credentials at a campaign event. SRS confirms Sutherland works as a laboratory technician at Savannah River Site and was later listed as a nuclear scientist educator on the institute’s site after emails.
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