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South Carolina News

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56 min ago | It's Getting Hot In Here

South Carolina talks Justice; 725+ say 'Green Jobs Now!'

The Debate is over. South Carolina Alliance for Sustainable Campuses and Community , a network of the Southern Energy Network hosted over 75 young concerned citizens from 11 colleges, high schools, and ...

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, University of South Carolina, University of Alabama Birmingham, Activism, Nuclear Energy

8 hrs ago | Insurance Journal West

Federal Investigators Check Highway Under South Carolina Jet Crash

Federal investigators are examining the South Carolina road a Lear jet crossed before crashing shortly after takeoff at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, killing four people and injuring two popular musicians.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents

17 hrs ago | Azcentral.com

Radioactive garbage piles up at hospitals

Tubes, capsules and pellets of used radioactive material are piling up in the basements and locked closets of hospitals and research installations around the country, stoking fears they could get lost or, ...

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy

Sat Sep 27, 2008

WBT-AM Charlotte

Hundreds In S.C. Die From Flu Each Year; Plenty Of Vaccine Available This Year

South Carolina health officials say enough flu vaccine has been ordered this year for everyone who is recommended to get a shot.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, Medicine, Influenza, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

WBIR-TV Knoxville

Caught on tape: fiery South Carolina plane crash

Disturbing video from the South Carolina plane crash that killed four people and injured two others.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents

Press & Sun-Bulletin

Survey says women rule roost; men OK with that

Around the house, women rule. And men aren't putting up a fight about it, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center that looks at how gender and power play out at home and in the community.

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Related Topix: University of South Carolina

WRDW-TV Augusta

Only on 12: Family Talks About Murder, Study: SC 2nd in the Nation for Women Killed by Men

A new study says South Carolina is 2nd in the nation for the highest rate of homicides when men kill women.

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Fri Sep 26, 2008

Greenwood Today

McMaster: South Carolina Price Gouging Law To Remain In Effect

South Carolina Attorney General's Office - - As of noon, September 27, 2008, Attorney General McMaster will renew the state's price gouging prohibition statute and has issued the following statement: "Due to ...

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Ike, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC

WCIV

Legislators Preparing Budget Cut

Senate and House budget writers say in a letter they'll put together plans to make specific cuts in agency programs and spending, and they are asking the governor to make recommendations of his own.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, US Governors, Mark Sanford

Charlotte Channel 9

S.C. Program Aimed At Preventing Teen Pregnancy Cut

The state agency that oversees Medicaid in South Carolina says it's eliminating a program aimed at preventing teen pregnancy.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, South Carolina Government

The Beaufort Gazette

A never-ending battle: Distinquishing between North and South Carolina

You hear it all the time: a storm is never headed for North or South, it's always just on a path towards a place called "The Carolinas." Local tourism officials hate when broadcasters and weather forecaster use ...

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Thu Sep 25, 2008

WAGT

SC worker admits to fake Social Security number

One of the South Carolina poultry plant workers arrested this summer in an illegal immigration probe has pleaded guilty to lying about his Social Security number.

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Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Immigration Reform

Irish Independent

Chinese disco fire leaves 43 dead

A fire at a nightclub in southern China , near the border with Hong Kong , has left 43 people dead and another 88 injured.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Fire

Rock Hill Herald

Future of Atlantic Beach unknown

The future of Atlantic Beach is up in the air after the Town Council did not vote on several proposals the town manager said were needed to keep the community running.

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Aiken Standard

Police create warning system to track wandering seniors

By JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press COLUMBIA -- Some South Carolina police agencies are adopting a Silver Alert system to locate seniors with dementia who wander away.

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Wed Sep 24, 2008

WBTW

SC senators split over economic bailout plan

Even though they're from the same party, South Carolina's two U.S. senators don't agree on the $700 billion economic bailout plan being debated in Washington.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint

Reuters

Nicholas Sparks finds atmosphere key to romance

Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, who has seen three of his romantic novels turned into films, celebrates as the third, "Nights in Rodanthe", hits theaters and this month and a fourth, "Dear John" goes into ...

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Related Topix: Nights in Rodanthe

The Clarion-Ledger

Say OK to okra: Viscous veggie perks up dishes

Maybe part of why Southerners love okra is because they're not afraid to eat it.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Soup

GreenvilleOnline.com

Few S.C. parents sign up for free tutoring

COLUMBIA -- School district administrators said Monday it's difficult to get poor parents to enroll their children for free tutoring because the after-school help is inconvenient or seen as a stigma instead of ...

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Related Topix: Columbia Metro, Columbia, SC, Education Etc., Summerton, SC

Tue Sep 23, 2008

The Times and Democrat

Lindsay Lohan: Says she is dating Samantha Ronson

Lindsay Lohan has confirmed what the world has guessed: She's been dating Samantha Ronson "a very long time." The 22-year-old actress casually told the co-host of the syndicated radio program "Loveline" on ...

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Related Topix: Entertainment

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