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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1997
Page
3
South Carolina lawmakers set caps on plaintiff recoveries but did not cap defense fees. A Post and Courier study shows defense lawyers earned over $44 million from 1986 to 1996, about one third of all government lawsuit costs. Police and jail cases spurred much of the spending.
Regulators in Oregon may permit sending almost fully loaded reactor vessels to Barnwell landfill. Nozzles pipes and support plates receive radiation while fuel rods would not be shipped. Critics warn the move sets a dangerous precedent and could shift waste disposal costs to the South. Portland General Electric says intact ships save up to 26 million by not cutting the vessel. Environmentalists doubt disposal limits will be respected and South Carolina officials traditionally restrict such waste.
Murrells Inlet resident Charles C. Smith sues Santee Cooper arguing the Good Cents energy program promised a 29 percent discount on power bills for life of new homes. He claims the utility reduced discounts in 1994 from 25 percent to 12 dollars monthly without warning, harming other Good Cents customers. A court hearing is scheduled this week to decide whether the suit can be broadened.
State officials and experts examine welfare based child care support and the uneven system. Thomas Powell of Winthrop University argues for valuing child care regardless of family wealth as 500000 children spend time in care, with 3767 facilities offering 131013 spaces across counties. Public and private spaces cover about half of children under five.
Anthony White praises Charne White for bravery after a blaze burned the man on his upper body face and back while the girl inhaled smoke. Both victims were hospitalized for seven days.
Middle East News Agency reports most victims believed to be Japanese with one Japanese among 17 wounded. Gunmen opened fire as tourists reached a three story sandstone temple near Luxor. Police say assailants may have escaped and hid nearby. Twenty injured flown to Maadi military hospital. Authorities rushed to Luxor as Cairo officials noted previous German attack cases.
A state inmate Curtis Jackson 42 escaped during a work-release transfer and surrendered about eight and a half hours later in Columbia. He was serving a 4 year 9 month sentence for grand larceny from Lexington County. He had been at the Campbell Pre-Release Center since 1995.
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