State headlines
Official: Sanford reporting trips
11/20/2009 12:40 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wants to report previously unrecorded flights he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors, a state ethics official said Thursday, even as the governor's lawyer continued to defend his travel pra ...
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11/20/2009 12:39 AM
SPARTANBURG -- Three former officials in a South Carolina county already plagued by scandal will stand trial in February, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Henry F. Floyd also said during a brief hearing in Spartanburg that he wil ...
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11/20/2009 12:37 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Authorities say a severely overweight South Carolina man sat down in his recliner in March and stayed there for eight months until shortly before his death this week.
Greenwood County deputies say Tillmon Webb weighed about 8 ...
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11/20/2009 12:37 AM
ATLANTA -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia.
High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appa ...
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11/20/2009 12:37 AM
Merriam-Webster's annual Words of the Year dating to 2003, when the publisher started making the selection:
2009: Admonish -- "to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner."
Extensively looked up afte ...
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11/19/2009 12:41 AM
COLUMBIA -- A man on South Carolina's death row for killing two police officers in a land dispute over a highway widening project said Wednesday his sentence should be overturned because prosecutors tried to play on jurors' emotions by showing scenes ...
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11/19/2009 12:40 AM
Man admits to killing pizza man
CHARLESTON (AP) -- A second person has pleaded guilty to killing a South Carolina pizza delivery man two years ago.
The Post and Courier reported that 20-year-old Delronezy Washington pleaded guilty to murder ...
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11/17/2009 8:34 PM
COLUMBIA -- The recession is downsizing everything - even South Carolina's State House Christmas tree.
This year's tree is about 30-feet tall and doesn't even reach the top of the Confederate soldiers' monument on the capitol's front lawn.
"We're ...
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11/17/2009 8:34 PM
COLUMBIA -- A North Carolina man convicted twice of killing his lover's husband on a popular South Carolina beach should get another new trial because the evidence against him is so weak, attorneys for the man argued Tuesday.
Katherine Hudgins told ...
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11/17/2009 8:27 PM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina lawmakers took positions on either side of the first formal move to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday, a day before the release of a pivotal decision into the embattled Republican's travel practices.
Four Republican ...
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11/16/2009 8:33 PM
GREENVILLE -- A South Carolina man was placed on probation for three years after pleading guilty Monday to plowing his speeding Maserati through a house, killing a Greenville man.
After John Ludwig pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in the death o ...
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11/16/2009 8:32 PM
COLUMBIA -- The South Carolina Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of a 30-year-old man who admitted he killed four people across the Carolinas during a 2002 crime spree in the delusional hopes of becoming a mafia hit man.
Quincy Jova ...
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11/15/2009 6:23 PM
MYRTLE BEACH -- Seven years to the day after she disappeared from a parking lot, a funeral was held for a South Carolina woman remembered by her daughter as a woman with a passion for life who found beauty in everything.
The Sun News of Myrtle B ...
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11/15/2009 6:23 PM
ROCK HILL -- Authorities are looking for the mother of an infant born at a South Carolina hospital with cocaine and marijuana in its system.
The Herald of Rock Hill reports Saturday the 29-year-old mother checked into a Rock Hill hospital under a f ...
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11/15/2009 6:22 PM
COLUMBIA -- About half of the Southern Democrats responding to a poll say they were either opposed or outraged by South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst as President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress.
The State reported that the ...
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11/15/2009 4:10 PM
CHARLESTON -- Maybe it was Cpl. Ryan Fackey's natural inclination to give away almost anything. Maybe it was his service as a U.S. Marine in Iraq, where he saw countless children who had lived much harder lives than his.
Or perhaps his decision to ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
ANDERSON -- Charles Fant doesn't remember sending his wife, Betty, a dozen roses after their second meeting. But he quickly concedes.
"I didn't remember sending those roses, but she said I did," said Fant, now in his 80s. "So I'm sure I did."
For ...
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11/15/2009 12:33 AM
MYRTLE BEACH -- Don't call Todd Cunningham "The Gum Ball Guy" or "Gum Man" or "Gumby."
He's big and he's carrying a steam-cleaning wand full of 340-degree water and chemical solvent.
Special Projects Technician Cunningham is busy cleaning up spot ...
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11/14/2009 12:33 AM
COLUMBIA -- A travel report released Friday shows South Carolina's research universities spent the most on trips among 110 state agencies, but college officials note the amounts include private funds and grants.
Overall, state agencies spent $62 mi ...
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