Paul Whitten, director of public safety, said most of the changes are simply to clarify some of the ordinances.

The public safety committee will address six primary issues at Thursday’s meeting, then a second a draft of the revised ordinances will be presented. The committee is expected to forward them to the full County Council for adoption.

The school employees turned themselves in to police to faces charges in the incident days after another woman was also charged.

Charged Wednesday were Carole Eileen McMahon, a teacher, and Julie Kristen Farmer Janis, a guidance counselor, both 38. Each was charged with failing to report child abuse or neglect; Janis also was charged with obstruction of justice, according to arrest reports.

That will come as no surprise to members of the board’s finance committee, which is to hear a report from university officials Thursday on the financial impact of either not raising or lowering tuition next year.

What might surprise them is that some students are lukewarm about the issue, and that there are those in the student body who would actually like to see tuition go up for in-state students.

According to the report, Horry County School District’s performance rose 4 percent to 53.2 percent from 49.1 percent in 2010. However, it said fewer students in the district took AP courses, with 1,261 students participating in 2011, down 93 from 2010’s 1,354. Students took 1,856 exams, 146 fewer than in 2010.

In the Georgetown County School District, performance rose to 56.12 percent of students scoring at the proficiency level, according to the report.

The woman with the gun had a concealed weapons permit and her gun discharged with she set her purse down on the floor at 12:35 p.m., said Sgt. Robert Kegler, police spokesman.

Detectives found a hole in the woman's purse, Kegler said.

Funding increased for some, and others are getting money for the first time.

This year the city is giving out $798,000 compared with the $756,000 it gave out last year. “This will help us breathe a little easier,” said Elsie Graves, president of the Gold Key Jazz Society, which will receive $20,000 this year, the first-ever funding from the city. The hope is that the festival becomes a successful annual event, drawing people from all over the country.

“We agree on so much that we need to start working together and speak with one voice,” Attorney General Alan Wilson said during a presentation with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel and the directors of the state’s sheriffs and prosecutors associations. “This is what law enforcement as a whole wants for South Carolina. This transcends party.”

Among the proposals that Wilson said carry the support of the state’s sheriffs, prosecutors and local police agencies is a bill that would make a prison sentence of life without parole mandatory for murder cases, including cases of kidnapping, armed robbery or where the victim is a child age 11 or under.

That’s the general consensus from dozens of comments received by the corps on just what a $20 million study of the deepening project should include. That study is required before a $300 million deepening can be done on the shipping channel leading to the nation’s fourth-busiest container port.

Port officials want the channel deepened to 50 feet to handle larger container ships that will be calling at the Port of Charleston once the Panama Canal is expanded in two years.

The auditions are for the school’s band program. Auditions will be held at the school on Belle Terre Boulevard off Forestbrook Road.

On Feb. 25, interested drummers can tryout at noon, bassists tryouts will be at 2 p.m. and keyboard auditions will be at 3 p.m.