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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Nellie Gash stepped off the bus in Greenville and looked out on a landscape littered with reminders of past mistakes and old temptations.
At 43, Gash had been addicted to crack cocaine for most of her adult life. The drug robbed her of a career and a stable family life. It drove her to sell her body to support her habit. It landed her behind bars.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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As the area's population swells, rush hour on Interstate 26 has become the plumber's equivalent of a stopped-up pipe.
Now, state and local transportation leaders think high-occupancy-vehicle lanes could get traffic in this key pipeline flowing more freely.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Abi Thompson has probably done more volunteer work by the age of 17 than most people do in a lifetime.
She's cleaned out donkey pens, painted houses, helped the homeless, cleared paths, planted trees and collected canned goods instead of candy at Halloween, the latter in costume as a hippie.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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State prison officials failed to protect a Berkeley County man from an extortion scheme that resulted in his death behind bars two years ago, a recent lawsuit claims.
Daniel Preston Walker, 20, was less than two years into a 20-year sentence for his role in a fatal shooting in Moncks Corner when he was killed in Lee Correctional Institution on June 24, 2006. Reports show he was beaten and smothered in the Bishopville prison about an hour east of Columbia. Authorities have not publicly identified any suspects in the case.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
A new report by the South Carolina Association of Counties will give local officials another tool to attract new industries and reassure citizens that their tax dollars are being used wisely. The association sent its "2008 County Profiles" to county officials last week. It's also posted on...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
The collection of garbage and yard waste is a basic function of local government, but it seems the process can be substantially improved with Global Positioning System satellites and handheld computers.
It sounds expensive, but adding some high-tech could save Mount Pleasant and other communities a pile of cash.
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Organizers of the Hair Etc. Beauty and Health Expo say its the fastest growing multicultural beauty and health trade show in the Southeast. At the event, which runs from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the Charleston Area Convention Center, professionals and the public can see "mini hair sho...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
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LADSON — Stephanie Morosi kept a .380-caliber pistol in a pillow on her bed because she was so scared of Jason Truitt.
Morosi had been sprucing up her childhood house, sanding and painting the shutters and cleaning the mess left after new tile was put down in the kitchen on the evening of Sept. 14, 2006. Suddenly, Truitt suddenly came through the unlocked front door of 122 Hartford Drive.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
York County coroner charged ROCK HILL — York County Coroner Doug McKown has been charged with violating the terms of his probation. Police in Lincoln County, N.C., say the 39-year-old McKown was charged with drinking and driving Thursday night.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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EASLEY — The tribute to Air Force Capt. William K. Mauldin came 56 years late. But that Friday's moving funeral service here came at all is a testament to a country's commitment to find its war dead and a daughter's search for a father she barely knew. Corinne Mauldin of James Island was just 2 when her father, a former Citadel cadet from Pickens, was shot down Feb. 21, 1952, during the Korean War.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Military surgeons in Iraq treat crushed bones, embedded shrapnel and nearly severed limbs, sometimes all at once. The evolution of surgery and emergency treatment on the battlefield influences civilian care. The invention of the ambulance and helicopter evacuation came from wartime necessity.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
A storm off the Southeast coast that sent bands of rain into Georgia and South Carolina developed into a tropical depression late Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. The Lowcountry is under a tropical storm watch. A small-craft advisory is in effect, and there is a chance of coasta...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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It's not easy to design a city, which some of Charleston's young residents learned Friday. Everything has to balance, said 12-year-old Charlie Black. "People are happy they have parks, but they also need jobs and a place to live." Charlie was one of a dozen 11- to 15-year-olds who participated in the Charleston Civic Design Center's City Challenge.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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"The rich are different from you and me." — F. Scott Fitzgerald A whole lot of buzz has surrounded the eye-catching private yacht SeaFair docked at the Charleston City Marina since earlier this week. The sleek $40 million, five-story mega-boat actually resembles a fine piece of sculpture rather than a seafaring vessel.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
The Coast Guard rescued two men from a capsized boat about 8 miles east of the Little River Inlet off the South Carolina coast.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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The recent Watchdog series "Parking Cheaters" documented how people commonly misuse handicap placards to park for free at metered spaces around downtown Charleston. But dozens of readers also called and e-mailed about other parking abuses, including the use of fire lanes in front of stores and shopping centers.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Mike Tuten has his eye on an alligator, an 8-footer back up a creek off the Savannah River. If he gets a permit in the state's random drawing, that's where the Bostick Plantation hunting guide is headed. And not with a customer. "I'm only going to be able to get one, and that's for me," he said.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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COLUMBIA — The charge that South Carolina's economy should be held hostage over the placement of the Confederate battle flag led a heritage group leader Friday to say it's an insult to Civil War soldiers. Randall B. Burbage of Hanahan, commander of the state division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the renewed call by the NAACP for a state boycott is a "mean-spirited attack."
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Food left unattended on a stove caused a kitchen fire that displaced six from a home in North Charleston's Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
A storm off the Southeast coast sent bands of blustery weather into Georgia and South Carolina on Friday, and forecasters warned that it could spin into a tropical depression. Flash-flood watches and small-craft advisories were posted for coastal areas as the system, with its center about ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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The city's Department of Parks will replace 10 dead palmetto trees along the stretch of Upper King Street in the coming weeks. The trees were planted in 2007 as part of the King Street Streetscape Project. The $21 million project spans nearly 2 miles from Carolina Street to Broad Street and covers sewer rehabilitation, electric and water conduits, bluestone for the sidewalks and more.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
A ninth annual event designed to improve relations between the Charleston Police Department and the community it serves will be held from 3-8 p.m. today at Brittlebank Park — or at the nearby City Gym if there's rain.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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The Charleston Symphony Orchestra and the CSO Gospel Choir have selected a new music director, and have named an associate director for a newly formed vocal ensemble within the choir. Sandra Singleton Barnhardt of Adams Run will become music director of the Gospel Choir, founded eight years ago to perform locally and to tour Europe performing gospel music, spirituals and hymns.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Authorities are investigating two bank robberies that happened within an hour of each other Friday and may have been carried out by the same team. The Dorchester County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man and woman suspected of robbing a bank in Ridgeville and a female suspected of robbing a bank in Harleyville.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
COLUMBIA — The Confederate battle flag that flutters 30 feet above one of this city's busiest streets still draws a mix of head shakes and shrugs from South Carolina residents. Some are upset the banner was removed from the statehouse dome eight years ago.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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When the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry re-enactors marched off the pontoon boat onto the sand of Morris Island on Friday, Joshua Washington carried the flag. He knew what it meant. He knew who had charged Battery Wagner with that flag 145 years ago.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Clemson University trustees have approved a tuition increase of 5.5 percent for state residents for the coming school year.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Authorities think a shooting at the Ashley Shores community early Wednesday spawned two retaliatory shootings within the next few hours. On Friday, North Charleston police announced one arrest in the case and said they were looking for two other men. Martez Brown and Benjamin Goss, both 24, were wanted on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, a release says.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Marshals net 40 in area roundup A bank-robbery suspect and a man wanted on a charge of pointing a firearm were among the local fugitives captured during the U.S. Marshals' recent Operation FALCON roundup, the agency said.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Retiring Municipal Association of South Carolina director Howard Duvall bid municipal leaders farewell Friday and was rewarded with the association's highest award and good- natured ribbing about his dance moves.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Give it two decades, and the Palmetto State could be the new Florida — perhaps with fewer shuffleboards. A demographer said that one in five of us will be over 65 by 2030. It will have wide-ranging effects on housing, jobs and health care. South Carolina has 650,000 residents over the age of 65, and the state is forecast to have 1 million people in that category by 2030, said Jerome McKibben, who is speaking on "Aging and Regional Planning" today in Charleston as part of the 68th annual Municipal Association of South Carolina meeting.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
McLEAN, Va. — A former contractor was charged Friday with making false statements as military investigators probe the apparent theft of nearly $40 million in fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq. Lee William Dubois of Lexington, S.C., was arrested Friday at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Former Charleston Mayor Arthur Bonnell Schirmer Jr., a member of Charleston City Council for 14 years before he served as mayor in 1975, died Friday. Schirmer was mayor for just four months, between the resignation of Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard and the swearing-in of Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., but he was an active mayor who did not want to been seen as a temporary caretaker.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
COLUMBIA — One of two illegal immigrants charged with smuggling a teenage girl into South Carolina and forcing her into prostitution was sentenced Friday to more than 14 years in prison. Jesus Perez-Laguna also was ordered to pay $52,500 in restitution during a federal court hearing in Columbia, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Former Charleston Mayor Arthur B. Schirmer, Jr., who served on Charleston City Council for 14 years and became mayor briefly in 1975, died this morning.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
An unattended vehicle and boat trailer rolled down the Remley's Point boat landing in Mount Pleasant on Thursday night into about 25 feet of water, officials said. "It was too deep to mess with," said Fire Department Battalion Chief Ron Alexander.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Interstate 26 may be a freeway, but keeping it and other state roads in operating condition is no free ride for taxpayers. The 22-mile stretch of I-26 from the Neck Area to Berkeley County cost about $711,000 to maintain last year, said James Law of the state Department of Transportation.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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COLUMBIA — The mayor and zoning administrator of the city of Union were charged Thursday in a public corruption scheme, several hours after the mayor resigned. Mayor Bruce Morgan, 57, and Zoning Administrator Jeffrey Lawson, 40, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Columbia and charged with conspiring to accept kickbacks in return for doling out government contracts, U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins said.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Two men reported being beaten and robbed near Broad and East Bay streets in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, police said.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Video: Stephanie Morosi - Charges of first degree murder against Stephanie Morosi were dropped last month after prosecutors determined that she shot and killed Jason Truitt in self defense. Morosi had been working as a female escort around the time of the shooting. Her attorney, Paul Thurmond sits in on the interview by reporter Nita Birmingham. This video contains conversations that may not be suitable for all viewers.
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