Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICE REPORT These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Emma Ritch. Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS [1 Violent © Nonviolent Friday, Oct. 18 ® LARCENY OF PAYROLL CHECK, SCHOOL OF NURSING, 1601 GREENE ST. The Payroll Department said on Nov. 5 that a payroll check was removed from a desk sometime between that day and Oct. 18. It had been made out to Tiffany Infinger. Reporting officer: A.I. Jones. Friday, Oct. 25 ® LARCENY OF ROOSTER STATUE, 11TH FLOOR OF CAROLINA PLAZA, 937 ASSEMBLY ST. Katherine Leith said someone took her 12-inch gray rooster statue from the lobby. Estimated value: $35. Reporting officer: G. Cox. Friday, Nov. 1 ® LARCENY OF DEBIT AND CREDIT CARDS, BLATTP.E. CENTER, 1328 WHEAT ST. Jason Evan Hodges said someone took his federal credit union Visa check card and a MasterCard. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. Saturday, Nov. 2 O ASSAULT AND BATTERY, WILLIAMS-BRICE STADIUM,1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD. (OFF MAP) Stevae Wayne Weible said, while working security for Event Services, Roger Wilson grabbed him by the throat and verbally threatened him. Wilson is a CBS cameraman. Reporting officers: B. Baker, J.M. Simmons. Sunday, Nov. 3 ® LARCENY OF HUBCAPS, S-17 LOT, 1400 WHEAT ST. Marcus Alexander said someone took four silver chrome-plated hubcaps from his vehicle. Estimated value: $40. Reporting officer: N. Dehaai. Monday, Nov. 4 O LARCENY OF MONEY, NATIONAL ADVOCACY CENTER,1620 PENDLETON ST. Lisa Wyatt said someone took $20 from her jacket pocket. Wyatt said the room was secured, but she called maintenance to check her remote control. Reporting officer: J. A. Henry Tuesday, Nov. 5 O MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, HARASSMENT, ROOF-ACCESS DOOR AT 600 MAIN ST. Tom Buchheit said someone wrote on the wall with a marker. Custodial services was notified. A second victim said the same person had been harassing her. An investigation continues. N. Dehaai. ® DRIVING LEFT OF CENTER, NO DRIVER'S LICENSE, 600 BLOCK OF BULL STREET Reporting officer D. Pardue said Triquic Lequam Miller drove left of center and had no driver's license. Miller was arrested and taken to the Richland County Detention Center. Wednesday, Nov. 6 O HIT AND RUN, PENDLETON - ■ GARAGE, LEVEL 1-A Jodale P. Fails' vehicle was struck by an unknown vehicle, causing damage to the left rear. Reporting officer: J. D. Rosier. ® SUSPICIOUS SUBSTANCE, CAROLINA PLAZA, 937 ASSEMBLY ST. Andrew J. Chishom said Rosemary P. Peck came to him with a powdery white substance in a plastic bag. Chishom manipulated the substance and discovered a small straw in the bag. Peck made a statement to the police. The substance was taken as evidence. Reporting officer: J. D. Rosier. ® ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE, WILLIAMS-BRICE STADIUM, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD. (OFF MAP) Wesley Corbert Cox said he struck the southeast ramp while attempting to drive under it. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. ® SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, BATES HOUSE, 1423 WHALEY ST. Craig Owellet said he woke up and found a white male in a white T shirt, black shorts and red shoes standing in his room. Owellet said the man did not take anything; he just left. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels. Thursday, Nov. 7 © DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, DISREGARDING TRAFFIC SIGNAL, SIMPLE POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, 1001 HARDEN ST. Reporting officer J.D. Patterson saw Adrin Neal Doran II drving at a high speed. The officer tried to stop him, but Doran ran a red light and drove half a mile before stopping. The officer smelled alcohol on Doran. Doran was slurring and had bloodshot eyes. Doran failed several field sobriety tests, and he was arrested. In the vehicle, police found a hand-rolled cigarette containing a substance thought to be marijuana. The officer also noticed blue paint and dents on the vehicle. Doran refused a Datamaster test, so his driver’s license was taken. STATE Woman wins HIV misdiagnosis suit COLUMBIA (AP) - A woman who said Palmetto Health Richland Hospital misdiagnosed her with the virus that causes AIDS has been awarded $1.1 mil lion by a Richland County jury. The hospital has asked the judge to reduce the award to $250,000 under a state law that caps damages against public in stitutions. The hospital, now owned by a nonprofit corporation, was gov ernment-funded when Melinda Medlin, 41, was diagnosed with HIV in 1994. She was eight months pregnant. Medlin said she had no symp toms of the disease and that an other test in 1998 by a different laboratory confirmed she had been misdiagnosed. She took medications, includ ing AZT, to combat the “loath some and dreaded” disease, her lawsuit said. The suit also said her condition was reported to one or more federal agencies. Medlin said she suffered “ex treme depression, emotional dis tress, anxiety, fear and other re lated trauma” because of the mis diagnosis. Political ads obscure issues, activists say COLUMBIA (AP) - Record amounts of money spent on polit ical advertising in South Carolina obscures the issues and hurts democracy, political activists say. The League of Women Voters of South Carolina, the South Carolina Progressive Network and the South Carolina Voters for Clean Elections are working together to promote legislation that would reduce the influence of money on elections. “Unless we do something to address the soaring cost of polit ical campaigns, we’ll be left with no real competition in our elec tions because so few people can afford to run,” said Laurel Suggs, president of the state League of Women Voters. A record $11 million was spent on political commercials in South Carolina this year, Suggs said. “Television is what drives the chase for special interest mon ey,” Suggs said. “This means that big money, not average citi zens, is determining who wins elections.” NATION HIV tests will give speedier results WASHINGTON (AP) - People - will soon be able to learn before leaving the doctor's office if they're infected with HIV. Federal scientists announced on Thursday the Food and Drug Administration has approved a 20-minute HIV test that experts say is so easy to use it will great ly cut the number of people who unknowingly carry and spread the disease. A competing version has been - sold since the mid-1990s, but it is difficult to use. Routine HIV tests take up to two weeks to pro vide results - and at least 8,000 people a year who test positive at public clinics never return to get the news. The new OraQuick test should slash that number and ' encourage even more of the al most quarter-million Americans who don't know they're infected to seek testing, scientists said. OraQuick at first will be available only in hospitals and large health clinics because of a law that restricts who can use ' certain types of medical tests. Sniper suspects to be tried in Va. first WASHINGTON (AP) - The two suspects in the sniper spree that terrorized the Washington area last month will first stand trial in Virginia, a state with strong death penalty laws and a record of carrying out executions. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday that John Allen Muhammad, 4lJ and John Lee Malvo, 17, will be tried separately. Both face capi tal murder and other charges. A Sept. 21 killing in Atlanta has also been linked to the pair. Eighteen shootings are linked so far to Muhammad and Malvo by police across the country. Thirteen people were killed. Ashcroft said the strength of the evidence in the Virginia cas es and the state's tough death penalty laws gave it the edge over Maryland or the federal sys tem in bringing “swift and sure” justice in the sniper shootings. Muhammad will be tried for the Oct. 9 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Md., who was shot in Manassas, Va. • WORLD France, U.S. agree on Iraq resolution UNITED NATIONS (AP)-The United States and France reached agreement Thursday on a new Security Council res olution on Iraq, removing a key hurdle toward passage of the U.S.-drafted plan for tough new weapons inspections. Confident of winning ap proval, the United States re vised its final document to get Russia and others on board and send a united message to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A vote on the resolution was scheduled for Friday morning. President Bush had earlier called for a Friday vote, calling Saddam “a real threat” and declaring that “it's now time for the world to come together and disarm him.” According to French diplo mats, the United States agreed to change wording in a key pro vision that would declare Iraq in -‘•‘material breach” of its U.N. obligations. The change con cerns France, Russia, Syria and others that the original wording would have let the United States determine on its own whether Iraq had committed an infrac tion. Such a determination, France and Russia feared, would have triggered an attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Tree winy wnaie finds new home - HALSA, NORWAY (AP) - From his new home in a tran quil Norwegian bay, Keiko the killer whale has what his friends say is an ideal place to live: peace and quiet, human care and ample opportunity to meet wild orcas. . The six-ton orca, who gained fame in the “Free Willy” movies, was led Thursday from the Skaalvik fjord, where he turned up in early September, to the nearby but quieter Taknes Bay. “Welcome to Taknes,” Colin Baird,36, Keiko’s Canadian train er, said in Norwegian, reading a sign painted by some of the 10 res idents who turned out to wel come their new neighbor. They also painted an orca lying on its back. Baird and Norwegian fishery officials spent weeks seeking the perfect winter home for the orca before settling on the bay, BRIEFLY Journalism school gets $35,000 gift A Columbia-based advertis ing, marketing and communi cations company announced a $35,000 contribution to the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The contribution from Newman, Saylor and Gregory will help fund a renovated suite of rooms in the Carolina Coliseum that will have modern equipment for preparing entries for such events as the annual Bateman and ad team competi tions. USC students will have space to store research materi als; areas for planning, graphics and writing; and meeting and presentation rooms. The donation honors Ralph Gregory, a founding member of the firm and South Carolina ad vertising and public relations professional. Gregory retired as chairman of the firm in the spring of 2002. The agency will donate $25,000 over the next five years. Lee Bussell, president of the firm and alumnus of USC, and Van Newman, another founder of the firm who is an adjunct fac ulty member of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will each do nate an additional $5,000. Athletes to collect food at Ark. game USC athletes will collect non perishable food donations at Saturday’s football game against the Arkansas Razorbacks for Harvest Hope Food Bank. Collection barrels will be set up s a ■ at all entrances of Williams Brice Stadium. Harvest Hope is asking for canned hams, stuff ing mix, dressing mix, macaroni and cheese, combread mix, rice, gravy mix, canned green beans, canned yams and sweet pota toes. Saturday’s collection will kick off the USC athletes’ week long food drive. Team Gamecock, the USC athlete community service group, will continue to collect food in Midlands’ neighborhoods Nov.9 through Nov. 15. The food dona tions will help families during Thanksgiving and upcoming winter months. Oxfam to hold Hunger Banquet Oxfam will hold the 10th an nual Hunger Banquet on Nov. 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Capstone Conference Center. The USC’s branch of Oxfam is reaching out to students and the Columbia community to at tend the banquet in order to learn about unequal distribu tion of food in society, including Columbia. Oxfam is an interna tional organization that strives to end world hunger. This nonprofit program sup ports communities in food secu rity, health, nutrition and demo cratic development, with an em phasis on working with women. There are more than 12 Oxfam organizations around the world. Tickets for USC students are $3, and they are $5 for nonstu dents. Tickets may be purchased in advance in the Community Service Office or on the night of the banquet. All proceeds go to Oxfam. r-1 Let your voice be heard. Send an e-mail to gamecockviewpoints@hotmail.com. I