SC today: School parking lot tasing lawsuit, book challenge and deadly crashes

From a Lexington mother suing after being tased in front of her child to rising costs at a nuclear weapons plant near Aiken, here are the stories readers across the Midlands are following today. These are the top local stories on The State’s website.

Here are key takeaways:

• Tasing lawsuit: A Lexington woman is suing the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department and SLED after she says a deputy dragged her from her vehicle and tased her three times following a dispute over a handicapped parking space at Pleasant Hill Elementary School.

• Book challenge: The Lexington-Richland 5 school board will hear a parent’s challenge Monday to the graphic novel “Sunny Side Up,” which depicts drinking, drug use and physical violence. The parent says the book was checked out by her elementary-aged daughter and asks it be restricted to certain grade levels with parental consent.

• Fatal crash in Lee County: One person died and another was hospitalized after a rear-end collision on U.S. 15 near Bishopville on Sunday when a sedan struck a slowing Tahoe and then hit a tree.

• Two killed on I-26: Two drivers died in a head-on crash around 2:25 a.m. Sunday near the Bush River Road area after a Hyundai sedan traveled the wrong way in the westbound lanes of Interstate 26.

• Nuclear plant costs soar: The plutonium pit plant under construction at the Savannah River Site near Aiken is now estimated to cost $25 billion to $30 billion — up from an earlier projection of about $5 billion.

The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.