Well I'll be

By April Silvaggio  

JULY 26, 2010 6:07 a.m. (0)

Resisting or not resisting.

That is the question.

Officials in one South Carolina city say they intend to find out once and for all the legality of a law some police officers have previously used to arrest individuals who don’t follow simple commands.

York County Deputy Public Defender B.J. Barrowclough is challenging the law, and said it violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against reasonable search and seizure and freedom of speech.

The battle began after a man who wasn’t breaking the law ran into his apartment when officers demanded that he stop.

The law is apparently different from the one that makes it illegal to resist or run away from authorities in the midst of an actual arrest.

Apparently, the SWAT team was oblivious to the man’s daring escape.

Even though authorities say the suspect was outfitted in lime green shorts.

Now, police in Dunwoody, Ga., are looking for a man they describe as dangerous who apparently jumped from a third-floor apartment to evade capture early Monday.

Authorities said officers went to the Two Blocks Apartments at 4000 Dunwoody Park Sunday night after 37-year-old Earnest Dennis’ girlfriend filed a domestic violence complaint. Officers said Dennis barricaded himself inside the apartment.

When the SWAT team stormed the residence shortly after 6 a.m. Monday, Dennis was nowhere to be found. Dennis is also wanted on felony warrants out of South Carolina.

He may be limping.

He used to be a University of South Carolina trustee.

Now, a judge has trusted him to serve a sentence of two years’ supervised release for a federal bank fraud conviction.

Samuel Foster II, 53, who resigned from the University of South Carolina’s board after being indicted, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to bank fraud and failure to file tax returns. He also must repay more than $130,000 he received in the banking scheme that prosecutors say lasted more than three years.

Foster’s attorney said he was lured into the scheme by his co-defendant, former bank vice president Chester Williams, who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud but not yet been sentenced.

Prosecutors said contractors paid Williams kickbacks for bank business.

Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water.

Now a shark attack off the North Carolina coast has proven you wrong.

A teenager swimming in waist-deep water at Wrightsville beach needed 40 stitches this past weekend to close a wound left after she felt something bite her arm.

Doctors said she appeared to have been bitten by a 4- to 5-foot-long sand tiger shark.

Family members said she may need surgery to repair a damaged tendon.

A South Carolina woman thought it was safe to walk in her yard.

But an autopsy has confirmed that 63-year-old Rita Rogers died after being hit in the chest by a falling tree limb.  Authorities said the branch may have been knocked down by a lightning strike or shaken loose during a thunderstorm that same evening.

Neighbors said they saw Rogers walking in her yard, and then realized she had fallen.

She was unconscious when help reached her.

She was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.

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