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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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Crane operator Stafford Higgins tries to make ends meet by hawking shark meat at a roadside stand on Dorchester Road on his days off. Mauricio Sanchez supports his wife and two children selling tacos and other Mexican favorites from a mobile food wagon on Ashley Phosphate Road.
Both will be affected by a law that North Charleston City Council passed 8-1 on Thursday to regulate transient vendors.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Amid a chorus of criticism, U.S. Rep. Henry Brown said Thursday he killed his bill to make a large undeveloped spit on Kiawah Island eligible for cheaper government-subsidized flood insurance.
In recent days, voters flooded Brown's office with e-mails and phone calls saying the government shouldn't subsidize new development on fragile barrier islands. "Our constituents spoke, and we listened," Brown said.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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There's no doubt that sea levels have been rising, and most scientists expect the trend to accelerate due to climate change.
On Thursday, a coalition of environmental groups sought to focus attention on the threat, and to promote alternative energy, by illustrating the potentially disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in Charleston and other coastal communities in the Lowcountry.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
A jury deliberated about two hours Thursday before ruling the State Ports Authority was not responsible for the death of a worker accidentally crushed by a 20-ton container.
William Edward Holst Jr., 52, a union container checker, was killed as he was moving around tall stacks of container boxes in July 2004 at the Port of Charleston's Wando Welch Terminal.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
A 15-year-old James Island Middle School student is accused of raping a 12-year-old classmate on a bus after school in December.
Both are special-needs students, according to the Charleston County School District.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Gov. Mark Sanford told members of the Legislature they had to quit spending state money like drunken sailors because there were budget problems a-coming.
They said he was grand-standing, they were prudent stewards of the budget. They called him Chicken Little.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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DENVER — Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his bid to become the nation's first black president.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Charleston officials believe they know how to solve flooding problems on the west side of the peninsula, but they don't know where they'll get the estimated $130 million needed for the project.
More than 70 people gathered at Nichols Chapel in Charleston's West Side neighborhood Thursday to learn about the city's plan, and to press for more government funding for the initiative.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
MOUNT PLEASANT — More than 30 air-conditioning units have been stolen or dismantled in commercial areas of the town in the last two months, and police are asking for help in solving the crimes.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
RAVENEL — A 27-year-old man died Wednesday night in a single-car wreck on S.C. Highway 165 near Hyde Park Road.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — Berkeley County sheriff's deputies are looking for a St. Stephen man who is wanted in connection with a shooting Wednesday night at Carnes Crossing Mobile Home Park.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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North Charleston police think they have rounded up several members of an armed-robbery crew that targeted cab drivers and restaurant-delivery drivers in the Dorchester Terrace area since June.
On Thursday, the department announced the arrest of four teenagers in the holdups. Officers continue to search for at least one more person.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Nearly 100 Charleston Democrats packed into West Wings late Thursday to watch the man they hope will take over the real West Wing early next year.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
The Friends of the Hunley, the nonprofit group that raises money to preserve the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, has a new chairman. Sam Howell, a Charleston lawyer and history buff, succeeds Warren Lasch, who resigned in 2005. Charles Peery served as interim chairman.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
GREENVILLE — Authorities say a 30-year-old Iraq War veteran has been beaten to death with chairs and a table inside a Greenville nightclub.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
The Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau will get a bigger slice of Charleston County's lodging tax this year.
And the tourism group has agreed, starting next year, to aid Charleston County Council by making recommendations on applications from other groups hoping for lodging tax money.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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The University of South Carolina unveiled a portrait Thursday of Cassidy Fae Pendley, one of seven students killed in a beach house fire in North Carolina last year.
The 18-year-old North Charleston resident was a freshman chemical engineering student at USC. She was a 2007 graduate of Fort Dorchester High School.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
The Post and Courier will publish as usual on Labor Day, but curtailed schedules will be observed in order to give a holiday to as many employees as possible.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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A blaze that tore through a downtown home early Thursday was the latest in a series of suspicious fires that has bedeviled arson investigators for years.
Charleston firefighters weren't ready to say that somebody intentionally set the fire at the vacant, two-story house at Carolina and Coming streets. But they noted its resemblance to a small fire on Wesson Avenue this week and at least four others in the city this year.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
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Rashad Muhammad advertises himself as a savvy entertainment promoter and a benevolent businessman active in Lowcountry charitable work, but area police say this is a carefully cultivated front designed to mask the illicit activities of a master drug runner.
Muhammad, 37, surrendered to North Charleston police this week to face charges of trafficking nearly 500 pounds of marijuana into the city from Arizona.
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Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
GREENVILLE — Authorities have arrested three more workers at a Greenville poultry plant and accused them of using fake documents to break immigration laws.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
COLUMBIA — South Carolina agriculture officials say the new State Farmers Market should be finished by the time the tomatoes and peaches ripen in late spring 2010.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
COLUMBIA — Authorities say a patient at a Columbia hospital shot herself in the head after grabbing a prison officer's gun.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Dorchester County deputies reported arresting a Summerville-area man Tuesday on child pornography charges.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
A woman escaped a mobile home fire Tuesday afternoon in the Liberty Hill neighborhood of North Charleston after her smoke alarm sounded, firefighters said.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Three men face drug charges after North Charleston and Mount Pleasant police officers conducted a buy-bust operation Wednesday on Ashley Phosphate Road and seized 979 grams of cocaine and a 9 mm handgun.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Authorities have arrested a man accused of firing shots at three bouncers outside a Johns Island night club over the weekend.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Meghan, Walker and Tanner Myers of Summerville have become perhaps the first trio of siblings in the nation to earn their tae kwon do black belts on the same day.
"I know of two siblings but not of three" to accomplish that feat on the same day, said Marc Deschenes, the trio's martial arts instructor.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Amid vivid blue delphiniums, golden button mums and, these days, green hydrangea, you'll find Karen Spalviero.
The owner of Keepsakes Florist spends six or seven days a week in the Wappoo Drive shop, preparing fresh or silk flower arrangements to help people say a number of things including "I love you," "Congrats" and "My condolences."
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
A man wanted in connection with a police find of hundreds of pounds of marijuana has surrendered to authorities.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
A Charleston judge denied a request Wednesday to reduce the 15-year prison sentence of a man who attacked a woman on a Sullivan's Island beach path last year.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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A man wearing a dark shirt with the word "tequila" on the front robbed the Regions Bank on Savannah Highway on Wednesday morning by handing a teller a note.
The man walked into the bank at 1545 Savannah Highway, near the Kmart, at 9:36 a.m.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Charlotte Johnston is charged with helping young people see the value of a library not just for its books.
"I've always felt the community aspect of the library is very important," she said.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Martin Villicana is clinging to life in intensive care after being shot Friday night during a robbery at his taco stand in North Charleston, his family said.
His assailants riddled the 39-year-old father's abdomen with seven bullets, and he hasn't spoken since, said his daughter, Cinthya Villicana. He has six children depending on him, and his girlfriend is due to deliver his baby in October.
Police are searching for the four men who robbed him, and his family hopes someone in the community will come forward with information.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Lowcountry school superintendents spoke as one Wednesday: Change the state's funding formula for education.
The four local superintendents — Berkeley County's Chester Floyd, Charleston County's Nancy McGinley, Dorchester District 4's Jerry Montjoy and Dorchester District 2's Joe Pye — each spoke to a crowd of about 55 business leaders for about 10 minutes before taking questions during a State of the Schools forum hosted by the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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Amid growing tension between Russia and the West, the Charleston-based Coast Guard cutter Dallas on Wednesday delivered 34 tons of humanitarian aid to the Black Sea port of Batumi, Georgia.
In response, Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port. The Dallas is south of the zone of the fighting between Russia and Georgia. The arrival avoided Georgia's main cargo port of Poti, still controlled by Russian soldiers, The Associated Press reported.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Incarcerated economist Al Parish's appeal of his 24-year prison sentenced has been assigned to the federal public defender for South Carolina.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
FORT BRAGG — Police are investigating vandalism at six schools on two North Carolina military bases that caused $50,000 in damage.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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By most accounts, Gus Cacioppo could outplay about anybody. His last name, the way he said it — Ka-shop-o — almost sounded like a melody.
He performed opening night in 1946 at the bygone Cavallaro Club on Savannah Highway, played New York nightclubs and countless weddings with his swing band and sat in with Charleston's community orchestra until last year.
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
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The courts decided George Bellinger deserved another second chance. He was just 19 when he got nabbed for having drugs and running from Charleston police in 2004. Sure, he had been arrested before, but there was still time to turn his life around.
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Video: Suspicious downtown fire - A fire started overnight at this house at the northwest corner of Carolina and Coming streets. This is the second such fire this week and at least the sixth this summer matching a pattern of suspicious fires.
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