Daily Round-Up
Rumors & Notes 5/27/13
- South Carolina Veterans Face Long Wait for VA Benefits (Mount Pleasant Patch).
V.A. Aims to Reduce Its Backlog of Claims (NY Times).
- Honoring the ultimate sacrifice on Memorial Day: Army soldier’s death leaves family with void that can never be filled (Post & Courier).
- Memorial Day 2013: 7 SC Heroes Died In Past Year (Mount Pleasant Patch).
- Over a thousand start Memorial Day without power (ABC News 4).
- SC Boeing exec sends workers anti-union email (ABC News 4).
- Tougher new proposed DUI limit stirs up debate (Post & Courier).
- Police respond to West Ashley gas station (ABC News 4).
- Police search for man who used broken Champagne bottle to rob West Ashley gas station (Post & Courier).
- Orangeburg sheriff: Resident fatally shot man who broke into home with shovel (Post & Courier).
- Cops: Suspect sliced victim’s face from ear to lip (Live 5 News).
- Mt. Pleasant Road Closures Slated to Begin Tuesday.
- Tim Scott to speak at Lowcountry Memorial Day ceremony (Live 5 News).
- MSC Expanding in Mount Pleasant (Mount Pleasant Patch).
- 6 motorcyclists dead in 4 days along Grand Strand (ABC News 4).
- Battery Wilkes preserved to become park (Post & Courier).