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Stark choice confronts judges deciding how to try juveniles
Found: 1 Week 2 Days 23 Hours 50 Minutes ago
Greenville Online - A Greenville County Family Court judge must decide whether a 14-year-old boy will be tried as an adult on charges that he sexually assaulted and killed 8-year-old Dymia Woody. The stakes are high, the options are limited and the judicial path rarely trodden, legal experts say....
Tropical Storm Fay to blame for flooding, bridge damage
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 16 Hours 9 Minutes ago
The State - Perry Bishop stayed up all night and watched the water rise. On Wednesday morning, his pastures were flooded and the drive of his Chester County home was covered with about 4 feet of water."I don't know when it's going to stop, and my house is going to be overtaken,"said Bishop, 43, who lives off S.C. 97 about a half-mile south of the Chester County line.Torrential rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay caused scattered flooding across York and Chester counties early Wednesday and rendered a rural bridge impassable.But the storm -- which left in its wake some of the worst flooding in decades across the Charlotte metro region -- was easier on York County than on other areas, said Emergency Management Director Cotton Howell."The most significant damage is a bridge in western York County that's impassable,"Howell said Wednesday, referring to a span near the town of Sharon. "We have a tree down here and there."...
Fay to blame for flooding, damaged bridges in York, Chester counties
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 21 Hours 19 Minutes ago
The Herald - Perry Bishop stayed up all night and watched the water rise. On Wednesday morning, his pastures were flooded and the drive of his Chester County home was covered with about 4 feet of water....
SAT scores up in some local school districts
Found: 1 Week 5 Days 13 Hours 52 Minutes ago
The Herald - Combined math, reading and writing SAT scores went up for 2008 graduating high school seniors in half the districts in and around York County, according to the College Board....
S.C. counties sticking with touch-screen voting machines
Found: 1 Week 6 Days 52 Minutes ago
The Herald - Many voters across the country will use paper ballots when they go to the polls in November....
Chester teen struck by car dies days later
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 47 Minutes ago
The Herald - CHESTER -- A Chester teenager died Friday from injuries received in a hit-and-run collision Aug. 14, and authorities charged a Chester woman with murder....
Northeastern Chester County must wait for cleaner water
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 50 Minutes ago
The Herald - CHESTER -- Emma Ware is one of the lucky ones....
Chester teen dies week after hit-and-run
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 8 Hours 51 Minutes ago
The Herald - CHESTER —A Chester teenager died today from injuries received in a hit-and-run wreck Aug. 14....
Teen dies from injuries suffered in hit and run
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 9 Hours 58 Minutes ago
The State - CHESTER —A Chester teenager died today from injuries received in a hit-and-run wreck Aug. 14.Felicia Pardue of Chester had been listed in critical condition for more than a week following the collision.“She had some severe head injuries,”Chester City Police Chief Mike Brown said.Pardue died this morning at Carolinas Medical Center, where she had been since last week, a hospital spokeswoman said.Authorities had originally charged Adrienne Rene Lucas, 20, of 1016 Pineridge Road with assault and battery with intent to kill, Brown said. That charge was upgraded today to murder, Brown said....
Towns vs. county: Chester, Great falls sue over rights to sell old ...
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 17 Hours 58 Minutes ago
The State - CHESTER -- The battle over who can buy an old Great Falls textile mill gained another warrior this week.The Chester County Council is joining the town of Great Falls in a lawsuit against the county's Forfeited Land Commission, which wants to sell the Republic Mill No. 2 to Virginia businessman Don Saulsgiver."It just puts a really bad taste in my mouth,"County Councilman Alex Oliphant said of the lawsuit. "It's like family suing family."Great Falls'attorney filed the lawsuit last month. Town and county leaders claim the commission doesn't have a binding contract to sell the mill to Saulsgiver, who initially told county leaders that he wanted to convert the mill into a plastics recycling business. He also said he wanted to restore old cars and furniture there.But the recycling proposal alarmed many Great Falls residents, who remember the massive fire that claimed another Great Falls mill in 2006. Smoke from that fire contained hydrochloric acid. Shifting winds blew the smoke in every direction and caused evacuations of more than half the town....
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