Probe into toddler's death follows polygraph test fade
In Laurens County a two year old Jacob drowned body found in a muddy farm pond a week ago. Investigators report the boy's mother passed a second polygraph. State LE about two other people on scene at Columbia HQ. Police say this is among first steps in the case. School employees face more screening under a plan by the State Board of Education seeking background checks for most district staff.
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Uaukins
Jacob
Columbia
Laurens County
Mike Eaton
State Board of Education
Juror Illness Triggers Mistrial in Witherspoon Case
In Manning AP report, a death penalty trial halted when a juror was dismissed for mental health issues and no alternate jurors were available. Witherspoon, 20, and two teens face murder charges in the 1998 slaying of Margie Purvis, a convenience store clerk, plus armed robbery and weapon charges.
Death notices list Bates Baxley Buchanan Rawls Simpkins
Obituary notices from page list Derrie Bates Baxley of Blackville Dallas G Buck Buchanan of Aiken Myrtle Rawls of Wagoner and Rutie Mae Simpkins of Aiken with death notices and brief biographical details.
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Derrie Bates Baxley
Blackville
Dallas
G. (Buck) Buchanan
Aiken
Myrtle Rawls
Wagoner
Rutie Mae Simpkins
Nations jobless hold steady in September report
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate stayed at 5.6 percent in September while payroll jobs rose by 121,000. The report notes gains in temporary staffing offset weakness in manufacturing and frames the debate on possible Federal Reserve rate cuts this year.
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Washington
Labor Department
Black Activists Challenge Simpson To Join Movement
Black leaders in Los Angeles urge O J Simpson to step beyond his estate and join local activism after his acquittal. They warn he risks being seen as an ingrate if he does not engage with the community that supported him during the trial. In Dana Point, police stepped up patrols after threats against Nicole Brown Simpson’s family.
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Simpson
Los Angeles
O.5
O.J
Dodge
Celes King
Congress of Racial Equality
America
King
O.J. Be
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
South Central
Brentwood
James Mays
Dana Point
Price tag for South Carolina travel soars high
Transportation consultant Michael Sexton warned a statewide transit plan hearings that costs could reach 242 billion dollars by 2015 to upgrade roads for rising traffic. He noted a 25 year horizon reflects 2 percent annual growth and a 50 percent GDP rise, with rail and airport projects also on the table.
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Blackville
Michael Sexton
Department of Transportation
Sexton
Branchville
Augusta
Georia
Bobby Jones
Russians seek to right past nuclear wrongs with Chernobyl and Chelyabinsk
Dr Zhores Medvedev and Dr Nikolay Arkhipov, renowned biologists and environmentalists, visit the Savannah River Ecology Lab and University of Georgia to discuss two major nuclear accidents. They compare Chernobyl's 1986 release to a 700 ton TNT equivalent and highlight the 1957 Chelyabinsk disaster's long lasting Strontium-90 contamination near a densely populated industrial region.
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Chelyabinsk
Chernobyl
Zhores A. Medvedev
Nikolay P. Arkhipov
Medvedev
London
Arkhipov
Savannah River Ecology Lab
Oratory
University of Georgia
Savannah River
SREL
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United Way
Abby
Serve
Salina Harrison
Hiller
Ayana Crosby
Celes
S.C
By Carl Langley
Wilbur Smith Associates
Via
United States
Russia
Scott Webster
Savannah
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