vehicle in Rembert Highway patrol and Sumter sheriff ’s office investigating BY KAYLA ROBINS kayla@theitem.com A 36-year-old Pinewood man was found dead on Camp Mac Boykin Road on Saturday re- SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 TUESDAY, OCTOBERmorning 15, 2019after I SERVING portedly being run over by a vehicle that fled the scene. James Antonio Gooden died as a result of a pedestrian-versus-vehicle wreck in the Rimini area of Sumter County in which the vehicle fled, according to Sumter County Coroner Robbie Baker. His body was found before 9 a.m. Saturday by hunters, and Baker pronounced him dead about 8:50 a.m., according to Adrienne Sarvis, public information officer for the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. His family has been notified, and an autopsy is scheduled for today at MUSC in Charleston, according to Baker. The sheriff’s office and South Carolina Highway Patrol are investigating the incident.
Court seems ready to require unanimous juries in states BY MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began a potentially contentious election-year term Monday in seeming general agreement that juries in state criminal trials must be unanimous to convict a defendant. The justices took up a quirk of constitutional law, a 47-year-old ruling that requires unanimity in federal but not state trials. Earlier in the day, the court also wrestled with whether states must allow criminal defendants to plead insanity. The one minor surprise when the justices took the bench just after 10 o’clock was the absence of Justice Clarence Thomas. The 71-year-old Thomas was at home, likely with the flu, the court said. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in
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Expert: No more 90-degree days expected Midlands has already set high-temp record for fall; drought conditions persist BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com The Midlands has already broken a record for the number of fall days at or above 90 degrees, but the tally
isn’t likely to increase any more. That was the good news, one could say, as part of a mixed report and outlook for Sumter and the Midlands from National Weather Service Columbia Meteorologist Leonard Vaughan, who spoke Monday. Since Sept. 1 — which is considered the start of the three-month “Meteorological Fall” season by the weather service
— through Sunday, the Midlands had 27 days of daily high temps reaching 90 or higher, Vaughan said. That was out of a total of 36 days. The 27th day of 90-and-above temps was Friday, when it reached 100 degrees at both Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter and the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, according to the weather service. The previous record for steamyhot fall days in the Midlands reaching at least 90 was 25 and occurred two SEE FALL, PAGE A6
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