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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

May 04, 2002

Page

7

Hope scholarship debate stalls South Carolina lottery plan

A conference panel negotiates HOPE and LIFE scholarship funding amid a $172 million lottery plan. Senate and House members press for an $8.7 million HOPE add on for B average seniors while agreeing to bus purchases and tuition aid, with a Tuesday-Wednesday deadline floated to close differences.

Columbia House Senate Tommy Moore D-Clearwater Hugh Leatherman R-Florence Leatherman of Hope Ero Harrell Moore Glenn McConnell HOPE McConnell South Carolina

South Carolina Executes Johnson for Trooper Killing

Richard Charles Johnson was executed by lethal injection for the 1965 killing of Trooper Bruce Smalls during a traffic stop on I-95 in Jasper County. Despite a confession from a former co-defendant, appeals failed and clemency was denied. The case centered on Connie Hess admitting she killed Smalls, a claim the court found unreliable, allowing the fatal sentence to proceed.

Columbia Richard Charles Johnson Johnson State Supreme Court Jim Hodges US Supreme Court Bruce Smalls Jasper County Connie Sue Hess Nebraska Hess Smalls John Son The

Charleston hosts early Decoration Day ceremony in 1865

Charleston marked one of the nation’s first Memorial Day observances with an 1865 graves dedication for Union soldiers in a Confederate prison camp. Reenactors of the 54th Massachusetts depicted the event as a marker is set at Hampton Park, attracting about 10 000 attendees, many Black, as whites had evacuated.

Charleston S.C 54Th Massachusetts David Blight Hampton Park

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