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Brush fire shuts down one lane of Jefferson Davis Hwy
WARRENVILLE, S.C. (WJBF) – Police and fire crews are extinguishing a brush fire in Warrenville. Officials say the blaze broke out around 6:11 Friday morning and shut down one lane of traffic on Jefferson Davis Highway eastbound near the Aiken County Career and Technology Center. No structures are in danger, no word in how the […]
Hampton Police searches for missing 13-year-old
HAMPTON, S.C. (WSAV) – The Hampton Police Department (HPD) is asking for the public’s help locating a missing endangered juvenile. 13-year-old Abigail Tingle was last seen Thursday on Wade Hampton Rd in the town of Hampton. She is five foot, five inches, and weighs 275 pounds. Abigail has black and blue hair and brown eyes. […]
Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned South Carolina inmate chose Friday to be executed by lethal injection, instead of by firing squad or electrocution, for killing a store clerk in 1999. State prison officials had told Richard Moore this month he could choose the method for his Nov. 1 execution. State law had given him until Friday to decide or by default he would be electrocuted. The execution of Moore, who is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop it, would mark the second in South Carolina after a 13-year pause that began because the state could not obtain a drug needed for lethal injection. Moore, 59, is on death row for the 1999 killing of clerk James Mahoney. Moore went into the Spartanburg County store, unarmed, to rob it and got into a shootout with the clerk after taking one of two guns from him, authorities said. Moore was wounded in the arm, and prosecutors said his blood was found on Mahoney’s body as he stepped over the clerk, looking for cash.