IN SPORTS: Crestwood’s Blanding to play in North-South All-Star game B1 LOCAL Group shows its appreciation to Shaw airmen TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents A5 Ex-spouse Community enjoys Thanksgiving meal arrested after volunteers overcome obstacles in killing of woman Victim was reported missing hours before she was discovered in woods BY ADRIENNE SARVIS
[email protected] The ex-husband of the 27-year- old woman whose body was found in a shallow grave in Manchester State Forest last week has been charged in her death. James Ginther, 26, of Beltline J. GINTHER Boulevard in Columbia, was ar- rested on Monday in Louisville, Kentucky, for allegedly kidnapping and killing Suzette Ginther. Suzette’s body was found in the state forest about 150 feet off Burnt Gin Road by a hunter at about 4 p.m. on Nov. 16 — a few S. GINTHER hours after she was reported SEE ARREST, PAGE A7 Attorney says mold at Morris causing illness BY BRUCE MILLS
[email protected] The litigation attorney who filed a class-ac- tion suit on behalf of five current and former Morris College students against the college last week says the mold issues on the campus are “toxic” and that he wants the col- lege to step up and fix the prob- lems. Attorney John Harrell of Har- rell Law Firm, PA, in Charleston, made his comments Monday con- cerning the case after the lawsuit HARRELL was filed last week and the JIM HILLEY / THE SUMTER ITEM college was notified.