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STATE
Protester fights for
security documents
COLUMBIA (AP)-A federal
judge says attorneys for a
protester arrested almost a year
ago may be allowed to use some
security documents detailing
President Bush’s visit.
U.S. District Judge Bristow
Marchant filed an order
Wednesday that gives the fed
eral government five days to
show him a reason the docu
ments should not be disclosed.
Marchant ordered U.S.
Attorney John Barton and the
Secret Service on Aug. 28 to de
liver all documents relating to
Bush’s visit in October so he
could review them and deter
mine if activist Brett Bursey
could use them in his defense.
NAACP continues
to support boycott
SPARTANBURG (AP) - The
South Carolina NAACP says it
will hold its annual convention
out of state again to honor the
civil rights group's boycott of
the Palmetto State.
The 2003 Convention and
Civil Rights Conference will be
held Oct. 9-12 in Charlotte, N.C.,
instead of Spartanburg because
the Confederate flag still flies
on South Carolina’s Capitol
grounds, said Dwight James,
executive director of the state
NAACP chapter.
NATION
West Nile cases on
the rise, CDC says
ATLANTA (AP) — The United
States is headed for another
record number of West Nile
cases this year, with the total
shooting up by more than a -
third in the past week alone,
the government said
Thursday.
Nationwide, 4,137 human
cases had been reported by
Thursday, just 19 shy of last
year’s total of 4,156, the Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention said.
Despite the high number of
infections, there have been far
fewer deaths. So far, 80 have
been reported; last year, 284
died from the virus.
Economy showing
signs of recovery
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite a
poor job market, the nation’s
long-stagnant economy again
showed signs of recovery in
August, according to a closely
watched economic report.
The Conference Board re
ported Thursday that its Index
of Leading Economic Indicators
rose 0.4 percent in August to
113.3, in line with analysts’ ex
pectations.
The index measures where
the overall U.S. economy is
headed in the next three to six
months.
WORLD
Britain repeals
anti-gay law
LONDON (AP) - A law
against “promotion” of homo
sexuality was removed from the
British statute books Thursday,
after more than a decade of gay
rights protests.
The law, which barred local
government councils from “pro
moting” homosexuality, was
the subject of protests from the
moment it was introduced un
der Conservative Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher in
1988.
It was devised to deal with
concerns over homosexual con
tent in sex education, but was
condemned by campaigners as
discriminatory.
Police arrest five
al-Qaida suspects
MADRID, SPAIN (AP) -
Police arrested five suspects
Thursday on orders of a
Spanish judge investigating
the al-Qaida terror network, a
day after he issued the first
known indictment against
Osama bin Laden for the Sept.
11 attacks.
The five men, whose arrest
was announced by the Interior
Ministry, were not among the
35 suspects indicted in the dra
matic order issued Wednesday
by Judge Baltasar Garzon.
Ebenezer Lutheran Church
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Contemporary New Life Worship Service:
Now on Sundays at 11:00 am
in the Chapel at 1301 Richland Street
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Traditional Worship: 8:30 am & 11:00 am, Sanctuary
Sunday Church School: 9:45 am- 10:45 am
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POLICE REPORT
.
Each number on
the map stands
fora 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
E] Violent
fj Nonviolent
Monday, Sept. 15
o MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, DIRT AND
GRAVEL PARKING LOT, PICKENS
AND WHALEY STREETS. The
victim said someone broke out
the driver’s side-rear window of
her car. Estimated damage: $50.
Reporting officer J.D. Rosier.
Tuesday, Sept. 16
O SIMPLE POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA, 1400 WHALEY ST.,
S-6 LOT. Reporting officer J.R.
Merrill saw three subjects,
Andrew Robert Henshaw,
Timothy Mark Taylor and Jesse
Edwin Tuten, sitting inside a car.
A fourth person was seen talking
to the occupants through both
the driver’s side and passenger’s
side alternately. Merrill said he
saw the front passenger ignite a
lighter for about five seconds on
two occasions, within 30 to 40
seconds of each other. Merrill
said that based on his experience
and training, he understood this
activity to be consistent with
smoking some form of drug.
Merrill said he pulled into the lot
and positioned his car behind the
subject’s car, turned on the car’s
blue lights and approached the
subject’s car on foot. Merrill said
as he approached the passenger
side window, which was rolled
down, he smelled burned
marijuana. Merrill said he
searched the car and found a
substance that he thought was
marijuana. Merrill said the
substance was about seven
grams. He also found a glass
bowl pipe and two packages of
rolling papers.
(3) MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL
PROPERTY, 701 ASSEMBLY ST.,
CAROLINA COLISEUM The
complainant said someone broke m
out a ticket office window and *
damaged the speaker and
microwave as well. Estimated
damage: $375. Reporting officer
J.M. Simmons.
Wednesday, Set. 17
© MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, PICKENS
AND WHEAT STREETS, GRAVEL
PARKING LOT. The victim said
someone broke out the drivers’
side rear vent window. The
victim said nothing was
missing. Estimated damage:
$350. Reporting officer: J.M.
Simmons.
© MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, SUMTER
AND CATAWBA STREETS, GRAVEL m
PARKING LOT. The victim said ^
someone broke out the driver’s
side-rear window. Estimated
damage: $2,500. Reporting officer
J.M. Simmons.
BRIEFLY
McKissick Museum
to display WWI art
The McKissick Museum will
display an exhibit of World War I
posters starting Sept. 21 and con
tinuing through Dec. 7. The ex
hibit includes 36 posters from na
tions around the world that por
tray significant themes and artis
tic trends of their time. It also in
cludes posters from USC’s Joseph
M. Bruccoli Great War Collection,
a collection established by USC
English professor Matthew J.
Bruccoli in honor of his father.
The exhibit is free and open to the
public.
USC to offer art
classes to children
USC’s art department will offer
art classes to children ages 6 to 17
on Friday afternoons, Sept. 26 to
Nov. 14. The classes will be taught
by graduate students in art edu
cation under the direction of Dr.
Minuette Floyd. Students can
choose from a variety of classes;
and artistic ability is not neces
sary. Registration deadline is
Wed., Sept. 24, and the cost is $65
per child and $55 for children of
USC faculty, staff, and students.
For more information or to regis
ter a child in the Young Artists
Workshop, call Floyd at (803)777
3137, or call the USC art depart
ment at (803)777-4236.
NSF will award 900
research fellowships
The National Science
Foundation will award approxi
mately 900 new Graduate
Research Fellowships this spring.
The three-year fellowships pro
vide stipends of $27,500 for 12
months and a cost-of-education al
lowance of $10,500 per tenure
year.
The fellowships are awarded to
students pursuing graduate study
programs leading to research
based master’s or doctoral degrees
in science, mathematics, and en
gineering. Application deadlines
are in November.
For more information, contact
the NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship Program at (866)353
0905 or nfsgrfp@orau.gov.
Yearly event features
Civil War re-enactors 4
The 6th Annual Symposium on
South Carolina Civil War History
will be held Saturday, Sept. 27, at
the South Carolina Archives and
History Center. The program will
feature Civil War re-enactors,
African-American history and
other presentations.
The program is all day followed
by a banquet featuring Harry
Pecorelli, an archaeologist with
the Hunley Recovery project.
For more information, visit the
event’s Web site at state.sc.us/sc
civilwar02.htm.
Isabel
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Pennsylvania.
Isabel’s top sustained wind
eased to nearly 90 mph after it hit
land, and it was expected to con
tinue weakening. Hurricane-force
wind — at least 74 mph — extend
ed up to 100 miles out from the cen
ter.
At 5 p.m. EDT, the center of
Isabel’s "very large eye” was over
North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound,
between the mainland and the
Outer Banks. It was accelerating
northwest at around 24 mph, up
from 14 mph as it approached the
coast 24 hours earlier.
Isabel was expected to move
north across Virginia and cut
through western Pennsylvania
and western New York state be
fore dissipating in Canada by
Saturday.
Rhonda Davis, whose parents
had to be airlifted from their home
in 1999 when Floyd killed 56 peo
ple, said she was not convinced
Isabel would leave eastern North
Carolina unscathed.
"When something like this hap
pens, I don’t care what it is, you
prepare for the worst,” she said.
"I don’t think it’s going to be big
ger than Floyd, but I think it’s go
ing to be larger than what people
think.”
President Bush granted North
Carolina Gov. Mike Easley’s re
quest for a federal disaster decla
ration, ordering federal aid to the
state. In anticipation of flooding
and wind damage, Pennsylvania
Gov. Ed Rendell issued a statewide
"disaster emergency” declaration.
The governors of West Virginia,
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware
had earlier declared emergencies,
and the governor of New Jersey
planned a declaration Thursday.
Well over 1,500 flights were can
celed at airports in the major east- M
ern cities, said David Stempler, ™
president of the Air Travelers
Association. As the storm moved
northward, all flights to and from
the Washington metropolitan
area’s airports were likely to be
canceled, he said.
The federal government shut
down in Washington. Amtrak
halted service south of
Washington, and the Washington
area Metro system shut down all
subway and bus service.
Miss America pageant organiz
ers went ahead with the plans for
their annual parade Friday night
in Atlantic City, N.J., hoping the
boardwalk would escape damage.
For many, the hurricane’s pass- m
ing was merely a sightseeing ^
event.
"For me, this is just like anoth
er little rainstorm, but you take
what you can get,” storm chaser
Warren Faidley said as he video
taped the frothy, 15-foot swells on
Atlantic Beach, N.C.
He was impressed that in the
middle of the hurricane, he was
able to get a hot sausage biscuit at
a pier right on the beach.
Students
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than 100 mph when it hit North
Carolina. Had it hit South
Carolina, it might have had the ca
pauimy iu lurce
schools and busi
nesses to close as
far inland as
Columbia.
But, some
stifdents wor
ried that it
might have
uuuwu o
damper on more than just a day
or two at work.
Matt Bell, a first-year electrical
engineering student, considered
the implications of a hurricane on
the Saturday football game against
Alabama. “Thank God I’m not go
ing to miss the game Saturday,” he
said, “because, if you remember
two years ago, Sept. 11 came and
they canceled our football game
and they switched us to Wofford.
Ick,” he said.
“Plus,” he added, “it would ^
nave ueen
kind of a
headache
missing class.”
Alex Keys, a
first-year edu
cation student,
was glad the
hurricane
uuaacu me
state.
“Last year, it rained all the
time,” he said.
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“Missing classes is
definitely a plus. I could
use a little time to catch
up on my reading.”
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