Boiling Springs babysitter charged with abuse
BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. (AP) — A 32-year-old Boiling Springs woman is accused of abusing a 3-month-old baby in her care.
Deputies were called to the hospital March 19 about suspected abuse. They tell local media outlets they were told a 3-month old there had a serious head injury that caused bleeding on the brain and retinal hemorrhages.
The baby had been brought to the hospital by her babysitter, Katie Wheeler Harris. Deputies said Harris gave them conflicting stories about what had happened, then failed a polygraph test.
Authorities say Harris ultimately admitted the child fell from a swing belonging to her parents.
Harris was arrested on Monday and charged with abuse inflicting great bodily injury on a child. Her attorney says the whole story of what happened hasn't been told yet.
Man sentenced for killing SC woman, putting her in container
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for stabbing his girlfriend to death, putting her body into a plastic container and taking her to the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant.
The State newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/1HCcSQL ) that Faasiu Toese was sentenced Tuesday in Richland County.
Toese was arrested in 2013. He had called police himself, telling officers to look in the backseat of his car, where his girlfriend's body was in a plastic storage container.
Deputies say 25-year-old Temukisa Enele from Pago Pago, American Samoa, died after she was stabbed several times. Investigators have sayd they were not sure why Toese drove to the McDonald's before calling police.
New lamb on display at the birthplace of South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — There's a new addition to the Animal Forest at the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site in Charleston.
It appears that a sheep named "Meryl Sheep" had a lamb late last month and the new lamb goes on display on Wednesday. There are now three Katahdin (kuh-TAH'-dihn) sheep at Charles Towne Landing.
Katahdin sheep, named after the mountain of the same name which is the highest peak in the state of Maine, were bred by a farmer there in the second half of the 20th century.
Charles Towne Landing on the Ashley River dates to 1670 and is the site of the first permanent European settlement in what became South Carolina.