Pioneer and Scientist, Dr. Clemmie E. Webber Passed Away at Age 99

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Dr. Clemmie Webber, honored mother and educator, dies at 99

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Dr. Clemmie Webber raises her hands in celebration at the ceremony announcing the naming of Boulevard Street from its intersection with U.S. Highway 21 to its intersection with S.C. Highway 33 as Webber Boulevard. Seated next to her is state Rep. Jerry Govan.

Scientist, educator, author, mentor, pioneer, community leader, wife and mother. Dr. Clemmie Embly Webber lived a full life, sharing it with the community through her service. It was a life that came to an end Wednesday. She was 99.

“She is just what Orangeburg is about,” Orangeburg historian Richard Reid said. “She had the desire to make Orangeburg a better place through her works and her involvement in the community.

“She was about helping one another and bringing about the goodness that is in our community.”

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Steel processing company investing $35M, creating 40 jobs in Union County

A Spanish steel processing company announced Wednesday it will invest $50 million over the next decade to build a production plant in Union County and create 65 jobs.

Gonvarri Steel Services, a subsidiary of Spain-based BMW supplier Gestamp Corp., said it will initially invest $35 million and create 40 jobs, with another $15 million and 25 jobs expected within 10 years.

The company will set up shop next to its parent-company's operation on LSP Road and supply it with up to 100,000 tons of processed steel products annually. The facility is expected to be in operation by July 2013.

Horry County notebook | Applications for police chief being accepted

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The search is on for the next permanent chief of the Horry County Police Department.

Thresla Dewitt, with the county’s human resources department, said the ad was posted Monday on the county’s website.

Dewitt was unsure Thursday just how many applications had been received, as all must be submitted electronically.

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The posting lists the salary range as $69,947 to $104,920. All applicants must have a minimum of 10 years of law enforcement experience.

The posting closes on Aug. 23.

Another unknown at this point is whether interim Chief Saundra Rhodes has thrown her name into the fold.

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1,500 jobs available at Continental Tire site

SUMTER, SC (WIS) -Get your resumes together, more than 1,500 jobs are now available at Continental Tire in Sumter County.

Construction is moving right along on the new plant, and it will be completed by the end of the year.

On Friday, the automotive supplier announced it's ready to hire 60 people.

Craig Baartman is project manager and is looking for the new employees.

"This is a game-changer," Baartman said of the new facility. "We believe this is a game-changer for Sumter."

The company is currently looking for skilled workers in engineering and management.

Baartman expects the new 1 million square foot site will bring growth to Highway 521.

"It will attract business, people, tourists," Baartman said.

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Goose Creek High graduate killed in Afghanistan

Army Pfc. Julian L. Colvin. Source: Facebook

GOOSE CREEK, SC (WCSC) - The U.S. Department of Defense announced that a graduate of Goose Creek High School died last week while on dismounted patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Army Pfc. Julian L. Colvin, 21, died July 22 after suffering wounds from an enemy improvised explosive device. Colvin, originally from Birmingham, Alabama, moved to Goose Creek in 2008.

According to a former teacher of Colvin's at Goose Creek High School, he graduated from the school in 2010.

 

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Updated: Gunwoman sought in Orangeburg shooting

Police are looking for a female who reportedly walked up to a stranger and shot him.

 

The suspect has been described as an approximately 25-year-old black female standing about 5 feet 8 inches tall. She is said to be wearing a yellow shirt with blue and had long burgundy and black hair.

According to police, the woman walked up to a man at the dumpster at the  John C. Calhoun Drive Super 8 motel around midday Thursday and shot him.

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Perdue signs bill that requires CPR training

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina high school students will be required to learn CPR and the Heimlich maneuver before earning their diplomas starting in 2015.

Gov. Beverly Perdue signed into law Thursday a bill that requires students to show proficiency in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training before graduation. She says it's a way to save lives.

SC Sites Among Federal Synthetic Drug Sweep

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Sites in Charleston and Greenville are among a federal synthetic drug crackdown in 30 states that targeted the designer drugs bath salts and K2.

The US Justice Department says more than 90 people were arrested and investigators found 19 million packets of synthetic drugs and seized more than $36 million in cash during "Operation Log Jam".

The busts happened in 109 cities across the country. Investigators have not released specific details about what was seized during the busts in Charleston and Greenville.

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Cobb-Hunter said she is encouraging people to run for the board.

SCSU board chair says it's business as usual

A lack of legislative consensus means South Carolina State University trustees will continue business as usual, acting Chairman Dr. John Corbitt said.

“We have kept working hard. We are very happy about the new interim president and everyone has continued to function,” Corbitt said. “It has had no effect on our board.

“We will continue to do our job as we always have. We have not tried to spend any time on what the Legislature is doing with the university. That’s not our job.”

Legislation designed to restructure the board died when a General Assembly conference committee failed to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of a bill. The House sought a more sweeping change, including removing all sitting trustees and placing S.C. State under the direction of a temporary board.

Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, said the introduction of new legislation next year depends on what happens in the interim.

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SC State audit shows fund misuse, overpayments, nepotism

With more than $4 million in the hole and lingering questions over money surrounding the James Clyburn Transportation Center, another audit has surfaced at SC State University. 

The Clyburn Transportation Center is nearly 15 years behind schedule and one building is all they have to show for the $80 million research center.

State auditors the center may never be finished.

"If these types of issues aren't corrected, you might end up in a situation where the university is debarred from a particular grant," said former SC State internal investigator and former head of SLED Reggie Lloyd.

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SC Sheriffs have power to fire employees at will

Nearly two years ago Deputy Tick Wilson found out he lost his job with Kershaw County from a voice mail.

It said: "Tick - 'Tick, I no longer wish to employ you. Turn your stuff in."

The call was similar to the one his friend and department veteran Jim Miller got that same June night.  

It was the day after the election and Miller said he had told the Kershaw County Sheriff that he was not voting for the man the Sheriff was hoping would be elected to succeed him.

"He told me 'Jim, this is the Sheriff and I no longer need your services.' I said 'yes sir', and he says 'you can turn your car in tomorrow. But I turned it in that night," said Miller.

Miller said he wasn't surprised. 

"Because that's the way business is done sometimes, for the pleasure of the Sheriff," he said.  

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New Mortgage Limit May Set Buyers Back 

FOR most potential buyers, the impending change in mortgage limits is just another obscure wrinkle in federal policy. But for some New Yorkers, it could mean the difference between buying and not buying a new home.
On Oct. 1, when the limit on federally guaranteed loans drops to $625,500 from the current level of $729,750, hundreds of buyers in the city and nearby suburbs will either have to come up with larger down payments to stay under the new limit or face the prospect of applying for jumbo loans — anything above $625,500 — which have higher interest rates.

Hospital Staff Found To Carry MRSA Superbug On Uniforms, Swipe Cards

A new study has demonstrated that potentially dangerous bacteria can be carried around healthcare facilities by hospital nurses and physicians. It has been discovered that 60% of the doctors' uniforms and 65% of nurses' in hospitals do just that. In the study, especially dangerous drug-resistant bacteria were found in 21 of the samples from nurses' uniforms and six samples from doctors' uniforms after 75 and 60 were examined respectively. Eight of the samples had methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which is becoming more and more resistant to current treatments.

Researchers in Israel swabbed nurses' and physicians' uniforms and found potentially dangerous bacteria on more than half of the clothing items after swab samples collected from three parts were analyzed (sleeve ends, pockets and abdominal area). 

U.S. Unemployment: Racing Toward The Bottom

While a Department of Education program embraces “a race to the top,” the nation's current stance toward our 14 million officially unemployed people represents nothing less than a race to the bottom. We are content to report, month after month, unemployment rates in excess of nine percent, to use questionable language to describe tepid performance, and to assuage ourselves with myths that the economy is in recovery because GDP growth is up. Imagine that one of our children came home from school with a report card that showed a drop from a C- to a D, and she reported her grades as “substantially unchanged.” She would, substantially, find her allowance cut, her study hours increased, her privileges restricted. But when high unemployment continues month after month, an unsatisfactory outcome in and of itself, we hear nonsense and platitudes. 

Jobless Rate Rise in Region

Jobless Rate Rise in Region

Area counties saw the largest spike in unemployment across the state for the month of July, placing them among South Carolina's top 10 for joblessness.

Calhoun County saw the largest unemployment rate increase in the state, with its rate increasing 4 percentage points to 16 percent, according to S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce figures released Friday.
The rate shattered a previous record high unemployment rate set in March of last year. The county ranks ninth among the state's 46 counties in unemployment.

Orangeburg County saw the second-largest spike in July, with its rate rising 2.4 percentage points to 17.7 percent. The county ranked fourth in joblessness in the state.  The unemployment rate for Orangeburg County is a near record. The county's rate hit 18.4 percent in September 2009.

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S.C.’s jobless: 'People around here, they're struggling'

In Orangeburg, nearly 1 in 5 are out of work

South Carolina’s jobless rate jumped to 10.9 percent in July, up nearly half a percentage point over June and the highest it has been all year.But if you’re jobless, particularly for the long-term jobless, the rate is 100 percent and holding — and people are frustrated.
“People around here, they’re struggling. People are stealing the manhole covers — it’s just that bad around here now,” said Purvis Richardson, 43, of Orangeburg, leaving the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce office here Friday afternoon with an updated resume in his hand.

“You got people running to these scrapyards, trying to sell anything, man. That’s why you see people tearing up $20,000 air-conditioner units for $50 worth of copper. It’s that bad,” said Richardson, who said he has not worked since 2009, when he lost his job of 10 years at a food-processing plant after “some bad product got out the door” and the blame fell to him.

Orangeburg County’s unemployment rate soared to 17.7 percent last month, according to figures released Friday, catapulting the county from 10th place to 4th place in the state’s unemployment sweepstakes, an honor nobody is trying to win. Only Marlboro, Allendale and Marion counties had higher rates, topping out at 20 percent.

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