Captain Murray says Debra Richards Constance is a second grade teacher at Tryon Elementary

Three people were arrested and three young children have been removed from a home after a welfare check in Prosperity.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jerry Lee Trantham, 56, on several drug charges.

The Sheriff says he doesn’t have anything significant enough to charge anyone, including Phelps, with drug violations.

The lawyers for 6 of the 7 college students arrested for marijuana possession related to the Michael Phelps incident say the issue will be “resolved” soon, but won’t say what that means.

A defense lawyer in South Carolina says police in the county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer.

    Perception… is reality.

    That phrase was voiced emphatically and frequently by my greatest mentor during my radio days, Tom Harrrell of WSTP-WRDX in Salisbury, North Carolina.  He would use it to remind employees that whatever our stations were perceived to be by their listeners, that’s what they were, and we’d better make the perception a good one.

    It can also be translated:  you are whatever people perceive you to be.

    Perception… is reality.

    And the reality of perception is catching up with Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps.

Deputies from the Newberry County and Lexington County Sheriff’s Offices combined on a bust of nearly 22 pounds of marijuana and two arrests.