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3 hrs ago | World Magazine

Quick Takes

It's what came next that has authorities at South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division scratching their heads.

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7 hrs ago | Carolina Beaches

Sunday's Palmetto Classic Schedule Pushed Back an Hour

Due to the freeze already hitting the Columbia area tonight that is expected to hold through most of the morning, South Carolina officials have delayed the start of Sunday's action at the Palmetto Classic by an hour until 11 a.m. The first game between Tennessee State and Western Kentucky now begins at 11 a.m. South Carolina and Cleveland State ... (more)

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Related Topix: Holly Ridge, NC

11 hrs ago | WPDE

SC's ex-top cop among those defending video gaming

The man once tasked with hunting down A illegal gaming A machines in South Carolina is now among those A defending the use of new devices A whose legality is yet to be A determined.

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Related Topix: Games, Poker

16 hrs ago | News-Star

GSU wins Reynolds grant

The department of mass communication at Grambling State University is in rarefied company, being the smallest program in the country selected for the $50,000 Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor Program grant.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Grambling State University, Colorado State University, Texas Christian University, University of South Carolina

20 hrs ago | Lottery Post

Arkansas Lottery Commission picks new director

The Arkansas Lottery Commission picked Bishop Woosley, the lottery's chief legal counsel, to be the state's new lottery director.

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Yesterday | Bluffton Today

Poll: South Carolinians disapprove of nation's direction

By an almost 2-to-1 margin or 59 to 32 percent, South Carolinians surveyed in the latest Winthrop Poll believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, while only 46 percent said the same for South Carolina.

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

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Myrtle Beach Online

Carolinasa border tweaked

On May 24, 1772, William Moultrie took a break from surveying the South Carolina-North Carolina border to visit little Charlotte Town, which he described as having five or six houses, "very ordinary built of logs." Nearly 240 years later, Charlotte has a few more houses.

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Related Topix: Sumter County, SC, Smoaks, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenville County, SC

ABC News 4 Charleston

South Carolina coaching contracts approved

OLUMBIA, S.C. The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees has approved several contracts for coaches in the Athletics Department, it was announced today.

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The State

S.C. & Ga. at impasse over Jasper port

Gov. Nikki Haley met privately Friday with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to discuss a troubled $5 billion port project in Jasper County, but their session failed to resolve an impasse between the states that threatens to kill the ambitious proposal.

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Related Topix: Nathan Deal, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Georgia, Nikki Haley, US Governors, South Carolina Government

Silicon Alley Insider

Bank Of America Declared This Man Dead For Three Years

According to local Idaho station KBOI , Bank of America has been telling credit rating agencies that South Carolina family man Arthur Livingston is dead for the past 3 years.

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The Guardian

Election 2012: the return of 'culture wars' | Gary Younge

Until now, we thought this campaign would be all about the economy. It still will - but 'values' voters are going to count, too No wonder the Republicans have lost their way.

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Related Topix: US News, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Wedding

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Post-gazette.com

Suspect faces trial in three rapes, armed robbery case

The woman said she pleaded with the masked man as he held a gun to her body, told her to strip and forced her to lie on her bed.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

Clover Herald

South Carolina's week of legislative action

PENSION REFORM: Public workers would have to work two years longer, but they won't have to turn 62 to retire with full benefits under tweaks made to a House panel's draft for shoring up the state's pension system.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government, Pension, Personal Finance, Retirement, Columbia, SC, Law, Employment / Labor Law

WISW-AM Columbia

South Carolina to Work with ACT in Job Skills Training

South Carolina joined the testing organization ACT for their workforce initiative to improve job skills of those unemployed in the state.

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Related Topix: Nikki Haley, US Governors

WTOC-TV Savannah

SC legislators won't testify about redistricting

Two of South Carolina's top legislators will not have to discuss their debate over redrawing the state's new U.S. House districts.

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Related Topix: South Carolina Government

The Union Daily Times

Apprenticeship Carolina

Daily Times Carla Whitlock speaks to the Human Resources Association about Apprenticeship Carolina, which is a division of the South Carolina Technical College System.

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Related Topix: Union County, SC, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Morning News

South Carolina homeless students to get backpacks, supplies

The national charity Feed The Children is distributing 1,900 backpacks and supplies to homeless school children from South Carolina.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

WISW-AM Columbia

CPAC: DeMint Thinks GOP Race Could Go to Convention; Perry May Run Again

What did we learn walking around CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual Woodstock for the right, held in Washington, D.C.? For starters, don't expect the GOP presidential race to end anytime soon.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Jim DeMint, Tea Party, Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors, Newt Gingrich

Thu Feb 09, 2012

WYFF-TV Greenville

Powerball Jackpot Reaches Historic Level

'When the jackpot reaches historical levels, it gets attention. Those that don't play very often decide to take a chance,' said the Lottery's Executive Director Paula Harper Bethea.

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Athens Banner-Herald

Judge slams critics of Texas school prayer ruling

A federal judge who was vilified by Republican presidential hopefuls for banning prayer at a Texas high school graduation delivered a scathing and unusually personal response Thursday, saying those who used the case to further political goals "should be ashamed." In a court filing laying out the settlement terms of the prayer case, U.S. District ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Newt Gingrich, Education Etc., Texas Government, Texas, Rick Perry, US Governors

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