Alcolu News

Eleven people are behind bars after complaints by neighbors led officers to organize and conduct a three month drug investigation in Clarendon County.

Over 67 years after 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was put to death by the state of South Carolina, he may soon be cleared of the crime that people familiar with the case say he never could have committed.

He stood just 5ft 1in, weighing only 95 pounds and when police led George Junius Stinney to the death chamber in 1944 he was, at the age of 14, the youngest person to be executed in the U.S. He was so small that large books had to be placed on the seat so his head could reach the electrodes.

On Oct. 20, Anita Hill will discuss her vision for equality in a talk at the University of South Carolina.

An argument between siblings turned fatal early Sunday morning at their mother's home in Alcolu, according to the Clarendon County Sheriff's Office.