Five Die From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Barnwell Party
State Fire Marshal Richard Campbell says SLED will assist in tracing the source of carbon monoxide that killed five people at a Barnwell party. The victims were found at the Salkehatchie Coon Hunters clubhouse near Barnwell, about 60 miles southwest of Columbia, after gas fumes were detected and investigators noted two propane heaters in the cinder block building. Autopsies reported carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause.
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Columbia
Richard Campbell
Barnwell
Salkehatchie Coon
Officer Becomes Local Hero for Rescue Spree
Charleston County Patrolman Henry M. Mixon III is hailed after saving a man from jumping off the Silas N. Pearman Bridge over the Cooper River. Two years earlier he stopped an airman from leaping from a Cooper River bridge and months later delivered a baby in a moving truck en route to a hospital.
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Charleston
Henry M. Mixon III
Mixon
Silas N. Pearman
Cooper River
Awendaw
Mount Pleasant
Mother Wins Another Round in Custody Battle
Kathleen Blackburn wins another round as Superior Court Judge Walker P. Johnson Jr. dismisses her former husband Mark Blackburns custody suit for Nickolas. The 4-year-old Nickolas was reunited with his mother November 21 after a Georgia Supreme Court order directed Jenkins County authorities to enforce the June ruling returning custody to Kathleen.
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Olas
Blackburn
Nickolas
Georgia Supreme Court
Jenkins County
High Court
Water supply urged to be treated as public trust
South Carolina should view all water as a public trust and guard against droughts and new problems, a special study committee said in a Thursday report. The Governors State Water Law Review Committee urged the state to consider water quality and quantity in all decisions.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Gover
Nor’s State Water Law Review Committee
State May Add Cable Tax in South Carolina
The South Carolina Tax Commission plans a 4 percent sales tax on cable TV starting Jan 1 affecting about 300 000 customers. Legislators challenge the authority and push to delay or exempt the levy while officials say it will raise around 1 million dollars annually.
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Columbia
South Carolina
State Tax Commission
Gary Turner
Agency
Phil Leventis
D-Sumter
Alex Harvin III
D-Clarendon
Commission
Harvin
Turner
Death Delayed Mother Weeps as Stay Halts Georgia Execution
Freddie Davis, a condemned killer in Manchester, learned a federal judge granted a stay of his December 24 execution. Warden Robert Francis said the family reacted with relief as Davis’ lawyers were given until January 14 to file new arguments challenging the conviction and death sentence.
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Atlanta
Freddie Davis
Georgia
Robert Francis
Jackson
Davis
Francis
U.S
G. Ernest Tidwell
Manchester
Wounded Deer Dies At Zoo In Worcester Massachusetts
A pregnant fallow doe deer at Green Hill Park zoo Worcester died under anesthesia after being shot in the skull with an arrow and then wounded in the lung by a tranquilizer dart. The deer, one of about a dozen in a pen near the petting zoo, died on the operating table.
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Mass
Europe
Green Hill Park Zoo
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