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BANKRUPTCY" GM set to make announcement REBUILDING Craigo tasked with reviving Rashes DNSSE SPORTS, IB THE UNSEEN Group discusses the metaphyseal arSSEACCB4T7A Proudy serving THE WEATHER THE TxTrTm IMT TODAY: Party ckwdy.qutt wannHgh foaxMXUM I 1 wwwJndejgoumaLcom MONDAY, JUNE 1.2009 GREENWOOD. S.C. SECTIONS. 20 PAGES DAAy50tSUrCAYt1iO andTKlAraATBSafSX; Suspect fceing held in Sunday killing i Parishioners leave Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, after abortion provider Dr. George Tier was shot there SurKlayrrnrning, AP photo and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an ushen The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was arrested some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City three hours after the shooting, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press writer.

WIODTA. Kan. Dr. George Tiller, who remained one of the nation's few providers of late-term bortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot Long a focus of national anti-abortion groups, including a summer-long protest in 1991, Tiller was shot in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church, Stolz said. Tiller's attorney.

Dan See DOCTOR, page 5A GEORGE ma A CLOSER LOOK HEEDING the CALL WSHS principal says move to Greenville is where he needs to go "4 J' A 0 ONE-CAR WRECK Florida mail lolled on Highway 34 By CHRIS TRANOR ctrainor9iridexjournal.com A Florida nun was killed in a one-car wreck along Highway 34 early Sunday rooming. According to Greenwood County Chief Deputy Coroner Marda Kelley-Clark and Deputy Coroner lames Sanders, Duane A. Lacoste, 43, of Cantonment, Fla, died as a result of the wreck. Meanwhile, Lacoste's 23-year-old son was a passenger in the car and was taken to Self Regional Medical Center for treatment Kelley-Clark said Lacoste was in the Greenwood area visiting family. She said the wreck was called into emergency dispatch at 118 am.

Sunday. According to Lnc Cpl Scot Edgeworth, of the South Carolina-Higrmay PatroL the crash happened about 3 miles west of Ninety Six on Highway 34 Edgeworth said Lacoste was traveling west in his 2003 InfinM sedan when he lost control and crashed into a utility pole just off the right side of the road. Edgeworth said Lacoste was wearing a seat belt The trooper said one lane of road near the wreck on Highway 34 was blocked for nearly 2 hours as Highway Patrol conducted its investigation. LAW ENFORCEMENT Agencies join forces to enforce traffic laws ByJENTSFERCOiJON jcoltonOindexjournal.com WARE SHOALS During the past nine years, a former social studies teacher has had his nameplate on most of the topdesksia Wart Shoals secondary educatioaihigh school assis-tant principal, junior high principal, high school principaL But Charles Tharlie" Mayfield, current principal of Ware Shoals High and Ware Shoals Junior High, will be turning in his District 51 keys this year to take on the principal role at JX. Mann High School in Greenville.

"I wasn't looking to leave. The students, the parents, the staff need to know that They've been great, but I feel like we're called to be servants, and this is where I am needed," he said. 1 didn't even know the position had come open. My resume wasn't updated, and it wasn't active. I had somebody calL After thinking it over and praying about it my wife and I decided this was where I needed to The student population at J.L Mann High School is three times that of the Ware Shoals school' Mayfield said.

"There will be more staff; more students, but school is schooL We all do the same types of tilings. Theresa lot for me to learn about J.L Mann and how they do things, but the people in education are pretty idealistic. They want to change the world and they go into education looking to do that," he said. See MAYFIELD, page 5A By CHRIS TRAINOR ctrainorindexjournal.com With summer approaching and local road ways becoming more congested, law enforcement is certain to target certain high-traffic areas, looking for drivers who might not be following the law. With the recent signing of a multi-jurisdictional agree' ment, 17 law enforcement agencies will have the opportunity to team up to enforce Ware Shoals High School Principal Charles Mayfield stands on the school's steps Thursday morning.

Mayfield recently announced he is taking a principal's post in Greenville. iramc taws in sucn nign-crai-J fic or "problem" areas. The 17 agencies that i nl rrpntlv entered into th JERRY PEACE Eighth Judicial Circuit Selective Traffic Enforcement U.S.-Cuba discussions on immigration to resume The road to warmer relatjons between the United States and Cuba wont be easy for U.S. Secretary ol State Hillary Rodham Clinton to navigate. 4A Agreement are: the South Carolina Highway Patrol, Abbeville Police Department, Abbeville County Sheriff's Office.

Calhoun Falls Police Department, Clinton Public Safety, Due West Police Department, Fountain Inn Police Department, Greenwood Police Department, Greenwood County Sheriff's Office, Laurens Police Department, Laurens County Sheriff's Office, Newberry Police Department, Newberry County Sheriffs Office, Ninety Six Police Department, Prosperity Police Department, Ware Shoals Police Department and Whltmire Police Department Eighth Circuit Solicitor Jerry Peace summarized what the agreement entails. "With this agreement, you can have a task' force go into an area where there are a lot of By MATTHEW LIE Associated Press writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "These talks are part of our effort to forge a new way forward on Cuba that advances the interests of the United States, the Cuban people and our entire hemisphere," she said. She added that the Obama administration was "very pleased" with the Cuban decision. The communist government notified the U.S.

on Saturday that it had, accepted an administration overture made May 22 to restart the immigration talks, suspended by then-President George W. Bush after the last meet-: ing in 2003. Cuba also expressed a See CUBA, page 44 APFUPH0T0 President Barack Obama rescinded restrictions on travel to Cuba by Americans with family their in See TRAFFIC, page 44 B-10B 2C 11MB Tlw Index-Journal ia pub8shd wfth prfcfo for tha fopi of 9 Lakeiandt. Vu an Important Inside today's edition ABBY ACCENT 7A Tho Indei-JotaiMi la v' commttad to adtorial twcoBsnc. Us raport an rror, onlawi EmmiBw Nmm E4tef Richard Whiting at fMS-2522; or rwttltintfSfcKte i0ournel.com.

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