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Millennium Music to merge Mount Pleasant, King Street stores
Millennium Music has announced it will close its Mount Pleasant store June 17 in order to pool its resources at its King Street location and focus on the store’s new Feed Your Player concept.
Millennium is merging its brand name with feedyourplayer.com, the store’s online center for $5 used CDs and $8 used DVDs, as well as iPod trades and accessories. The purpose of dual branding is to make it clear to consumers there are significant changes being implemented at the store.
Co-owner Kent Wagner said Millennium has been thought of as a high-priced music retail store and the changes being implemented will make the store known for low prices.
Millennium Music has operated for seven years at Mount Pleasant’s Towne Centre. A 30% off moving sale will be held June 1-16.
Millenium’s King Street store also plans a move in 2007 to another location in the greater Charleston area. The site for the new store hasn’t been determined.
Lawsuit targets tire manufacturer in deaths of Citadel cadets
The families of three Citadel cadets killed in a Sept. 10, 2005, car crash in Dorchester County sued the Yokohama Rubber Co., charging a defect in the company’s tires caused the accident.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Charleston on May 16, is Warren et al. v. Yokohama Rubber Company, et al.
In the complaint, attorneys with Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman LLC of Mount Pleasant contend a Yokohama tire on the car driven by cadet Brett M. Warren “delaminated,” causing him to lose control and the car to roll over several times, killing him and his passengers, cadets Blake A. Campbell and Clarke G. Russell.
The accident occurred on Interstate 95 in Dorchester County while the three young men were traveling to Florida to attend The Citadel’s football game against Florida State University.
The complaints seek recovery for the cadets’ suffering and their families’ loss as a result of the untimely deaths.
South Carolina gets $1.62 million for economic development
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez announced South Carolina will get $1.62 million in federal funds for business and job growth. However, none of the money is earmarked for projects in the tri-county.
The Economic Development Administration investments include $1.25 million for Spartanburg Technical College to help build a business and industry technical training facility to serve new and existing industry in the Spartanburg area. The project should generate $100 million in private investment and is expected to create 545 jobs.
The Genetics Endowment of South Carolina Inc. of Greenwood will get $370,000 for roads and storm-water infrastructure improvements in a 189-acre technology park being developed to serve private technology and research development firms in the Greenwood area. The technology park is expected to draw $12 million in private investment and create 43 jobs.
The EDA is a venture capital resource that aims to support economic development in distressed communities throughout the country.
Companies to target homeland, port security with technology solutions
Sense Holdings Inc., a developer of next-generation biometric and explosive detection security technologies for government and commercial security markets, announced it has executed a memorandum of understanding with Interrelated Technologies Inc. of Charleston to develop advanced homeland security solutions and products.
The joint research and development agreement creates a formal platform for the two companies to work together as ITI completes the development of its unique system in combination with the Sense Holdings proprietary Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems technology. This product will be designed to offer a detection system for fires, explosives, WMDs and contraband materials.
Local pawnshop named in N.Y. lawsuit
A Summerville pawnshop is among 15 stores being sued by New York City. The lawsuit claims that illegal firearms sales at the stores have contributed to New York’s street crime.
The suit was filed in the federal court for the Eastern District of New York, and blames dealers for selling guns to people who should not legally own them.
It highlights more than 500 gun sales in five states: South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
According to the complaint, 49 guns from Mickalis Pawn Shop in Summerville were purchased by people who should not have been able to buy them. Some of the guns were used in violent crimes within weeks after being purchased in South Carolina, the suit states.
The pawnshop’s owner, Larry Mickalis, said he was surprised by the complaint and believes the guns could have been stolen from their legal owners before being brought to New York. Mickalis has been in business for 30 years and said he has never knowingly sold a gun illegally.
Before the lawsuit was filed, undercover agents were hired by New York City to test dealers in certain situations, such as when a convicted felon uses a relative to make a purchase. All 15 dealers named in the lawsuit sold to undercover buyers and did not recognize warning signs, according to a press release.
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