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Today's riddle: What do you call advice from a cow ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. SC public schools have strict student cell phone policies. But what happens in an emergency? (thestate.com) — A recent phoned-in threat that locked down Lexington High School has many families wondering how strict student cell phone rules work during emergencies. State policy generally requires phones be put away during the school day, but officials say students may access them once they are safe in a crisis, even as educators still discourage heavy phone use.
2. Suspect shot after exchanging gunfire with deputies (thecaycewestcolumbianews.com) — Lexington County deputies shot and wounded a 46-year-old West Columbia man after he allegedly fired a shotgun at them outside a Shadowfield Drive home early Friday. No deputies were hurt, and Sheriff Jay Koon has asked SLED to investigate while his office conducts an internal review of the response.
3. SCDPS joins Child Passenger Safety Week, offers car seat checks (wach.com) — Parents in Lexington can get free child car seat checks this Saturday, Sept. 26, from 8–10 a.m. at the Lexington County Sheriff's Department on Gibson Road. Certified technicians will make sure seats are correctly installed and answer safety questions, as part of a statewide Child Passenger Safety Week effort.
4. Alex Murdaugh's lawyers want key DNA, ballistics evidence from prosecutors (myrtlebeachonline.com) — A recent status hearing at Lexington's Marc H. Westbrook Judicial Center advanced preparations for Alex Murdaugh's retrial in the 2021 killings of his wife and son. His lawyers are asking a judge to force prosecutors to hand over DNA, ballistics, and other evidence so they can conduct independent testing before the new trial begins in April.
5. Former high-ranking Syrian official who later moved to SC sentenced to 60 years for torture, concealing his past (wltx.com) — A former Syrian prison official who once lived in Lexington has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for torturing detainees and lying on U.S. immigration forms. Federal prosecutors say he led a notorious Damascus prison wing, then settled in Lexington before his past was uncovered and he was arrested in 2024.
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