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Attorneys seek new trial for death row inmate

February 22, 2010 By

The new attorneys for a federal death row inmate convicted of killing an Horry County woman presented arguments Monday for a new trial for their client.

The new defense team representing federal death row inmate Chadrick  Fulks began presenting arguments in federal court in Columbia Monday asserting that Fulks deserves a new trial on the grounds that his original lawyers were ineffective and he would have fared better if his case would have gone to trial rather than pleading guilty. Fulks pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering Alice Donovan of Galivants Ferry in 2002. Fulks and co-defendant Branden Basham were convicted of killing Donovan during a two-week crime spree after they escaped from a Kentucky jail in 2002. Fulks appeared at the hearings via video conferencing from federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. Information provided by Fulks led to the discovery of Donovan’s remains in July 2009 in a wooded area near the town of Longs.

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House Committee begins to work through budget

February 22, 2010 By

Abortions would not be covered for any reason by South Carolina’s health insurance plan under a budget proposal approved by the House Ways and Means Committee Monday. State Rep. Rex Rice of Easley said his measure was necessary because the state should not be covering the cost.

I just feel like the state should not be paying for abortions.  I feel like those lives are created by God and I don’t think the state should be intervening on his missions.

The measure was adopted as the House Ways and Means Committee began debating a $5.3 billion budget.

The Ways and Means Committee also passed provisions that would allow furloughs for state workers.

Filed Under: Health & Medicine, Legislature, News

New gun laws take effect in SC national parks

February 22, 2010 By

President Obama signed a bill last May to allow licensed gun owners to bring firearms into national parks, if state law allows it. Fort Sumter National Monument Superintendent Bob Dodson says for the past 80 years the National Park Service has had a “blanket approach” to weapons in parks where guns were not allowed unless they were stored away and locked. Dodson says the time has come to change the laws.

“It basically means that any visitor to a national park unit applies their rules on holding a weapon based on local state law. Here for South Carolina, that means they can come in to federal national parks if they have a proper permit,” says Dodson. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment & Conservation, News, Politics & Government

Grand Strand transportation planners look ahead 25 years

February 22, 2010 By

A planning group in the Grand Strand is holding public meetings this week to discuss the area’s transportation plan for the next 25 years. The Grand Strand Area Transportation Study is holding the meetings to discuss transportation needs along the Grand Strand, which stretches about 60 miles from Georgetown to the North Carolina state line.

The plan was last revised about five years ago because federal regulations require there to be updates to the plan every five years, according to WMBF in Myrtle Beach. Planners hope to reveal a transportation plan, including highways, public transit, and bicycle and pedestrians, that will look ahead to the next 25 years. The Long Range Transportation Plan is required in order to receive federal funding for the road projects. The meetings are open to the public.

Filed Under: News, Transportation

Aiken County woman sentenced in murder for hire plot

February 22, 2010 By

An Aiken county woman has been sentenced in federal court to seven years, three months in prison in a murder for hire plot. 42 year old Salley native Judy Dickson was sentenced to 87 months behind bars for hiring a man to murder her estranged husband and son last year. In May 2009. Dickson agreed to pay her boyfriend David Hutto to set on fire the Shallotte, North Carolina home of her estranged husband Raymond Dickson and his adult son Ryan Dickson while the two slept inside. Dickson told Hutto that she was concerned about her divorce settlement and wanted to collect the proceeds from the elder Dickson’s life insurance policy. Hutto told Judy Dickson  he would carry out the plan, but warned Raymond Dickson instead. Hutto then taped phones calls he made to his girlfriend in which they discussed plans to  kill  the Dicksons by stuffing pine straw in the crawl space of their home and igniting it with gasoline. Hutto turned over the tapes to the FBI.

Filed Under: Crime & Courts, News
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