February 8, 2012

Workers stand in line for hours for BMW jobs (AUDIO)

In hopes of getting a job, hundreds of people attended a job fair for BMW Wednesday. The German automaker near Greer wants to fill 500 full-time jobs over the next few months. The job fair was held at the Greenville One Stop office and was conducted by MAU Workforce. Many of the job seekers stood in line for more than three hours in the 96-degree heat, as the line of about 500 applicants stretched around the building.

This is what some of them had to say:

AUDIO: BMW potential employee (:13)

AUDIO: BMW potential employee (:11)

AUDIO: BMW potential employees (:10)

Another BMW job fair will be held next Wednesday at the Tyger River Campus of Spartanburg Community College in Duncan.

Taser suit against North Charleston dismissed

A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit against North Charleston police for the 2006 death of a man who was tasered repeatedly. In 2006, Kip Darnell Black died after North Charleston police reportedly used up to 10 jolts from their taser gun to stop what they called his erratic behavior. Authorities say Black was high on cocaine at the time, and was caught stripping off his clothes, according to the Post and Courier. Police say Black was a mentally impaired man.

After he died, his mother, Janie, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of North Charleston, the police department, and four officers involved in Black’s death. Now, nearly four years after the death, U.S. Circuit Judge Weston Houck granted a defense motion to toss out the suit after the mother did not press the case, according to the paper. The suit was dismissed without prejudice, which means it can be refiled at a later date.

Charleston boy still missing, mother speaks (AUDIO)

It’s a domestic situation gone bad as law enforcement agencies continue to search for a missing two-year-old boy in Charleston.

“I’m trying to find out where he is at. I can’t find him,” says Shaneka Washington, the mother who is missing her 2-year-old son, Rodricus Williams. Washington says a woman, whose name is not given, was suppose to meet her with Williams last night. That never happened.

She was supposed to meet me in North Charleston. Whenever she called back she said she was downtown at the Battery and that she don’t (sic) know where she’s at. She asked us to come there to her because she can’t get to where we were at because she was lost.

Washington and the boy’s father, Roger Williams, have been in a custody battle. The father has reportedly had the boy for the past two months. This arrangement between the woman and Washington was supposed to give Rodricus Williams back to the mother. The search continues for the missing boy, but law enforcement agencies have called off the search along the Battery after initial reports said the boy had fallen off the Battery wall. Officials say there are no signs of that happening.

AUDIO: Full report with mother’s comments (1:11)

Rock Hill arrests Peeping Tom (AUDIO)

In Rock Hill, a woman captures on video the man who has been spying on her and her children in the shower. WRHI’s Andrew Kiel brings us the story.

Listen to Andrew’s report

Green Party candidate says door is open for him in US Senate race (AUDIO)

Clements at SC Supreme Court

A third-party candidate says he now has a real shot at the race for U.S. Senate. Environmentalist Tom Clements is running as a Green Party Candidate against incumbent Jim DeMint.  Clements says issues with Democratic candidates have opened a big door for him.

Candidate Alvin Greene faces criminal charges for allegedly showing pornographic images to a USC student, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating how Greene came up with the $10,440 he paid to get his name on the ballot.  Democrat Linda Ketner considered running independently, but this week announced there is not enough time left to engage a successful petition campaign.

Clements jokes that what his campaign really needs is a big political scandal, considering the recent nature of South Carolina politics.

AUDIO: Clements on Senate race (1:25)

Clements says the Green party is really on the grow these days, nationwide. He says he’s a dead serious candidate, and he knows he has a chance at the prize.

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