IN SPORTS: Sumter P-15’s look for season-opening sweep against Dalzell-Shaw B1 NATION 11 states file suit against Federal transgender rule A8 FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Suspect Iris Festival underway extradited Celebration of Grandmother faces the arts, nature old child abuse and music runs charges in 2 states BY ADRIENNE SARVIS through Sunday
[email protected] Jaqueline Raysor, the grand- FROM STAFF REPORTS mother from Louisiana arrest- ed by Sumter County Sheriff’s he 76th Annual Sum- Office for reportedly abusing ter Iris Festival got off her two grandchildren, was to a tasty, music-filled taken back to Louisiana T start Thursday eve- Wednesday after trying and ning and continues today from 9 failing to fight extradition. a.m. until 6 p.m. with food and Before being transported to marketplace vendors in place Louisiana, the 55-year-old post- across from the Swan Lake Visi- ed bail set at $75,000 cash or tors Center starting at 10 a.m. surety with GPS monitoring In addition, through Sunday at on April 25 but was taken back 5 p.m., festival-goers can enjoy into custody when Louisiana arts and crafts, boat rides on authorities issued a warrant Swan Lake, live entertainment for her arrest. on several stages, Art in the Gardens, Gateway to Gardening SEE EXTRADITED, PAGE A7 and Sumter Military Museum display’s salute to Shaw Air Force Base’s 75th anniversary, “Soaring through the Decades,” in the visitor’s center. There’s a lot to celebrate at Shaw history Swan Lake-Iris Gardens during South Carolina’s oldest contin- uous festival, named by the on display at Southeastern Tourism Society as one of the Top 20 Festivals in the Southeast for the past two years and a Top Event by Iris Festival the National Bus Association.