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SC celebrates its 225th birthday as a US state

South Carolina is celebrating its 225th birthday as a U.S. state. On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the nation's eighth state when it ratified the U.S. Constitution.

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Related Topix: Columbia, SC, Myrtle Beach, SC, Florence, SC

Fri May 24, 2013

WIS-TV Columbia

SCHP launches seat belt enforcement during holiday weekend

COLUMBIA, SC As one of the busiest travel weekends of the year begins, South Carolina Highway Patrol says they'll be staging nighttime seat belt enforcement across the state.

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Related Topix: Columbia, SC, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays

SFGate

SC man charged with threatening state employees

The State Law Enforcement Division says Russell Clark Johnson was arrested Thursday and charged with threatening the life of a public employee and unlawful use of a telephone.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government

Palladium-Item

Bridge collapse shines light on aging infrastructure

Six years after a Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people called attention to the state of the nation's bridges, there has been minimal improvement and insufficient funding to repair and replace aging spans.

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Watercolors document vanishing South

"By a Thread," by Mary Whyte, 2006, is one of 50 watercolor portraits on view at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in "Mary Whyte: Working South." Charleston artist Mary Whyte wasn't thinking much about the direction of her work when she began painting a well-to-do South Carolina banker in 2007.

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Related Topix: Arts, Painting, Entertainment

WTOC-TV Savannah

Gullah Festival returns to Beaufort this weekend

The 3-day festival opens on Friday and continues through Sunday in a new location - the Technical College of the Lowcountry.

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NOLA.com

New Orleans law firm Adams and Reese merging with South Carolina firm

Adams and Reese Managing Partner, Charles Adams Jr., and Ellis Lawhorne Managing Shareholder William P. McElveen, Jr.

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WIS-TV Columbia

Teen charged with DUI after younger brother killed in crash

A teenager was killed and a second was arrested on DUI charges in an overnight accident, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

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WBTV

Art by SC mental patients on display in Charleston

An exhibit of nearly 100 pieces created through the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's Art of Recovery program is opening on Friday at the Circular Congregation Church in Charleston.

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Thu May 23, 2013

The State

Memorial Day road trippin’ in SC

S.C. drivers will score the cheapest gas prices in the nation this Memorial Day weekend.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, University of South Carolina

CNN

Was IRS official not covered by Fifth?

Just before Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions in front of a House committee investigating wrongdoing in the IRS tax-exempt office she ran, she gave an opening statement insisting her innocence.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Trey Gowdy, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Elijah Cummings, Democrat, George Bush

WCNC-TV Charlotte

Ex-USC student gets 7 years for setting bar fire

A judge has ordered a 22-year-old former University of South Carolina student to spend seven years in prison and get drug, alcohol and mental health counseling after he admitted burning down a Columbia bar.

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Related Topix: University of South Carolina

FITSNews

Another SC Pension Fund Battle

For those of you who haven't been reading our recent wire posts , there was a big story in Governing magazine this week about the sorry state of South Carolina's pension fund.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government

Eater

Q&A: Q&A: David Chang, Daniel Patterson, and Massimo Bottura Talk Cook It Raw and Creativity

Last night at the New York Public Library, chefs David Chang, Daniel Patterson, and Massimo Bottura came together to talk about the culinary adventure that is Cook It Raw with founder Alessandro Porcelli and journalist Lisa Abend .

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The Georgetown Times

Former Midway Fire spokesman arrested

Former Midway Fire Rescue Public Information Office Bob Beebe has been arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

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Examiner.com

GOP governor hires white supremacist for re-election committee

The Republican party often gets accused of being prejudice or even racist. While the claims are not always accurate, at times the nail is hit right on the head.

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Related Topix: Southern Poverty Law Center, Law, Nikki Haley, US Governors

Examiner.com

Pattern of abuse? Lois Lerner's FEC grilled Oliver North about prayer

Lois Lerner , the embattled IRS official who invoked the Fifth Amendment at Wednesday's hearing covering the agency's treatment of conservative groups, seems to have a record of targeting Christians, The Blaze reported Thursday, citing the Weekly Standard .

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WLTX-TV Columbia

Senate Defeats Private School Choice Proposal

South Carolina senators have defeated an attempt to help parents pay for private school tuition or educate them at home through the state budget.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government

WHIO

SC hospital worker rejected flu shot, gets benefit

A former South Carolina hospital worker who refused a required flu shot is entitled to receive unemployment benefits thanks to a state appeals court.

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Examiner.com

Two youngsters from local First Tee chapter selected for Hank Haney Academy

Two youngsters from The First Tee of Silicon Valley have been selected to participate in a special training program this summer at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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