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Latest Lee County Trials News
Homicide, yes, but self-defense or murder?
South Carolina
Out of work, estranged from his wife and desperate for money, James Perry Turnage Jr. sought a ride from his Yulee landlord to the River City shopping center in Jacksonville to cash in his coin stash on Oct. 8, 2010. Unable to get a ride from Kirk Westfall, Turnage shot the father of three in the head in his living room, took his car and phone, bought supplies and then fled to South Carolina ...
May 09 2013
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Egyptian policeman killed by Sinai gunmen
Central, South Carolina
Egypt's Interior Ministry says gunmen have opened fire on a security convoy in central Sinai, killing a police lieutenant and seriously injuring another policeman before fleeing.
May 04 2013
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Man injured in industrial accident
South Carolina
Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster says quick response by emergency personnel helped a man who was injured in an industrial accident Saturday.
April 09 2013
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Murder trial moves ahead
Patrick, South Carolina
A motion was filed in Nassau County Court last week to classify James Perry Turnage Jr., charged with first-degree murder in the death of Yulee resident Kirk Westfall, as a habitual felony offender and as a prison release re-offender.
February 28 2013
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Ex-ODU student sues Norfolk officers after drug sting
Patrick, South Carolina
NORFOLK A former Old Dominion student says he was asleep in his bedroom on West 48th Street when men wearing masks barged in and attacked him. Stephen Bowden says he thought he was being robbed, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
December 26 2012
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DHEC: Raccoon exposes woman to rabies
South Carolina
A Lee County woman is receiving post-exposure treatments after she was bitten by a raccoon who tested positive for rabies, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Monday.
December 13 2012
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Investigators resume search for remains of missing Brooksville girl
North, South Carolina
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Megan Lee Ann Pratt was 3 years old when she disappeared. BROOKSVILLE — It took nearly a decade and a half to bring Megan Lee Ann Pratt's killer to justice, but the 3-year-old girl with the chubby cheeks and bright blue eyes was never found. On Tuesday, nearly seven years after Megan's stepfather was convicted for her murder ...
December 06 2012
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Midnight melee sends one to hospital
South Carolina
At least one person was sent to the hospital Wednesday night after being beaten by several men at a bar, according to Richland County sheriff's deputies.
November 18 2012
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Rabun County murder victim identified; suspect held without bond
South Carolina
CLAYTON – Rabun County officials have released the name of the man who died after being stabbed in eastern Rabun County Friday afternoon. Rabun County Chief Investigator Gerald Johnson identified the victim as Alden Leeland Hass, 47, of South Carolina.
October 21 2012
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Spartanburg vigil honors those killed by domestic violence
Jefferson, south carolina
Victims remembered Thursday night included Stephen Lee McDowell, 38, who was shot and killed by his girlfriend last month, and Dawn S. Mims, who was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Arthur Mims, in 2010.
October 15 2012
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An argument, a 'pow' and then a scramble to flee
South Carolina
The case against a Holly Hill youth charged with murder in a fatal shooting on the campus of South Carolina State University in 2010 is expected to go to a jury Thursday.
August 16 2012
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Festival sponsors and volunteers recognized
Beaufort, south carolina
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEETHargrayFLAGSHIP ADMIRALLee DistributorsFLEET CAPTAINAdventure Radio Group; Beaufort Memorial Hospital; Pender Brothers; South Carolina Education Lottery; Vaden Chevrolet, Buick, GMC of BeaufortADMIRAL
July 14 2012
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Trial under way in deadly 2003 Calif. wildfire - FOX Carolina
Longs, South Carolina
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Robert Bulloch flashed picture after picture of burning forests and firefighters as he delivered his opening statement at the trial of Rickie Lee ... the reasons for pursuing murder charges against Fowler, except ...
July 11 2012
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Trial under way in deadly 2003 Calif. wildfire - Times and Democrat
Columbia, South Carolina
Opening statements have begun in the arson and murder trial of a California man accused of starting a disastrous 2003 wildfire. Defendant Rickie Lee Fowler was brought to San Bernardino County Superior Court in shackles after initially refusing to come to ...
July 10 2012
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Trial under way in deadly 2003 Calif. wildfire - WLOS.com
North, South Carolina
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- Opening statements have begun in the arson and murder trial of a California man accused of starting a disastrous 2003 wildfire. Defendant Rickie Lee Fowler was brought to San Bernardino County Superior Court in ...
July 10 2012
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Trial set for suspect in deadly 2003 Calif. fire - WLOS.com
Greenville, South Carolina
Rickie Lee Fowler will go on trial Monday on arson and five murder counts with special circumstances that make him eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors allege that he set the Old Fire in October 2003. The blaze erupted in the foothills ...
July 09 2012
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Attorney: Casey Anthony rejected early plea deal - The State
Longs, South Carolina
"There was nothing in the trial that ever made me think Casey was guilty of anything as related to the murder," Baez said ... "The lies were there long before Caylee passed away." In the book, he says Anthony had built a "fantasy world ...
July 07 2012
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Zimmerman bail set at $1M in Trayvon Martin case - Rock Hill Herald
York, South Carolina
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester referred to Zimmerman with words like "conceal" and "flee" more than a dozen times in an eight-page order that lets him out of jail while he awaits his second-degree murder trial in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
July 06 2012
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A look back: Casey Anthony found not guilty - WYFF4.com
Greenville, South Carolina
Her trial was one that had gripped the nation. It was a summer obsession for many, who stayed glued to the TV from the moment Caylee went missing to the moment that verdict was read. Anthony had been found not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 ...
July 06 2012
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Zimmerman bail set at $1M in Trayvon Martin case - KOB.com
York, South Carolina
Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester referred to Zimmerman with words like "conceal" and "flee" more than a dozen times in an eight-page order that lets him out of jail while he awaits his second-degree murder trial in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
July 06 2012
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