Protect and Serve

The troop of the S.C. Highway Patrol responsible for Beaufort, Jasper and Colleton counties has a new commander, the agency reported this week.

Capt. James C. Filyaw, a 29-year veteran of the patrol, was named captain of Troop Six, which also patrols the roads and responds to wrecks in Charleston, Dorchester and Berkeley counties.

Filyaw replaces Chris Williamson, who was recently promoted to lieutenant colonel and transferred to patrol headquarters in Blythewood, an agency spokesman said.

Savannah-Chatham Metro Police are looking for the parents of a baby found dead in a trash truck Tuesday, according to a news release.

Authorities were called to the 7200 block of Central Avenue at about 11:30 a.m. by a truck driver who noticed the body of a fully developed newborn in the back of his truck, the release said.

An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death, authorities said.

Officers canvassed an area off Central Avenue near Skidaway Drive to help find the mother or anyone with information, but were unsuccessful.

A Lady’s Island woman contacted authorities earlier this week after she caught a man fondling himself in a pickup truck near her home.

The 64-year-old woman told a Beaufort County Sheriff’s deputy that she was walking near Tuscarora Avenue at about 11:50 a.m. Monday when she noticed a green pickup truck cruise past her several times, according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report.

She didn’t think twice about the truck until she rounded a curve and saw the vehicle parked next to the roadway near a bush, the report said.

This video came to us just a few moments ago (2:45 p.m. Wednesday) from a hurricane briefing earlier today. The National Guard has been taken off alert and counties should be able to handle the storm's effects, so long as Irene stays on its current path, the governor said.