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COLUMBIA — Authorities say a North Carolina woman drowned her 6-week-old baby in a pond at an outlet mall in Myrtle Beach.
 
Horry County Police charged 24-year-old Jameisha Alexander of Carrboro, North Carolina, with murder Monday.
 

MARIETTA, Ga. — A gunman inside a gun shop near Atlanta began shooting at police officers, who returned fire after responding to reports of a break-in at the business shortly before dawn today, Marietta police said.

No injuries were reported and four suspects have been apprehended at the Deercreek Gunshop in Marietta, just northwest of Atlanta, Marietta police Officer Brittany Wallace told The Associated Press.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — It seems some pets in the Myrtle Beach area are just snake bit.

Local veterinarians say there’s been a spike in the number of dogs and cats being bitten by snakes this summer.

Tom Hesselbacher of Animal Emergency Hospital of the Strand tells The Sun News of Myrtle Beach it’s been a heavy snake bite season and he has treated six pets for snake bites in the past week. Vets at VCA Palmetto Hospital say they are treating about seven cases a week.

Heavy rainfall Saturday overwhelmed Au­gusta’s Messerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, pushing 2.8 million gallons of untreated sewage into Butler Creek and the Savannah River.
“The rain was kind of crazy,” Utilities Director Tom Wiedmeier said. “We had a tremendous amount of flow coming to the plant.”

A “unique” case of Zika infection in Utah that might have spread to a family contact is being investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency reported Monday. Meanwhile, Augusta and Geor­gia are preparing for the mosquito-borne virus.
CDC officials say they are looking into the case of a man who died in late June and was found to be infected with Zika, with levels of the virus in his body that were 100,000 times what would normally be expected.

Plans to build a police substation inside Port Royal at Riverwalk Augusta will go before the Augusta Commission today for final approval.
The consent agenda item had four supporting votes from a committee last week. Commissioner Sean Fran­tom called for the station after gunfire erupted following the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display.
The former riverfront mall serves as Augusta headquarters for Unisys. Frantom said the station will protect the public and development taking place along the river and downtown.

Joe Holley, a third-generation member of Au­gusta’s Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, wasn’t surprised to find barricades blocking traffic Sunday morning as a lake of water standing in the 800 block of Greene Street slowly drained away.
“It’s two things,” said Holley, the engineer for the city of Grovetown. “One, it’s such a flat grade. Gravity dictates what the water does.”
The other thing “is maintenance,” said Holley.

 
A man is facing charges after a deputy found him exposing himself outside a burned home in Martinez on Saturday, police say.
Columbia County sheriff’s deputies were called to the 400 block of Beverly Road about 2 p.m. for reports of a man exposing himself.

 A teen is facing charges as police continue to investigate a string of cases of illegally entering an auto in Grovetown last week.
Columbia County sheriff’s deputies responded early Thursday to four residences on Keesaw Glen, in a neighborhood off High Meadows Drive, after residents discovered someone had rummaged through their vehicles overnight.
Two of the homeowners told police the vehicles were unlocked. Reports for the other two cases did not indicate whether the vehicles were locked.

Interstate motorists should expect delays for the next four to six weeks from repair work planned in Columbia and McDuffie counties.

Beginning today , according to the Georgia Department of Transportation, concrete slabs will be upgraded, beginning with eastbound lanes near mile 182 in Columbia County.
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