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CAROLINA 0 BRIEF Collegiate Ministries to dedicate building Baptist Collegiate Ministries will dedicate its new ministry center Sunday. The ceremony will take place at the organization’s new building, located at 819 Main St. An open house will be held beginning at 2:30 p.m. At 4 p.m., a service will be held to dedicate the building. A dinner for alumni and “friends of BCM” will take place at 5:30 p.m. Cost is $7* per person, with the meal being catered by Sweet Magnolia’s. Those who wish to attend must RSVP to BCM, 819 Main St., Columbia, SC 29201. THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Last Lecture Series — Thomas M. Hughes, “How Would I Know ... ?”: 7 p.m. Harper College Gressette Room THURSDAY Career Forum — “What Can I Do with a Psych Degree?”: 4 p.m. Russell House Theater USC Swing Shift Jazz Combo: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Statistics Colloquium — Paul Schliekelman, “Power of Expression QTLs for Mapping of Complex Trait Loci”: 2 p.m. LeConte 210A FRIDAY Rebecca Nagel oboe studio recital: 4 p.m. School of Music 206 Katherine Kuhfuss senior voice recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Murder suspect tells of killing as many as 14 The Associated Press ATLANTA — Serial killing suspect Jeremy Bryan Jones told authorities he’s killed as many as 14 people in several states, including eight women in the metropolitan Atlanta area, an Alabama detective said. Mobile County sheriff’s Detective Paul Birch told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he plans to detail the deaths in a news conference Wednesday. Birch told the newspaper that Jones said he killed as many as five Atlanta-area prostitutes while he lived in Georgia, and has been linked to the 2002 slaying death of Tina Mayberry, a 38-year-old who was stabbed to death outside a Douglasville restaurant. Douglas County District Attorney David McDade said he plans to charge Jones in the death of 16-year-old Amanda Greenwell, who lived at the Douglasville mobile home park where Jones lived prior to moving to Alabama. Jones also has been called a suspect in the 2004 disappearance of Forsyth County hairdresser Patrice Endres. McDade said he has not sought charges against Jones in the slayings of Mayberry or . Endres. “Jones has said a lot of things, but I’m going to make certain we make decisions based on facts we can prove,” *1 __-_! J ION THE WES © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM Read online five days a week. Whoa. I Talking Turkey Justin Chapura/THE (JAMKdOdK Gerald Robbins of the Foreign Policy Research Institute speaks Tuesday about Turkish politics. Two inmates escape from Midlands prison Two inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison here, according to the state Corrections Department Web site. Jimmy Causey, 35, had been at Broad River Correctional Institution after being convicted last year of kidnapping and other charges. Johnny Brewer, 39, was sentenced to life in prison in 1999 after being convicted of killing his sister-in-law in 1994. The Corrections Department said the’two men escaped about 10:45 Tuesday morning. No details of their escape were made available and agency director Jon Ozmint was unavailable for comment, his assistant said. Richland County investigators said the two men were seen heading east toward Sumter around noon. They were seen with a woman in a champagne-colored Oldsmobile Alero. Causey was sentenced to life without parole after being convicted of holding a prominent Columbia defense attorney and his family at gunpoint and robbing them in 2002. Jack Swerling had represented Causey in at least two previous criminal cases before the incident. Prosecutors had tried to get Brewer sentenced to death for killing 23-year-old Kelly Burbage in Lexington. Despite representing himself at both his trial and sentencing phase, Brewer was spared the death penalty. Nation * Commission approves postage rate increase WASHINGTON — A 2-cent boost in the price of a postage stamp was approved Tuesday by the independent Postal Rate Commission. Under the recommendation, which now goes to the Postal Service’s Board of Governors for final action, the cost of a first-class stamp will go from 37 cents to 39 cents and the postcard rate will rise a penny to 24 cents. The Postal Service requested the increase last April. It is expected to go into effect in January. The increase is needed so the post office can make a $3.1 billion escrow ' payment required by Congress. A bill that would eliminate that payment ana maKe otner changes in postal operations was approved by the House but has not yet passed the Senate. The White House has expressed reservations about the bill. The Postal Service had requested a 5.4 percent increase in all postage rates, but the rate commission altered some of the proposals. The matter now goes back to the Board of Governors, which can agree to the commission’s changes or ask for reconsideration. The rate commission said its decision reduced proposed increases for nonprofit organizations and small local newspapers, but would raise the post office’s planned charges for mailing books and media materials. World Applications overrun Seoul stem cell center SEOUL, South Korea — A stem cell research center in Seoul was overloaded Tuesday when it began formally accepting applications from patients seeking to benefit from cloning technology. The World Stem Cell Hub, led by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk, had announced that it would begin receiving patient registration via the Internet and in person Tuesday morning. Its Web site, inaccessible for hours due to a rush of applications, returned to normal around late morning. “Our Web site was extremely slow for about three hours from 8 a.m. as there were too many access attempts,” said Yang Sung-kee, an official in charge of the Web site management at Seoul National Hospital where the stem cell research center is. “It looked like the server went down, but it didn’t.” The official said his team had two network experts on standby in case of attacks on the site from those who oppose cloning technology, but there were no such attempts. Nearly 2,600 applications were received as of Tuesday morning, said Lim Jong-pil, an official at the research center at Seoul National University Hospital. The stem cell bank opened Oct. 19 with the aim of serving as the main center for providing scientists around the world with embryonic stem cells, seen as a potential source of replacement tissue for people with a variety of ailments. TH#feAMECOCK Nobody covers USC 'better. Nobody. Not even Dr. Phil. Weather Forecast TODDY High 1 Loui AH THU. High 15 Loui 41 FBI. High 18 Loui 50 SflT. High 81 Lorn 60 High 81 Low 53 POLICE REPORT -:—_—--_..s___—__ FRIDAY, OCT. 28 Malicious injury to private property, 7:30a.m. Snowden, 600 Main St. Someone removed a fire hose from a hallway cabinet and turned the water on on the fifth and sixth floors, damaging hallways and rooms. A carpet was damaged in one room, and speakers and various textbooks were reported damaged in another. Estimated total value: $582 Reporting ojjicer: M.J. Winnington ABC violation, improper lane change, 11:31 p-m. Intersection of Blossom and Assembly streets Reporting officer J.M. Harrelson stopped a Firebird for improperly changing lanes, nearly causing an accident with another vehicle. Upon approaching the vehicle, Harrelson observed a half-full liquor bottle behind the passenger seat. He also observed the passenger, Shane Yip, 19, heavily intoxicated. The driver, Curtis Hughes, and Yip were arrested and taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. A further search produced another liquor bottle and an orange juice bottle. SATURDAY, OCT. 29 Malicious injury to real property, 2:55 a.m. Someone damaged a water fountain by kicking it from the wall. Estimated value: $300 Reporting officer: A. Mitchell Possession of an open container of alcohol, minor in possession of beer, 3:03 a.m. Intersection of Green and Barnwell streets Reporting officer J.M. Harrelson stopped a silver Chevrolet Blazer driving with its headlights off. Upon making contact with the occupants, he noticed an 18 pack of Bud Light on the floor board in the back seat. After being asked to exit the vehicle, Harrelson observed an open container, three-fourths full of beer, near the front passenger seat. Molly Nye, 18, claimed the container was hers. Katherine Babcock, 18, claimed possession of a second open container found in the back seat. The driver, Victor Villegas, 19, claimed possession of the 18-pack. All three occupants were arrested and transported to Glenn Detention Center. Larceny of an Xbox, 3 p.m. West Quad, 438 Main St. Someone took an Xbox, DVD controller, wireless remote and Adidas sneakers from an unsecured room. Estimated value: $330 Reporting officer: M.J. Winnington SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Disorderly conduct, 4:30 a.m. rreston, vrreenc oi. Reporting officer D. Davis arrived and found Billy Estrada, 18, lying on the lobby couch. He refused to sit up after several requests to do so. First Responders and EMS responded to evaluate Estrada, but he refused their attention. EMS noted a strong smell of alcohol, and Estrada refused to submit identification. He was arrested and taken to Glenn Detention Center. Suspicious fire, 6:59 a.m. South Quad, ^ 500 Sumter St. <- r . 401’s hallway sign. There was minor damage to the carpet and smoke damage to a wall. Housing and other officers were notified. Reporting officer: M.J. Winnington Grand larceny ^ of computer, 4:45 p.m. Snowden, 600 Main St. Someone removed a Dell Latitude D610 laptop and a 15-inch Magnavox flat screen television from an unsecured room. Estimated value: $2,200 Reporting officer: M.J. Winnington Larceny of microwave, 8:30 p.m. South Quad, 500 Sumter St. Someone removed a white microwave from a room. Estimated value: $150 Reporting officer: D. Davis MONDAY, OCT. 31 Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within a half-mile of a school, improper standing no proof of insurance, 2 a.m. 400 block of Assembly Street Reporting officer J.M. Harrelson stopped a white^ Buick, stopped in the^^ intersection of Blossom and Assembly streets while the light was green. Upon searching the vehicle, driven by Carnell Foster, 23, Harrelson found a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana in nine dear plastic bags inside a black ski cap under the front seat. Foster was arrested and taken to Glenn Detention Center. Malicious injury to realproperty, 8 a.m. Russell House, 1400 Greene St. Facilities Management said^ someone damaged 15 sprinkler heads. Estimated value: $420 Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox Malicious injury to real property, 8:40 a.m. Thomas Cooper Library, 1322 Greene St. Someone sprayed graffiti at three different locations on the fifth level and one location on the third level. Estimated damage: $100 Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons Auto break-in; Larceny of cell-phone, 1:05 p.m. ^R Bates House, 1423 Whaley St. The victim, 18, said someone entered her 2000 Jeep, causing damaged to the driver’s-side lock, and stole $224 in cash, an LG cell phone and a Sony. CD player. Estimated value: $559 Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox Malicious injury to real property, 2:30 p.m. McBryde, 1309 Blossom St. Someone painted graffiti^ on five different locations in the area. Estimated damage: $300 Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox TUESDAY, NOV. 1 Suspicious activity, 12:46 a.m. Thomas Cooper Library, 1322 Greene St. The victim, 18, said three unknown subjects chased him from the library to his dorm.f Reporting officer: _ --