This Just In
Morning news roundup for May 23, 2013
By Corey Hutchins | Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:39 am
According to The Greenville News , Upstate South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy “tapped into his previous career as a federal prosecutor Wednesday in challenging an Internal Revenue Service official’s refusal to answer questions about her office’s targeting of conservative organizations for special scrutiny.”
Beginning Memorial Day, Encounters: U.F.O. Experience, a UFO museum in Myrtle Beach, will be open seven days a week, a PR firm representing the new attraction tells us. Encounters features "seven galleries filled with more than 200 original and replica artifacts," we're told. "Displays include materials left by early man as supporting evidence of their alien encounters, and an exploration of military involvement with Roswell and Area 51. Visitors can view videos of UFO sightings from around the world, and listen to actual 9-1-1 calls made by people reporting sightings and alien abductions."
Remember that time Free Times staffers got high from synthetic marijuana and wrote about it? Well that was a couple years ago, back when K2, Spice and other forms of the product were under-the-radar. You could get them down at the local bodega. But today, according to The Charleston Post & Courier , “Three Charleston area merchants have been indicted on federal drug charges as part of a nationwide crackdown on synthetic marijuana, a designer drug linked to bizarre behavior and health problems.”
This year a bill to strengthen the state's Freedom of Information Act died – again. One of the things it would have done is end public bodies charging ridiculous fees for open records. You know, like this nearly $30,000 charge for public documents Fairfield County is trying to charge WIS for emails relating to a councilman there.
South Carolinians tend to love 'em some Walmarts. But, according to the New York Daily News , “A South Carolina computer expert defrauded Wal-Mart out of $624,000 through a sophisticated three-year DVD and pirate software scam, police said.” The man, it turns out, “was arrested by chance in April after he accidentally left his storage unit door open and a worker found piles of fake discs, driver’s licenses and pre-paid gift cards.”
A controversial proposal to give tax breaks to families whose kids go to private schools has died again. “After nearly three hours of debate, the Senate voted 23-18 to reject the proposal, which supporters have pushed for a decade with little success,” The State reports. This year, Republicans said the proposal had its best chance yet of passing the Senate. A new group of conservative GOP freshman put the bill within “striking distance” of winning, state Sen. Greg Gregory, R-Lancaster, said before the vote. However, nine Republicans voted with the Senate’s minority-party Democrats to defeat the proposal.”
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