By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Happy Friday! Enjoy the fall weather this weekend!
“Every time someone dies, the world is less. That includes people in the Department of Corrections who have a right to live and go home.” - Prosecutor Barney Giese during his closing statement yesterday.
Inmate Larry White was found guilty at the Lee County Courthouse in Bishopville, pictured in December 2023. (File photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)
By Skylar Laird
A Lee County jury found an inmate guilty of participating in a mob that killed three people during the nation’s bloodiest prison riot in a quarter-century. Perhaps surprisingly, Larry White testified in his own defense. Judge for yourself whether he helped himself at all. For example, he admitted stabbing at least one of the rival gang members who died (and enjoying it), just fewer times than prosecutors said.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announces a $71.5 million grant for PPL Electric Utilities to rebuild a Pennsylvania transmission line. (Photo by Peter Hall/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
By Peter Hall with the Pennsylvania Capital-Star
A project to wring more capacity out of existing power lines will help utilities improve reliability and affordability for customers, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said yesterday. The Department of Energy is poised to spend nearly $2 billion to help fund 31 grid improvement projects in 26 states. That includes $50 million awarded to Duke Energy for the Carolinas. This article is from our Pennsylvania affiliate, with a sidebar at the end by Jessica on the Duke Energy award.
According to a survey released last year, childcare disruptions cost South Carolina an estimated $997 million annually in employer costs and lost tax revenue. (File photo by Vanessa Nunes/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
By Jessica Kaneft
In the fifth commentary in her Jericho Road series, author Jessica Kaneft writes about the lack of childcare options for many moms across South Carolina. "For mothers raising children alone, work is an economic necessity," she writes. But that's impossible "when the childcare required to go to work is unaffordable or simply doesn’t exist."
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