South Carolina and Queensland sign sister state pacts
Gov Hodges and Premier Beattie signed two memoranda of understanding linking South Carolina with Queensland Australia. The deals create a Sister State Friendship Agreement to boost education technology science economic development tourism culture health and sports with mutual visits and exchanges and cooperative ventures. A second memorandum initiates a limited commerce pact to explore new investment and market opportunities between the states.
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Columbia
Jim Hodges
Peter Beattie
South Carolina
Queensland
Australia
Hodges
Texas
Great Barrier Reef
Beattie
Australian Labor Party
Inmate Death Prompts Evaluation Delay Inquiry
Spartanburg federal magistrate says an inmate who hanged himself may have survived if officers had immediately transferred him for a mental evaluation after he threatened staff with a knife and disclosed mental illness. James Anthony Hoffman, 37, awaits evaluation. the State Law Enforcement Division investigates.
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Spartanburg
William M. Catoe
James Anthony Hoffman
Mauldin
Hoffman
Internal Revenue Service
Spartanburg County
Catoe
State Law Enforcement Division
Woman settles privacy suit against North Carolina motel
A North Carolina woman named Mary Ann Witmer received an undisclosed settlement from Phoenix Inn in Greenville after suing the motel for invasion of privacy. She alleged employees watched her through a hole in the bathroom wall in July 1997 from a locked maintenance corridor. Police found a hole by an air vent.
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Greenville
North Carolina
Phoenix Inn
Mary Ann Witmer
Apex
N.C
Witmer
Black farmers may join SC class action discrimination suit
Lawyers hold sign up meetings through August 1999 for black farmers in South Carolina who allege race discrimination by USDA between 1981 and 1996. Meetings at South Carolina State University on May 26 and June 16 17 and 30 July 7 14 26 and August 11 will explain the suit and help complete forms at no cost. Call 803-536-8464 for details.
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South Carolina
Department of Agriculture
South Carolina State University
Harry E. Daniels Conference Center
US Department of Agriculture
USDA
USDAS
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Aiken Standard
U.S
Aiken Mall
Aiken
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