Want a more effective workout? Change one thing, and you could see better results A3 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2018 75 CENTS Court rules in favor of coroner State Supreme Court decision reaffirms ruling that Samuels-Cooper not qualified for Clarendon job BY KAYLA ROBINS Court put to a final rest who will a coroner in the state and has no Samuels-Cooper, will be the sole
[email protected] be in the Clarendon County coro- means of becoming qualified with- name on the ticket on Tuesday, ner’s race. in the year allowed after being Nov. 6. After a legal dispute that began South Carolina’s top justices elected for the first time. That The ruling came as an unpub- in July, and just less than three ruled on Wednesday that LaNette means Bucky Mock, Clarendon’s lished opinion — meaning it is weeks ahead of the Midterm Gen- Samuels-Cooper, who won the pri- current coroner and the only MOCK eral Election, the state Supreme mary in June, is not qualified to be other candidate who ran against SEE CORONER, PAGE A6 Airmen and Celebrated Ailey II visits Sumter’s Patriot Hall families from Tyndall have come to Shaw Team Sumter asking for donations to help with necessities after storm BY KAYLA ROBINS
[email protected] Sumter government and military of- ficials, as they recognize the area es- caped the worst from Hurricane Mi- chael, are banding together to help some of those most affected in Florida and asking the community to join them.