Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STATE BRIEFS Duke Power plans lead to more scrutiny COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A plan to underreport Duke Power’s income to state regu lators to avoid cutting rates for 2 million customers in North and South Carolina was discussed by top executives as early as December 1998, according to internal documents. Internal documents obtained by The State discussed how Duke Power would list financial entries so it could avoid exceed ing its “allowed return.” The State obtained the doc uments from a Duke accountant who asked not to be named. The accountant previously told South Carolina regulators about the possible underreporting of income. A Duke Power spokesman told the newspaper Friday and The Associated Press on Sunday the company never intended to mislead regulators and denied any deliberate wrongdoing. Anderson man convicted of murder ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) - An Anderson man has been convicted of murder in the beating death of his mother-in-law. Joseph H. Brown Jr., 37, showed little emotion Friday when Circuit Court Judge J.C. “Buddy’* Nicholson sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Donna Jean Wilkes, 50, who was living with her daughter and Brown, was found bludgeoned to death in their home Feb. 21. A day earlier, Brown’s wife, Amanda Brown, said she was going to leave him, prosecutor Druanne White said. Brown had been depositing Wilkes’ paychecks and alimony into an account so she could save enough for an apartment. But Brown failed to produce the money and he was scared about losing his wife, White said. Hag Student complies, takes down flag CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 what I wanted at all.” Both Dawgert and Gibson agree Teen found guilty in shooting case COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 17 year-old Columbia man has been convicted of involuntary man slaughter in the shooting death of a man who tried to break up an argument outside an apartment. A Richland County jury found Brandon Ulysses Pinkard guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday night, the prosecutor’s office said. A sentencing date has not been set. Roger Keitt, 32, was shot once in the chest with a 9mm handgun July 7,2000, Sorenson said. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SUIT OVER HUNLEY: Greenville retiree Edward D. Sloan Jr. is suing to force the caretakers of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley to disclose all its dealings under the state’s open records laws. NATION BRIEFS Recovery continues in bridge accident PORT ISABEL, TEXAS (AP) - Safety concerns on Sunday delayed the work to recover victims missing since barges smashed a section out of a major bridge and dropped cars 85 feet into a shipping channel, killing at least five people. The impact of the barges hitting a piling knocked down two adjacent 80-foot segments of the Queen Isabella Causeway, which connects the popular South Padre Island resorts to the mainland, into the Laguna Madre channel early Saturday. A third 80-foot section of the bridge collapsed Saturday after noon, suspending recovery work indefinitely while engineers evaluated the structural integ rity of remaining sections of the four-lane bridge, said Adrian Rivera, spokesman for the Texas public safety Department. that if the rule were to be eradi cated completely, there would be chaos. “The university has to find a way to keep everyone happy,” Dawgert said. “I respect the uni versity more because of the way they handled this situation. The school is a melting pot, I know. You have to respect those back “There’s a concern with the structure, and we don’t want to put divers at risk,” Rivera said early Sunday. Officials said it could be late Sunday or even Monday before recovery efforts resume. An unknown number of people were missing in the 50 foot-deep Laguna Madre, part of the Intracoastal Waterway shipping route along the Gulf Coast, officials said. Thirteen people were rescued. The waterway was closed. Tropical storm heads back out to sea MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Gabrielle headed out to sea Saturday after a drenching, daylong passage across the Florida peninsula that at its peak left a half million homes and businesses in the dark. Nearly 160,000 homes and businesses remained without power Saturday night. Utilities said they expected to have all service restored Sunday night. At 11 p.m., Gabrielle was 150 miles south-southeast of Cape Fear, N.C., and was heading northeast at 14 mph. Winds had increased to 60 mph, but the rainbands had moved offshore. Gabrielle came ashore Friday morning with 70-mph winds. Several tornadoes caused some minor damage, and floating docks and sailboats broke loose and were damaged. More than 11 inches of rain fell in some areas. Tropical storm warnings were dropped late Saturday for Florida and southern Georgia. Gale warnings extended north to Cape Hatteras, N.C. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED CONN. MAYOR INDICTED: Already jailed on federal child sex charges, Waterbury, Conn. Mayor Philip Giordano has now been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he enticed a child into a sexual relationship, according to published reports. grounds.” “Sean was great, really calm, not in my face,” Dawgert said about the R.H.D. who first asked him to remove the flag. “He made a point that it was not me versus him. The USC policy was simply working through him.” Sean Mc Greevey could not be reached for WORLD BRIEFS Paramilitary gunmen raid Colombian village BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (AP) - Members of a right-wing paramilitary group raided a Colombian village early Sunday and killed at least 11 people, authorities said. National Police spokeswoman Jenny Alvarado said as many as 15 people might have been executed in the early morning massacre near the township of Falan, some 74 miles west of the capital, Bogota. Fighters from the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, killed the villagers after accusing them of working with leftist guerrillas; Tolima Police Col. Ciro Chitiva said. Israelis, Palestinians argue over truce talks JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel and the Palestinians argued Sunday over conditions needed to begin truce talks, while Israeli tanks entered the West Bank city of Ramallah in a retaliatory raid, provoking a shootout that killed one Palestinian and one Israeli soldier. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said truce talks could begin only after two full days with no Palestinian attacks. But Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected that demand, saying the violence was caused by Israel’s incursions into Palestinian territory. A meeting between Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres that had been tentatively set for Sunday was called off after Sharon objected, saying opening truce talks now “would give Arafat legitimacy as a good guy.” President Bush called Sharon on Friday to urge him to begin the talks soon. U.S. officials think calming Israeli-Palestinian tensions is important to their efforts to enlist Arab states in an international anti-terrorism coalition following the attacks comment. Dawgert and others in the Resi dence Hall Association will soon rethink and possibly revise the policies in Carolina Community. But Dawgert says the policy that kept Gibson from hanging his flag is unlikely to change much, if at all. Gibson has the option to ap on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Editor sentenced to three years in prison CAIRO, EGYPT (AP)- The editor of a newspaper whose story on a monk’s alleged sex-and blackmail scheme sparked riots was convicted Sunday of under mining public security and sen tenced to three years in prison. In its ruling against Mamdouh Mahran, editor of the small - weekly Al-Nabaa, the court didn’t say whether the allega tions in the article were true, but it might issue a more compre hensive verdict later. Mahran, who was not in court Sunday, published a story in June claiming that a Coptic Orthodox monk had sex with women in a southern Egyptian monastery and then blackmailed them. The article, illustrated with blurred photographs, caused-an outcry. .The church condemned it, saying the man was no longer a monk and denying that any sex occurred inside the monastery. Hundreds of Copts demonstrated in Cairo and clashed with police. The Emergency State Security Court in Cairo was ringed by heavy security Sunday as it convicted Mahran of publishing material that undermined public security and inciting the public against Christian clerics. "IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED WEAPON AGAINST ELEPHANTS: A banned pesticide used by villagers in remote northeastern India was blamed Saturday for the death last month of 15 wild elephants. NO DANGER IN RADIO: A study by an international panel found no connection between electromagnetic emissions from Vatican Radio transmitters in a town outside Rome and leukemia rates in the area, Italy’s health minister said Saturday. peal to the SGSC (Student Gov ernment of USC), the peer board that handles such cases. But, according to Dawgert, a change doesn’t look promising. “It would be a long and arduous process,” he said. Red Cross Some donors not allowed to give CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 other, but there have been cas es when it has been transferred through a blood transfusion,” Mroch said. People born in the United Kingdom are not allowed to do - nate blood, and travelers who spent at least six months in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1996 are asked to “defer indefi nitely.” Rachel Moyle, a third-year USC student who lived in Eng land for three years, said, “I've given blood six times, but it was only lasf year at the Car olina-Clemson blood drive that they told me I couldn't donate ' because of a new policy.” “I'd love to be helping out, so it seems kind of ridiculous be cause I lived there six years ago,” Moyle said. Conditions at donation sites non olfio limil miwiKnn nf donors the Red Cross can accept. “If the lines are long, or if we ' can't handle more donors, we're trying to capture them by getting names and [phone] numbers to bring them back in," Mroch said. She said the staff tries to keep the lines from getting top long, but they sometimes work 15-hour days, and their safety is a concern. Mroch said she ... encourages potential donors to make an appointment to avoid a lengthy wait. “We try to collect around 2,000 to 3,000 units a week,” Mroch said. “But we have ac tually gone over 6,258 units in South Carolina since Tues day.” Students who have donated at the local Red Cross site on Bull Street have helped effect this increase. “We need that energy and enthusiasm that students al ways bring. People coming in to donate blood really motivate us,” Mroch said. -Brantley Busbee, a third year chemistry major, has giv en blood 11 times in the past three years. “The only time I've ever been turned away is for giving blood too frequently. The best way to avoid this is to set up an appointment with the Red Cross to give blood. Don't be discouraged if you can't give blood; encourage others who can give blood to go to the Red Cross. 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