His body is found locked in the trunk of his burning car in North Augusta. The plant, called a pit disassembly and conversion facility, is the third tine of the nation's three-pronged approach to disposing of its 55 tons of excess plutonium. South Carolina Gov. David Beasley signs the LIFE scholarship program into law. He is charged with three counts of burglary in the first degree, two counts of assault and battery with intent to kill, failure to stop for blue lights and sirens and resisting arrest. He had escaped from the Aiken County Detention Center on July 23.
Firefighters battle the blaze for two weeks.
A former employee is charged with arson. Prosecutors said Card was a member of a group that traded more than 100,000 sexually explicit images of children on the Internet. Another man who made instant fame for himself in the electronic world was Matt Drudge. In the field of journalism, the Drudge Report, a brash, gossipy online news sheet, got little respect. More mainstream journalists didn't take it seriously.