State news in brief for May 10
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Kissing raccoons not a good idea
HILTON HEAD ISLAND (AP) -- More than a dozen people in Hilton Head are being treated by a doctor after they held, fed or kissed a baby raccoon that later tested positive for rabies.
Department of Health and Environmental Control officials tell The Island Packet of Hilton Head that 16 people are being evaluated. Seven more people may need vaccines to prevent them from contracting the disease.
DHEC spokeswoman Clair Boatwright said someone adopted the 3-week-old raccoon and the animal was handled affectionately by several people before it became ill Monday. The animal later tested positive for rabies.
Boatwright said the disease is fatal once symptoms begin to show, meaning the virus has reached the brain. Boatwright said 20 of the residents' pets are being quarantined for 45 days.
Heath officials warn that wild animals be left alone.
Museum of Art to host big exhibition
COLUMBIA (AP) -- The Columbia Museum of Art is preparing for its most expensive exhibition ever.
The State newspaper reported Friday the museum plans to spend $500,000 to host a traveling exhibition featuring work by Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and other well-known artists.
The exhibition, called "Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales," comes to the museum in 2009. Columbia is its first stop.
The 47 paintings and six works on paper were created between 1850 and 1920. The works are being shown in the United States for the first time.
No bond for man in MySpace rape
GREENVILLE (AP) -- Bond has been denied for an Alabama man charged with raping a 14-year-old South Carolina girl he met on MySpace.
WYFF-TV in Greenville reports that a judge made the ruling Thursday during an arraignment hearing for 21-year-old Jared Heath Gaskey. Gaskey is charged with second-degree rape, soliciting a child over the Internet and kidnapping.
Police say Gaskey met the girl online between March and April, and the two also began text messaging each other.
On April 25, police say he drove from Gadsden, Ala., to Greenville to pick the girl up from Northwest Middle School.
They say Gaskey drove the girl back to Alabama, where they had sex. Police found the girl after her mother reported her missing.

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