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Woman gets life sentence in S.C. cheerleader's death
11/6/2009 10:14 PM
UNION -- A South Carolina woman who held down her husband's high school cheerleader girlfriend as he stabbed her to death to prove his love was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.
Yolanda Thompson cried and asked the victim's family ...
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11/6/2009 10:13 PM
ANDERSON -- As a kid, Scott Foster couldn't wait until the first winter's snow. It didn't matter that the white powder fell nearly every year, usually inches at a time.
"I'd stay up all night watching the snow fall. If you had 6 inches or more on t ...
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11/6/2009 12:35 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to North Charleston's Navy brig but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.
U.S. Sen. Jim DeMi ...
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11/6/2009 12:34 AM
CHIPLEY, Fla. -- Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.
Clothing was pac ...
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11/6/2009 12:33 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina is back among the list of states reporting the swine flu is widespread.
For the past few weeks, South Carolina has been among few states reporting the flu was regional, the second-highest level. But the level was upgraded ...
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11/5/2009 12:32 AM
ORANGEBURG -- Offshore oil drilling, wind and nuclear power and global warming brought together five Democrat and five Republican candidates for governor in an unusual bipartisan debate Tuesday.
If "the issue is global warming, well some folks say ...
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11/5/2009 12:32 AM
CONWAY -- A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.
Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near ...
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11/5/2009 12:32 AM
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) -- Federal authorities say 21 people have been charged for their roles in cockfighting businesses operating in South Carolina.
U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins said Wednesday that undercover officers attended eight cockfighting event ...
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11/4/2009 12:39 AM
MIAMI (AP) -- Officials at the National Hurricane Center said they're making their tropical storm advisories easier to read.
The public advisories give the positions of tropical depressions, named storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean ...
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11/3/2009 8:46 PM
The following recalls have been announced:
* Charleston Cookie Co. of Charleston is recalling packages of almond cookies sold as part of Dean & Deluca Americana cookie tins, because they contain milk products that are not listed in the ingredie ...
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11/3/2009 8:45 PM
HILTON HEAD ISLAND -- A South Carolina couple missing for more than a year and a half has been officially declared dead by a judge as family members established scholarships and planned a memorial in Georgia for the pair.
A judge declared John and ...
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11/3/2009 8:45 PM
COLUMBIA -- Bug spray that produces a fog to kill insects is likely to blame for the death of a 10-month-old South Carolina boy, and his 2-year-old brother was critically injured by the fumes, authorities said Monday.
Anderson County Deputy Coroner ...
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11/3/2009 6:52 PM
COLUMBIA -- A South Carolina poultry plant raided by immigration agents last year has agreed to change its hiring practices under supervision to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Unde ...
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11/3/2009 12:36 AM
COLUMBIA -- A Republican South Carolina state senator said Monday he is challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. John Spratt in 2010 - a race national Republicans consider "one to watch."
Freshman state Sen. Mick Mulvaney's announcement comes two months af ...
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11/3/2009 12:36 AM
WILLIAMSTON (AP) -- A 10-month-old South Carolina boy suffering breathing problems has died after a grease fire in his home.
Anderson County Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman told multiple media outlets that an autopsy was scheduled Monday for Jacob W ...
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11/3/2009 12:35 AM
ATLANTIC BEACH (AP) -- Officials in a troubled South Carolina beach town are meeting for the first time since their mayor was indicted on a hit-and-run charge and suspended from her job.
The Florence Morning News reports that Atlantic Beach is hold ...
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11/3/2009 12:35 AM
CHARLESTON (AP) -- South Carolina and Georgia are welcoming three endangered sea turtles being flown to the area after they were stunned in cold waters off the New England coast last year.
The loggerhead sea turtle and two Kemp's ridleys are arrivi ...
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11/3/2009 12:34 AM
MYRTLE BEACH (AP) -- A South Carolina high school student has died after his motorcycle crashed into a school bus. No one else was injured.
Multiple media outlets report that the crash happened as the bus and motorcycle were turning on to the S.C. ...
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11/1/2009 7:27 PM
COLUMBIA -- The number of concealed weapons permits issued in the state has risen sharply this year, state records show, as people worry about crime and their right to bear firearms.
The State reported Sunday that concealed weapons permits issued b ...
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11/1/2009 7:27 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Popular television personality Anne Pressly never regained consciousness after she was found in her bed, brutally beaten by an intruder. Now, Arkansas prosecutors hope DNA evidence will do the talking for her.
Prosecutors plan ...
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11/1/2009 12:33 AM
ROCK HILL -- The golden neon sign flickered in front of the plate-glass window, behind the bride. "Open 24 hours" it told passers-by on Rock Hill's Heckle Boulevard near Cherry Road. Next to her left shoulder, above the flowers in her hands, the mach ...
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