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Officials originally suspected foul play in the death of South Carolina teen Stephen Smith -- and had heard “rumors” about the student’s link to Buster Murdaugh.

State agents say Smith was murdered. Interest in his case has spiked in part because of where he died: about 8 miles from where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death.

Stephen Smith was found dead on July 8, 2015, on a rural road not far from the Murdaugh hunting lodge that would become a bloody murder scene six years later.

I have prosecuted cases of people having been hit by cars. this is not the scene of a hit and run. there was no debris. >> there was no debris. lower extremities, nothing was broken. and his loosely tied sneakers were on his feet? >> yes. >> they would have been blown off. >> if it was a hit and run case. >> every hit and run case i have ever seen, shoes blow off. >> they did not have their shoes on. >> a hit and run is extraordinarily violent. extraordinarily violent. he had some abrasions but ...

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Part 4

Among the topics students are learning include renewable and nonrenewable energy resources, as well as how commodities like corn are used for food, fuel, and fiber.

DEFIANCE — In keeping with their ongoing mission of protecting the environment, the Broad Top Township supervisors agreed recently to encourage federal legislators to support the federal STREAM Act.

Part 3

The township supervisors and Jerry Wright have begun a mission to have an unnamed stream near Wells Tannery named “Wishart Mine Run.” The stream of water originates near the old