Crash leads to punctured gas line, school ordered to shelter in place, officials

Crash leads to punctured South Carolina gas line, school ordered to shelter in place, officials say

Updated: 10:07 AM EDT May 22, 2024

IT’S TIME FOR NEWS TO GO. WE HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY’S TOP NEWS STORIES, TRAFFIC AND WEATHER ALL BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR. WE BEGIN WITH RESULTS FROM STATE AND COUNTY RACES OUT OF GEORGIA. VOTERS THERE HAVE DECIDED WHO WILL APPEAR ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT. US HOUSE DISTRICT TEN UP FIRST FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. LEXI DOUGHERTY HAS DEFEATED JESSICA FOUR WITH 98% REPORTING. DOUGHERTY WILL FACE REPUBLICAN MIKE COLLINS, WHO IS RUNNING UNCONTESTED. TURNING NOW TO A SEAT ON THE GEORGIA COURT OF APPEALS. THIS IS A NONPARTISAN RACE. JEFF DAVIS HAS BEEN DECLARED THE WINNER OVER TABITHA PONDER, 95% REPORTING THERE AND THEN IN THE RACE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, NORTHERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT D PARKS WHITE RUNNING FOR REELECTION. DAVID JORDAN, THE CHALLENGER THERE. PARKS WHITE WON. HE TOOK HOME 60% OF THE VOTES. THE GEORGIA SUPREME COURT INCUMBENT, ANDREW PINSON, DEFEATED HIS CHALLENGER, JOHN BARROW. THAT WAS A NONPARTISAN RACE, AND WITH 96 6% REPORTING, PINSON LEADS WITH 55% OF THE VOTE. THERE. WE’RE ALSO FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL COMMITMENT 2024 COVERAGE THIS MORNING. SEVERAL SHERIFF’S RACES HAVE BEEN CALLED IN GEORGIA AS WELL. LET’S START IN ELBERT COUNTY, WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC RACE FOR ELBERT COUNTY SHERIFF DARREN SCARBOROUGH WAS DECLARED THE WINNER THERE. SCARBOROUGH WILL FACE REPUBLICAN JAMIE CALLAWAY, WHO RAN UNOPPOSED IN THE REPUBLICAN RACE FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF. CURRENT SHERIFF STEVE THOMAS NOT SEEKING REELECTION THERE. SCOTT ANDREWS TOOK HOME NEARLY 50% OF THE VOTES AND WRAPPING UP IN STEPHENS COUNTY, AND THE REPUBLICAN RACE FOR SHERIFF THERE, RUSTY FULBRIGHT WAS NAMED THE WINNER. A REMINDER THAT THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARIES TAKE PLACE ON JUNE 11TH, BUT EARLY VOTING BEGINS NEXT TUESDAY, MAY 28TH. EARLY VOTING WILL END FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH. ELECTION DAY IS FOR BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES, BUT A REMINDER FOR YOU THIS MORNING YOU CAN VOTE IN EITHER PRIMARY, BUT NOT IN BOTH. FOR MORE RESULTS FROM GEORGIA AND INFORMATION ABOUT VOTING IN SOUTH CAROLINA, YOU CAN HEAD TO WIFE 4.COM AND CLICK ON THE COMMITMENT 2024 TAB. FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S CRIMINAL HUSH MONEY TRIAL WILL TAKE A SCHEDULED RECESS TODAY. IT COMES AS THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE HAVE RESTED THEIR CASES IN THE TRIAL. THE JURY WILL RETURN NEXT TUESDAY TO HEAR CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND BEGIN DELIBERATIONS. THE DEFENSE HAD THEIR FINAL WITNESS ON THE STAND YESTERDAY, ROBERT COSTELLO, AN ATTORNEY WHO WANTED TO REPRESENT MICHAEL COHEN. TRUMP DID NOT TAKE THE STAND. THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO 34 COUNTS OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS RELATED TO ALLEGED HUSH MONEY PAYMENTS. MEANWHILE, A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT HAS REJECTED THE LATEST ATTEMPT BY HUNTER BIDEN TO POSTPONE HIS UPCOMING GUN TRIAL. THAT TRIAL IS SET TO BEGIN JUNE 3RD IN DELAWARE. LAWYERS FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN’S SON ASKED FOR THE DELAY, SO THEY COULD APPEAL THE CASE. PROSECUTORS ALLEGE HE ILLEGALLY BOUGHT A GUN IN 2018 BECAUSE HE WAS USING DRUGS AT THE TIME. HE HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND IS CHALLENGING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE GUN STATUTE. BIDEN’S LAWYERS ALSO HAVE ARGUED THE CHARGES ARE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. NEW SURVEILLANCE VIDEO HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM INSIDE A GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL BUS THAT CRASHED IN APRIL. THAT CRASH HAPPENED ON STAMEY VALLEY ROAD NEAR TRAVELERS REST. TWO KIDS WERE ON THAT BUS, BUT NEITHER WERE INJURED. TROOPERS SAY THE BUS DRIVER WAS GOING AROUND A CURVE WENT OFF THE ROAD, OVERCORRECTED AND THEN WENT BACK ON THE ROAD BEFORE HITTING A MAILBOX AND A FENCE. AND ULTIMATELY THE MOBILE HOME. A VIEW FROM INSIDE THE BUS SHOWS THE DRIVER FALLING OUT OF HER SEAT. NO ONE WAS INSIDE THE MOBILE HOME. THE DRIVER WAS CITED FOR DRIVING TOO FAST FOR CONDITIONS. A PART TIME ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER COULD SOON BE COMING TO AN UPSTATE CITY. LAST NIGHT, CLINTON CITY COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO APPROVE ITS PROPOSED BUDGET ON ITS FIRST READING, $170,000 OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET COULD BE SPENT ON ANIMAL CONTROL, AND THAT COMES MONTHS AFTER 11 YEAR OLD ORION ANDERSON WAS MAULED BY FOUR DOGS WHILE WALKING TO HIS SCHOOL BUS STOP. CITY MANAGER TOM BROOKS SAYS THE ATTACK WAS THE LATEST PUSH TO HIRE AN OFFICER. HE SAYS HE’S WORKING THROUGH ALL THE DETAILS OF HOW THE PROGRAM COULD WORK. THE SECOND READING OF THE CITY’S BUDGET IS EXPECTED TO HAPPEN NEXT MONTH. MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY, AN OCONEE COUNTY DEPUTY…