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By April Silvaggio

MARCH 11, 2010 11:45 a.m. Comments (0)

Golf carts, government takeovers, and 'Hey that's my wife.'

The U.S. Congress may be stumped over problems like how to fix the health insurance mess and jumpstart the economy.

But one member of the House of Representatives from neighboring North Carolina is convinced he has the solution for getting Americans to spend their money: Just get ‘em to spend one for the Gipper!

U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that would redesign the $50 bill, kicking Ulysses S. Grant to the curb in favor of the nation’s 40th President.

“President Reagan was a modern day statesman whose presidency transformed our nation’s political and economic thinking,” McHenry said in a statement released by his office.”

Or maybe McHenry is still holding a grudge against the Union general.

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Two South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers have been suspended from duty after getting into a fight at the home of one of the men’s estranged wife, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities said Trooper Jeffrey Cassidy, 35, went to his estranged wife’s home in Inman and forced his way into the residence where he found his co-worker, Trooper Kevin Hull, 31.

When Cassidy, who officials said was on duty and in uniform, appeared out of nowhere, Hull locked himself in a bedroom, deputies said. A report said Cassidy told Hull to “open the door or I will shoot.”

Cassidy’s wife told deputies her husband grabbed her and shoved her out of his way. The two troopers got into a fight, and Hull suffered a cut on the head.

Somebody there dialed 911.

Hull said he didn’t want to press criminal charges.

Cassidy, however, was arrested on a charge of criminal domestic violence in connection with pushing his estranged wife.

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A 26-year-old Myrtle Beach woman told police her boyfriend threatened her after she refused to finish her food. She was getting heartburn, according to a police report.

Authorities received a call about 3:30 a.m. reporting the incident. The 33-year-old boyfriend left before the cops arrived. The woman told the officers she and her boyfriend had gone out to dinner, but that he got angry when she stopped eating. She apparently left the restaurant with another friend, and her boyfriend followed her home.

She told the police he came into her room, pulled blankets off her as she lay in bed and yelled at her, according to the police report. Another man who was with the woman’s boyfriend tried to calm him down before the two men left the house together.

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Also in Myrtle Beach, a man was arrested after a 30-year-old woman told authorities he rammed her car with his and threatened to kill her, a police report said.

Gregory Joseph Newman, 38, was charged with assault with intent to kill after officers stopped him on Kings Highway where the police witnessed him chasing the woman just before lunchtime.

The woman told the officers Newman was chasing her and rammed her car because she refused to stop and talk with him. She said she didn’t answer his telephone calls while she was at her doctor’s office, and Newman confronted her in the parking lot afterward.

Newman told the cops he struck the woman’s car going about 40 mph because he wanted her to pull over.

A bill aimed at making golf cart transportation a primary means of travel may soon be before the state Legislature.

As the law stands now, golf cart drivers must stay within two miles of their home or business, and not travel on highways unless crossing over them onto a secondary road.

The new law, which is making its way through the House, would extend the radius by three miles.

But moped drivers shouldn’t get too excited just yet.

Even for a golf cart, you still need a valid South Carolina driver’s license.