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          <title>Officer who stopped Fort Hood rampage is Carolina Beach native</title>
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Those who know Kimberly Barbour Munley said they aren&#8217;t surprised the Carolina Beach native is the female civilian police officer credited for stopping the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, where 13 people were killed and several others injured.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fort Jackson reaction: Most see shootings as isolated act</title>
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A day after a deadly rampage at an Army post in Texas, soldiers at Columbia&#8217;s Fort Jackson held a moment of silence to remember the victims, while offering mixed reactions to the shootings. Most said Friday they considered the incident at Fort Hood to be a random act unlikely to be repeated anytime soon.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pembroke bank robbery ends in chase, arrest</title>
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A bank robbery Thursday evening ended with an arrest less than a half hour later.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Man fined after spear&#45;fishing grouper off Wrightsville</title>
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A man has been ordered to pay a $500 replacement fee after he pleaded guilty to possessing a federally protected fish, caught off Wrightsville Beach this summer, officials said. The N.C. State Marine Patrol charged Alejandro C. Llinas, 31, of Wrightsville Beach with a misdemeanor, alleging he possessed a Goliath grouper on Aug. 21, according to documents filed in New Hanover County District Court.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Trash fouls water at historic park</title>
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Mounds of garbage are piling up in the water at historic Riverfront Park, one of Columbia&#8217;s signature green spaces - and Sam McCuen wonders why. On a recent Sunday afternoon, McCuen took his grandchildren to the panoramic park and was stunned to see a mass of beer cans, tires, plastic drink bottles, rotting logs and other refuse bobbing at the base of the dam that separates the Broad River and the old Columbia Canal.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Graham, DeMint want military detainee trials</title>
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South Carolina&#8217;s Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to the state, but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:39:27 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Boeing deal: Details to be kept quiet</title>
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Politicians and other state officials privately crafted a $450 million incentive deal to land Boeing Co. on the promise of thousands of jobs and a multibillion-dollar economic impact, but the details of that deal could be kept from public view for the next year.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:19:03 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>SC plastic surgeon&#8217;s medical license suspended</title>
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South Carolina&#8217;s medical board has suspended the license of a plastic surgeon who it says left an operating room for hours during surgery and had sex with staffers who became his patients.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:41 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>SC Air Guard wins F&#45;16 competition in Jordan</title>
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A South Carolina Air National Guard unit is the winner of an international F-16 competition.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:52:21 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>S.C. high court rules Sanford&#8217;s ethics probe public</title>
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South Carolina&#8217;s Supreme Court says the ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford&#8217;s travel can&#8217;t be kept secret.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:53:48 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>With record prices, the gold rush is on</title>
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For this group of modern-day treasure hunters, there are no yellowed maps or tales of buried riches. But on a chilly fall night during a meeting at a volunteer fire department, there was plenty of gold.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Preliminary report on Summerville plane crash released</title>
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We still do not the exact cause, but a preliminary report has been released by the FAA on the plane crash which killed four people last month at Summerville airport.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:20:19 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>State limits some Medicaid patients to one pharmacy</title>
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South Carolina is now requiring some Medicaid recipients who are suspected of abusing prescription drugs to get all of their prescriptions from just one pharmacy through part of a pilot program called Pharmacy Lock-In.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:21:33 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Family tragedy: NC Murder&#45;suicide shocks, saddens</title>
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People who knew Billy Maxwell Jr. tried Tuesday to understand why the man known as a wonderful husband and father shot and killed his wife and two teenage children before turning the gun on himself. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a nightmare,&#8220; said Cyndi McKinney, a business partner and close friend of Maxwell.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Environment debated by SC gubernatorial hopefuls</title>
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Offshore oil drilling, wind and nuclear power and global warming brought together five Democrat and five Republican candidates for governor in an unusual bipartisan debate Tuesday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:18:13 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Commission sends out duplicate unemployment checks, again</title>
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For the second time in the last few months, the S.C. Employment Security Commission has sent out duplicate checks.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:36:22 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>SLED arrests fugitive wanted on several assualt charges</title>
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SLED, Fairfield County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and Winnsboro Department of Public Safety located and arrested Bun Mann III, a man wanted on a variety of charges including sexual assault, assault and battery, and kidnapping in Fairfield and Richland Counties.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:17:37 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Police: NC family&#8217;s death a murder&#45;suicide</title>
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Police say a prominent Fayetteville businessman shot and killed his wife and two teenage children Monday night before killing himself. One of the victim&#8217;s in-laws discovered the bodies and called 911.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:26 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>NC lottery adds Mega Millions</title>
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North Carolinians soon will get twice as many chances to defy the odds and win the jaw-dropping jackpots that stir daydreams of shiny cars, massive homes and instant retirement. And the state lottery will get more ways to make money.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fears, tears, grins greet swine flu shots</title>
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With the sound of schoolmates sniffling and crying all around him, 5-year-old Santos Duran bravely sat in his mom&#8217;s lap in the band room at Forts Pond Elementary School and awaited his swine flu shot.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:34:54 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Another Aiken County teacher charged with sex crime</title>
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Authorities have charged a former South Carolina middle school teacher with committing sex acts with a student, the second time in a month that a teacher at the school has faced sex charges.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:59:03 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>S.C. rejects free cell phones for low&#45;income families program</title>
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Prepaid wireless provider TracFone is trying to bring a program called SafeLink to South Carolina that provides low-income families with free cell phones and free minutes every month. But unless something changes, the program won&#8217;t be coming to the state because TracFone and the state Public Service Commission are at odds over the details.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:01:05 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>SCDOT Accepting applications for panel vacancy</title>
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A joint House/Senate panel is accepting notice from people interested in applying for a seat on the S.C. Department of Transportation Commission.&nbsp; A vacancy will soon exist in the Second, Fourth, and Sixth Congressional districts.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:28:48 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>I&#45;40 rock slide, football, tourists clog other Western North Carolina roads</title>
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Backups could slow travel on interstates around Asheville as football fans and befuddled tourists cope with the closure of Interstate 40 near Tennessee. Traffic for the University of Tennessee-South Carolina football game in Knoxville combined with leaf-season tourists on highways already crowded because of the I-40 rock slide could make for congestion.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:27:28 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Inspectors: Shelter run by church must fix faults</title>
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Ben Dean says he served his country for 13 years, 5 months and 21 days. After an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in June 1995, Dean admits he made a mistake. &#8220;I blame it on myself,&#8220; he said. &#8220;I needed help when I got out of the trouble.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Teen arrested in Robeson County homicide</title>
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Robeson County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies arrested a teen in the death of a 21-year-old.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:16:46 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Laurel Hill man dies after tree&#45;falling accident</title>
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A Parkton man died after a tree fell on him.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:11:52 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Easley&#8217;s lawyer stuns elections board, asks that DA get the case</title>
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After four days of putting the campaigns of Gov. Mike Easley and the N.C. Democratic Party under the microscope, the State Board of Elections expects to decide today whether a criminal probe is needed. On Thursday, Easley&#8217;s personal attorney told them to skip the deliberation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:10:28 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Boeing&#8217;s job impact should start in just weeks</title>
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Boeing is planning to have its new 787 Dreamliner production plant running in South Carolina in 2011, but state Commerce Secretary Joe Taylor said the plant will start having an effect on the state&#8217;s job situation in a matter of weeks because Boeing plans to break ground in November.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:26:25 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>South Carolina lawmakers announce Boeing to North Charleston</title>
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Here&#8217;s a statement from Boeing Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, on the announcement that its putting a second 787 Dreamliner plant in North Charleston.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:50:20 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Ocean Isle beach house fire two years later</title>
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Wednesday marks the two-year anniversary of the Ocean Isle Beach fire, that killed seven South Carolina college students.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:21 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Report: Real estate speculation led to Cape Fear Bank&#8217;s downfall</title>
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Cape Fear Bank was brought down by rapid growth and a loan portfolio too heavy on real estate acquisition and development, federal regulators reported Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>SC legislators wrap up jobless pay, economic bills</title>
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South Carolina lawmamakers hope to wrap up a two-day session with bills that extend jobless benefits and roll out a welcome mat for Boeing with economic development incentives.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina state senators have given initial approval to an economic incentive package that appears tailored to bring a massive Boeing assembly facility to Charleston. Lawmakers on Tuesday OK&#8217;d lower-interest construction bonds and incentives that include a sales tax exemption on fuel used in test flights. To qualify, a company would have to bring at least 3,800 jobs and at least $750 million in investment to the state over seven years.           ]]></description>
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The SLED bomb squad was called to the scene Tuesday morning of a U.S. Highway 301 traffic stop that resulted in discovery of what Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams described as six or seven bombs on incendiary devices.            ]]></description>
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The Boeing board of directors met Monday in Chicago without reaching a decision on siting a second 787 production line, as efforts continued to resolve an impasse in the high-stakes talks between the Machinists union and the company.           ]]></description>
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The General Assembly will reconvene for a two-day special session today to restore unemployment benefits lost by thousands of jobless South Carolinians. But the session also could yield a surprise by clearing the way for what lawmakers say could be a significant economic development project.           ]]></description>
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Engineers are considering two strategies to begin removing rocks as large as a mobile home from Interstate 40 in western North Carolina near Tennessee. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported one plan involves building an access road to the top of rock slide, a job that could take more than a week.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:19:04 EDT</pubDate>
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A new a report by the Southern Regional Education Board shows half of South Carolina high schools are &#8220;dropout factories&#8221; and the state ranks at or near the bottom of the nation when it comes to on-time graduation rates. But state education superintendent Dr. Jim Rex said the numbers are wrong.           ]]></description>
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A rockslide has closed Interstate 40 at mile marker 3 in both directions, the state highway patrol has reported. Mile marker 3 is near the Tennessee border in Haywood County.           ]]></description>
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Patriots Point banked on $20 million in federal funding to offset the more than $9 million it borrowed from the state to save its sinking warship Laffey. Now the federal money is off the table, and the clock ticks toward time for the attraction to repay the state loan. Plus, the Laffey&#8217;s repairs could incur unanticipated costs. And Patriots Point doesn&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s going to put the ship when that work is finished.            ]]></description>
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Seven more violent criminals could potentially be freed because of a court ruling and good conduct credits, North Carolina prison officials said Saturday. The men join 20 others who had been preparing for their release, but the future of all the prisoners remains uncertain.           ]]></description>
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The Diocese of South Carolina has voted to distance itself from the national Episcopal Church because of church positions on same-sex unions and ordination of gays.           ]]></description>
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Columbia Ob/Gyn Dr. James Johnson says he&#8217;s hearing from a lot of his pregnant patients that they&#8217;re worried about the safety of the new H1N1 flu vaccine and what it might do to their babies, so they&#8217;re not planning to get the vaccine. He tells them that would be a mistake.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:08:10 EDT</pubDate>
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Friday the Scotland Cancer Treatement Center hosted its fourth annual breast cancer awareness walk.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:40:21 EDT</pubDate>
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dancer whose dedication and artistic achievement have been instrumental in the growth of the University of South Carolina&#8217;s dance program has been named a recipient of the Governor&#8217;s Professor of the Year Award for 2009.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Could more constrictors lurk in Cape Fear region?</title>
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What if it wasn&#8217;t alone? That&#8217;s a worrisome possibility for local ophiophobes to wrap their minds around as they digest how a giant non-native snake ended up on the side of N.C. 133 near Orton Plantation in Brunswick County.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:52:45 EDT</pubDate>
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Following months of often tense negotiations, the State Ports Authority and the world&#8217;s largest container carrier announced an agreement Thursday evening to reverse the decision to sever ties at the end of next year.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:37:32 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lumbee tribe inches closer to federal recognition</title>
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Approval by key Senate committee moves tribe to its closest point since 1991.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:02:51 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Rebates offered on energy&#45;saving appliances for S.C. residents</title>
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South Carolinians can get rebates ranging from $50 to $500 this spring when they buy new Energy Star appliances. The state&#8217;s &#8220;Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate&#8221; program is being paid for with federal stimulus money.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:25:05 EDT</pubDate>
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Patricia Bell had seen a number of labyrinths during her travels as a magazine editor, particularly in Europe. The Landfall resident also has walked the winding paths in Wilmington - at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Church of the Servant. &#8220;It&#8217;s just very peaceful,&#8220; she said about labyrinths, which go back thousands of years and have become a meditative tool for people from various walks of life.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:20:08 EDT</pubDate>
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A small plane crashed shortly after departure and burst into flames early Wednesday morning in South Carolina, killing four friends heading to an amateur radio convention in the Bahamas.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:55:21 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>College faces accreditation issues</title>
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St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg could lose students because of accreditation problems.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:52:47 EDT</pubDate>
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South Carolina pays unemployment benefits to some workers who are fired from their jobs for everything from drug use to stealing to being late to work. It also pays benefits to some workers who quit their jobs voluntarily. The latest unemployment figures released Wednesday show South Carolina&#8217;s unemployment figure for September was 11.6 percent, an increase from the revised number of 11.4 percent in August.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:38:05 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Progress Energy joins industry in pledge to make electric vehicles a reality</title>
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The pledge builds on existing actions to help prepare the market for full-scale commercialization and deployment of PEVs by aggressive action in five focus areas: charging infrastructure, customer service, customer education, incentives and conversion of utility fleets.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:07:40 EDT</pubDate>
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Heroin overdoses and deaths in Charlotte have more than tripled since last year, a concern to authorities who want to prevent a repeat of the city&#8217;s drug battles of the early 1990s. Local officials are particularly concerned that gangs, most of which are connected to Mexican drug organizations, are aggressively targeting teenagers.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:09:59 EDT</pubDate>
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The aircraft carrier Yorktown played a heroic role in numerous battles for the Navy, from the time it was built in the 1940s until it was decommissioned in 1970. But as the longtime centerpiece of the floating maritime museum at Patriots Point, the inactive warship has been slowly losing a silent, corrosive and very costly war with nature.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:52 EDT</pubDate>
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Sheriff Sealy said Herman Locklear, 52 was apprehended Tuesday night at an apartment near Maxton.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:12:57 EDT</pubDate>
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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control held a summit Tuesday to provide community leaders with an update on the H1N1 flu.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:29:59 EDT</pubDate>
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While legislators will be trying to help unemployed workers in a special session, one legislator says he&#8217;ll introduce a measure that would put Gov. Mark Sanford out of his job.           ]]></description>
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On a sunny Monday afternoon with temperatures in the low 60s, parked cars stretched down both sides of Hillsborough Street near the N.C. State Fairgrounds. There were lines to buy miniature doughnuts and fried cheese, to ride in a tiny helicopter and to squeeze a cow&#8217;s udders.           ]]></description>
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Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will give a speech Monday at Brunswick Community College that likely will include much more than ending America&#8217;s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aim at a broader concept than that of an anti-war agenda.
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The S.C. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday afternoon about whether the state Ethics Commission should release its investigative report on the governor&#8217;s personal and political use of state aircraft to the S.C. House of Representatives.           ]]></description>
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The U.S. Coast Guard said it suspended its search for a missing Air Force pilot off the South Carolina coast Saturday at 10 p.m.
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Air Force officials say a missing fighter pilot likely died instantly when his fighter jet collided with another plane over the Atlantic Ocean. Authorities on Saturday night called off the search for Capt. Nicholas Giglio (jeel-EE-oh), who has been missing since the Thursday night crash.           ]]></description>
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Former Brunswick County sheriff Ronald Hewett has been released from prison and sent to an undisclosed halfway house. Hewett was released from Butner Federal Correctional Complex near Raleigh on Thursday and transferred to a community corrections facility, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross said.           ]]></description>
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As sweepstakes game parlors, operating as a legal makeover of video poker and Internet electronic games, sweep the state, some local governments are taking steps to stem the tide.           ]]></description>
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Powerball and Mega Millions have agreed in principle to cross-sell tickets to their big-jackpot lottery games. If the South Carolina lottery commission approves, South Carolinians would be able to buy Mega Millions tickets early next year.
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It was dark, the alcohol was flowing and dozens of Alexander Hamiltons and Andrew Jacksons were making their way into a downtown bar&#8217;s cash register Friday night. It wasn&#8217;t until the next day that a manager at the Market Street Saloon realized that someone scammed the business out of $510 by passing bogus $10 and $20 bills.            ]]></description>
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Mick Barraza believes in ghosts. He said he has seen them in action. Years ago, Barraza was in bed asleep when he heard his stepson&#8217;s tricycle being ridden in the house. Wondering what the boy was doing up so late at night, Barraza got up to check. &#8220;With my own eyes,&#8220; he said, &#8220;I saw the tricycle going around in circles.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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South Carolina&#8217;s Parole and Pardons board unanimously pardoned two great-uncles of national radio host Tom Joyner Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran, were unanimously pardoned Wednesday by South Carolina.           ]]></description>
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Robeson County Deputies are searching for man who escaped while being taken to a Pembroke courtroom Wednesday morning.           ]]></description>
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Not far from the hustle and bustle in southwestern Brunswick County, where new golf courses and wealthy subdivisions line U.S. 17, sits a decades old community lacking basic needs.           ]]></description>
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The 2009 S.C. State Fair opens Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Columbia.           ]]></description>
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 Nine months after skidding to salvation on the icy Hudson River, passengers of Charlotte-bound Flight 1549 have their say in a book being released today, one that contains an intriguing hypothesis: A key reason that evacuation of the jetliner went so smoothly was because it was largely populated by Southerners.           ]]></description>
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Longtime sweetgrass basket weaver Louise Jefferson has spent more than 30 years of her life at the City Market in downtown Charleston. Over the years, she&#8217;s watched the historic buildings erode with age.           ]]></description>
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A soldier at Fort Jackson has died after collapsing during a physical fitness test.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Escaped Inmate from Columbia back in custody</title>
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Escaped inmate David Edwards, who walked away from his work assignment Thursday at the Columbia Farms poultry plant in West Columbia, has been taken back into custody.            ]]></description>
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Southeastern Regional Medical Center will not allow anyone under 18 to visit hospital           ]]></description>
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South Carolina sites have begun receiving some shipments of the H1N1 vaccine, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Friday.
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22-year-old Patrick Frazier is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs about 175 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes. He has &#8220;Jayden&#8221; tattooed on his left arm.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s hard to keep up with South Columbus High School&#8217;s homecoming queen as she speeds around its hallways in her wheelchair, leaving a trail of talk and laughter on her way to class. Senior Brionna Spivey beat out five other girls in the homecoming court when her fellow students chose her to be their queen earlier this month. But Brionna, who turns 17 on Monday, has already beaten much tougher odds.           ]]></description>
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Behind rusting walls concealed by an emergency coat of paint, Charleston&#8217;s grossly outdated cruise terminal drew a standing room-only crowd that buzzed with new energy Thursday.           ]]></description>
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Gov. Mark Sanford has found himself in another controversy.           ]]></description>
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When a Highway Patrol trooper told a driver Tuesday that there was no good reason for him to blaze down a busy stretch of South Carolina interstate at 85 mph, he got a surprising reply: &#8220;Tell him that.&#8216;&#8217; 
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Residents can now choose whether or not to recycle           ]]></description>
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From Day One, the Dell Inc. computer-assembly plant in Forsyth County had an expiration date. The local community and 905 employees learned yesterday that the date will be around Jan. 31 &#8212; nearly four years and four months after the plant opened with great fanfare and promise in October 2005.           ]]></description>
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The South Carolina Tuition Prepayment Program is the latest victim of the nation&#8217;s struggling economy. State officials say the program, which allows parents to pay future college tuition using today&#8217;s rates, is anywhere from $30 million to $60 million in debt.           ]]></description>
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Mark Keel, Director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety issued the following statement Wednesday in connection with a traffic stop involving a member of the governor&#8217;s security detail.           ]]></description>
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Turns out David Letterman doesn&#8217;t just live on a TV show. He also lives in a glass house, where for years he&#8217;s hurled comedy zingers at misbehaving politicians, even as he brashly engaged in hanky-panky of his own.
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The University of North Carolina at Pembroke has received $750,000 for a biodiesel research program.&nbsp;              ]]></description>
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A South Carolina county recovering from a huge wildfire earlier this year has approved a partial burning ban for outdoor debris. 
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The Brunswick County school board announced late Tuesday that it will not renew the contract of Superintendent Katie McGee. School board member Bud Thorsen made a motion to begin the search for a new superintendent. All but one board member, Scott Milligan, backed the motion.           ]]></description>
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Consumers should get a break on heating costs this winter as milder weather and lower fuel costs offset what we have to pay to warm our homes, government and utility officials said Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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The Education Oversight Committee (EOC) has given approval to &#8220;cut scores,&#8220; defining levels of student performance levels on the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), the assessment administered to public school students in grades three through eight.           ]]></description>
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The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces a preliminary number of five people being killed on South Carolina highways from Friday, Oct. 2, at 6 p.m. until Sunday, Oct. 4, at midnight. 
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Bert Curcio is more afraid of the flu shot than the swine flu itself. He won&#8217;t be showing up when health departments, doctors&#8217; offices and other clinics begin offering the first vaccinations against the new H1N1 influenza in coming days.           ]]></description>
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Food Lion hopes to gobble up most of financially troubled rival Bi-Lo in a deal that would eliminate a major competitor from the Charleston supermarket scene.&nbsp; Belgium-based Delhaize Group, which owns Food Lion, announced Monday it is in talks to buy stores and inventory for $425 million from the Mauldin-based supermarket chain.            ]]></description>
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          <title>SC site of bloody labor strike violence crumbles</title>
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All that remains of the abandoned South Carolina textile mill that was the site of the deadliest violence during a national labor strike 75 years ago are crumbling brick walls, creaky wood floors and whispers of the tragedy.           ]]></description>
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