Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICE REPORT •_ •- --V 1 Mil ill I I T atCr*-«JWFa*Sir;T These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Michael LaForgia. Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent ® Nonviolent Monday, Juno 28 ® ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE, 801 LINCOLN ST. Reporting officer D. Pardue backed his police cruiser into a rock pile while responding to meet with city police. The re sult was a two-inch cut and some scratches just above the exhaust pipe on the rear bumper. ® ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, COKER LIFE SCIENCES CENTER, 715 SUMTER ST. The complainant said someone made nine harass ing phone calls to the USC,School of Pharmacy and PoiSon Control hotline in two days. The reporting officer gave the complainant a pamphlet and completed an in vestigative report. Reporting offi cers: D. Pardue and J. Widdifield. Tuesday, June 29 Q SIMPLE POSSESSION OF MARI JUANA, ALTERED S.C. DRIVER'S LI CENSE, 1200 BLOCK WHALEY ST. Reporting Officer M.L. Gooding saw a white Buick LeSabre head ing southbound on Pickens Street. The car appeared to have some thing dragging from under the front bumper and was operating erratically, passing over the cen ter line several times. The car stopped at Main and Whaley streets, and Gooding approached. He found Ryan Andrews in the driver’s seat, and it appeared Andrews had been smoking mar ijuana. He had glassy, bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils. Gooding asked permission to search the car, but the subject refused and produced a bag of about 2.6 grams of a green, leafy substance be lieved to be marijuana. Gooding also found an altered S.C. driver’s license in Andrews’ pocket. Further search of the car turned up another 1.0 grams of marijua na and another altered S.C. dri ver’s license. Andrews was ar rested, his car was towed to City Garage and the evidence was placed in a locker. Reporting offi cers: M.L Gooding and A.L. Mitchell. ® LARCENY OF MONEY, 2 MED ICAL PARK (NOT ON MAP) The vie tim said someone stole $57 from a lockbox in a filing cabinet after she accidentally left the keys in the cabinet’s lock overnight. The keys were also missing. The in vestigation continues. Reporting officer: M. Denard. v - Kerry taps Edwards, looks to invigorate Democratic ticket BY RON FOURNIER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose former rival John Edwards as his running mate, selecting the smooth-talk ing Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes of injecting vigor and small-town appeal into the Democratic tick et. “I trust that met with your ap proval,” Kerry told a boisterous crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh who shouted their consent while waving hot-off-the presses “Kerry-Edwards” plac ards. The two senators — Kerry of Massachusetts and Edwards of North Carolina — sealed their political marriage during a 15 minute, early-morning telephone conversation that papered over their differences in style and sub stance. “I was humbled by his offer,” Edwards said in a statement, “and thrilled to accept it.” Kerry, 60, a decorated Vietnam veteran whom critics call aloof, calculated that his tick et didn’t need foreign policy heft as much as a bit of pizazz and the quick embrace of party activists who had rallied behind Edwards’ stealth campaign for the No. 2 slot. Edwards, 51, who made a for tune as a trial lawyer before jumping into politics in the 1990s as a self-styled champion for the common man, edged out several Washington veterans under con sideration, including Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri and Sen. Bob Graham of Florida. Along with Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a veteran of state poli tics with a low national profile, they were finalists in a process that began four months ago with a list of about 25 candidates. In March, after defeating Gephardt, Graham, Edwards and several others in the Democratic primaries, Kerry told his vice presidential search team to help him find a political soul mate who would be “ready at any minute” to assume the presiden cy. Republicans on Tuesday ques tioned whether Edwards met ei ther standard. While President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney politely welcomed Edwards to a “spirited race,” their allies at the Republican National Committee issued a thick press release that called the first-term senator a politi cally inexperienced phony who is beholden to the trial-lawyer lobby. Disingenuous, unaccom plished liberal,” the RNC said. Edwards’ relative lack of for eign policy work — he is a mem ber of the Senate Intelligence Committee —could be an issue in a campaign shadowed by war, strategists in both parties said. Privately, Bush advisers ac knowledged that Edwards has the capacity to be formidable foe, helping Kerry to broaden the electoral map and sharpen his economic message. Edwards entered the Senate and public life in 1998 after up setting Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth. The son of a mill work er, Edwards worked his way through college sweeping floors before converting his law degree into a multimillion-dollar prac tice specializing in medical mal practice and product liability judgments. He jumped early into a Democratic nomination fight filled with more seasoned politi cians, including Kerry, who questioned Edwards’ decision to seek the presidency so early in his political career. In January, Kerry mocked Edwards’ lack of international or military experi ence. “When I came back from Vietnam in 1969,” Kerry said, “I don’t know if John Edwards was out of diapers then.” Mindful that Republicans will seize on the seasoning issue, Kerry assured supporters Tuesday, “John Edwards is ready for this job. He is ready for this job.” PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS John Kerry picked John Edwards to be his running mate.