State headlines
Private detective searches for missing teen in SC
2/8/2010 8:59 PM
CHARLESTON -- The head of a company that helps parents find missing children has hired a detective agency to search for a New York state teenager missing in South Carolina for almost a year.
Seventeen-year-old Brittanee Drexel of Rochester, N.Y., w ...
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2/8/2010 8:59 PM
GREENVILLE -- The South Carolina GOP is ditching the idea of forming a Tea Party Republican group while leaders say they are finding ways to make the party appeal more to the activists.
Last month, there were rumblings that the Greenville Republica ...
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2/8/2010 8:59 PM
GREENVILLE -- Police say a South Carolina man took a purse from a funeral home during the visitation for a former police chief, then stole a car from the parking lot.
An officer working security at former Greenville Police Chief David Bridges' visi ...
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2/8/2010 8:59 PM
CHARLESTON -- Tim Scott, the first black Republican elected to the South Carolina legislature since Reconstruction, abandoned his race for lieutenant governor on Monday to enter the crowded contest for the state's open 1st District congressional seat ...
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2/8/2010 8:58 PM
COLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Natural Resources Department has closed a public boat ramp in Kershaw County because of flooding on the Wateree River.
The launch is located where U.S. Highway 1 crosses the river.
Natural Resources Capt. William Po ...
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2/8/2010 12:11 AM
CHARLESTON -- Traffic through South Carolina's largest port in Charleston has decreased 37 percent in the past five years, while shipping through the neighboring port of Savannah, Ga., has increased 42 percent.
Experts say the change is because Geo ...
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2/7/2010 12:33 AM
MYRTLE BEACH -- Freestyle Music Park is closing its business offices and laying off about 30 employees as executives work to get new investors into the amusement park, park officials said.
The Sun Newsreported Saturday that a deal between the park' ...
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2/6/2010 12:11 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's schools chief called on legislators Thursday to increase the state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to the national average and put half of the additional revenue toward education to stop looming teacher furloughs.
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2/6/2010 12:11 AM
The fourth week of the legislative session:
Texting-driving
South Carolina could join a list of states that ban texting while driving, but legislators say the effort will hit a road bump if they also try to bar drivers from chatting with a phone ...
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2/6/2010 12:10 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is asking for aid for the state's growing charter school system, opening himself to criticism from educators who say he's backing a grant program that's part of the federal stimulus law he fought last year ...
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2/5/2010 12:13 AM
COLUMBIA -- Legislators want the three commissioners running the state Employment Security Commission gone after a series of flaps, including news that the jobless benefit agency faced nearly $1 million in penalties for not paying income taxes withhe ...
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2/5/2010 12:12 AM
COLUMBIA -- Fewer elementary and middle school students passed South Carolina's new state-standardized English and math tests last spring, though students performed better in science and social studies, according to data released Thursday.
Passing ...
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2/5/2010 12:12 AM
NORTH CHARLESTON -- A gray Air Force C-17 carrying 54 U.S. nationals evacuated from Haiti landed in South Carolina Thursday as the government opened a third site for repatriating Americans after last month's devastating earthquake.
Americans are al ...
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2/4/2010 12:21 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's highest court is hearing arguments Wednesday over whether a city can require motorcycle riders to wear helmets, despite the lack of a state law requiring the practice.
State law doesn't require riders 21 years or older ...
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2/3/2010 7:32 PM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina could join a growing list of states that ban texting while driving, but in a state that relishes personal freedoms, legislators said the effort will hit a road bump if they also try to bar drivers from chatting with a phone ...
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2/3/2010 7:32 PM
COLUMBIA -- Three years after his acquittal on rape charges, a registered sex offender in South Carolina this week won a new sentencing hearing on a federal gun charge.
In a nine-page opinion handed down Tuesday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea ...
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2/3/2010 12:33 AM
COLUMBIA -- No one expected Frank Palazzo to rob a bank when the 71-year-old painting contractor rolled up to one in his silver Jaguar.
However, authorities said Palazzo did just that for the fourth and final time Monday, desperate for money to kee ...
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2/3/2010 12:31 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina needs to reduce the number of people going to jail for minor offenses and let more people out on parole, a legislative panel reviewing the state's sentencing policies said in a report released Tuesday.
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2/3/2010 12:31 AM
CHARLESTON -- In a new memoir about her husband's affair, South Carolina first Lady Jenny Sanford writes that Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discovered his extramarital relationship.
Jenny ...
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2/2/2010 7:26 PM
CHARLESTON -- In a new memoir, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes that Gov. Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discovered his extramarital relationship with an Argentine woman.
Jenn ...
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2/2/2010 6:25 PM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's lottery didn't follow procedures in a contract to put security features on lottery tickets and isn't providing enough information about who is playing the games or their chances of winning, according to an audit released ...
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