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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Top News from the Western Carolinas for 6/28/08

From the Upstate, Piedmont, and Mountains of the Western Carolinas:

Gasoline may prevent Carolinians from diving long distances for vacation time, but the summer weather has a local antidote--white-water rafting. The world's largest man-made white-water river is located just off of I-85 in Charlotte, and it may be just the thing for local vacationers. Read all about it HERE.

Mauldin High School in the Greenville County, S.C. town of Mauldin is the setting of the latest school sex scandal involving a volunteer track coach and a 14 year old female who was a member of the track team.

The drought in upstate South Carolina continues as water levels become dangerously low in some of the area's lakes and streams.

There is new, updated information about the Lyman hazardous waste spill. A Lyman, SC couple in Spartanburg County has been indicted in the spill. Law enforcement officials state that the couple deliberately disposed of the waste along a 13 mile stretch of road in Spartanburg County.

Police in Charlotte state that not only are thieves stealing gasoline from the pumps, but they are taking gas right out of people's gas tanks.

Have you seen this woman? Police need your help in locating this 33-year-old woman who has been missing since May 29.

A severe weather alert for Saturday and Sunday has been issued for the upstate of South Carolina, the mountains and Piedmont of North Carolina, and the mountains of northeast Georgia.

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