Inman dead in ultralight plane crash in Chesnee
CHESNEE, S.C. (AP) — An Inman man is dead after his motorized glider crashed in Chesnee.
Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger told local media outlets that 50-year-old Kelly Lee Easler was pronounced dead at a hospital at around 8 p.m. Monday.
Clevenger says Easler was piloting a glider that crashed into trees and got stuck about 80 feet up in the air. The coroner says Easler tried to jump to a nearby limb and fell to the ground.
A passenger found stuck in a tree was rescued by firefighters and taken to a hospital.
Authorities are investigating the crash and say it does not appear that mechanical issues are to blame. Cherokee Springs Fire Department Lt. John Alley says the crash happened near a small airstrip.
Authorities have not said if anyone has been arrested and have not released any additional details.
Son, girlfriend charged in slayings of NC couple in SC
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Police have charged the son of a North Carolina couple with their shooting deaths at an oceanfront hotel in Myrtle Beach.
Media outlets report that 52-year-old Carrie Daley Turner and 61-year-old Steven Gray Turner of Durham, North Carolina, were shot and killed Friday.
Authorities have charged their son, 23-year-old Alexander Gray Turner, and his 19-year-old girlfriend Chelsi Lelia Griffin each with two counts of murder. The couple is from Conway.
Turner appeared at a bond hearing Monday on a charge of possessing a weapon during a violent crime. He told a judge he has the evidence to prove his innocence.
A bond hearing for Griffin was set for Tuesday so she could appear with her attorney.
Police have said the slayings resulted from a domestic dispute.
2 charged after man dies from mistakenly drinking herbicide
MEG KINNARD, ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man died after he mistakenly drank herbicide that was stored in a soft drink bottle he bought from two men, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The men, Kenneth M. Beauford and Damon Lamonte Kelly, were arrested last month, Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a news release.
Prosecutors said Kelly stole a restricted herbicide containing a highly toxic weed killer available only to commercially licensed users and Beauford put it in plastic soft drink bottles. Beauford sold the herbicide to two people in St. Stephen, and a buyer mistook the herbicide for a beverage, drank it and died in June, Wilson said.
Beauford is charged with involuntary manslaughter, and Kelly faces a petty larceny charge. Court records listed no attorneys for the men. Both men are also accused of violating the Pesticide Control Act.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified the toxic weed killer paraquat as "restricted use," meaning that it can be used only by people who are licensed applicators. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the form of paraquat marketed in the United States has a blue dye to keep it from being confused with beverages, a sharp odor and an added agent to cause vomiting if someone drinks it.