Jury selection request denied
PICKENS, S.C. --- A judge has denied a request that jurors be chosen from another area in the trial of a convicted sex offender charged with killing a 20-year-old Clemson University student.
The Greenville News reported that Judge Edward Miller denied the motion by Jerry Buck Inman's attorneys during a hearing in Pickens County on Thursday.
High gas prices felt in budget
COLUMBIA --- The House approved a final version of the state's $7 billion budget Thursday that falls short in money for getting children to school.
With diesel fuel prices above $4 a gallon, the state will probably need more money than it budgeted in the fiscal year that begins July 1 to keep school bus tanks filled for the entire school year.
Schools settle sex abuse case
BEAUFORT, S.C. --- Beaufort County educators have agreed to pay more than $500,000 to settle a lawsuit from a student who claimed to have been sexually abused by a former music teacher.
Philip Underwood-Sheppard was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2003 for molesting at least nine students.
-- From wire reports
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