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Obama camp cites SC school invites to Ayers

AP — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:41:05 +0000

Barack Obama’s campaign is citing the University of South Carolina’s speaking invitations to William Ayers and Republican Gov. Mark Sanford’s role as school trustee to counter GOP efforts to link the presidential candidate to the...

SC Dem chief says sorry for Palin-abortion comment

AP — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:57 +0000

South Carolina’s Democratic Party chairwoman said Wednesday that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s top qualification seems to be not having had an abortion. She later...

Coastal Carolina, Chas. Southern may move games

AP — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:31:41 +0000

Coastal Carolina and Charleston Southern may reschedule their home games Saturday because of Tropical Storm Hanna.

South Carolina breaks ground for a farmers market

AP — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:44:27 +0000

South Carolina agriculture officials say the new State Farmers Market should be finished by the time the tomatoes and peaches ripen in late spring 2010.

SC father accused of killing teenager at party

AP — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:22:28 +0000

A South Carolina man shot an unarmed teenager to death after a scuffle at a weekend party thrown by his children, then shot two teens involved in a retaliatory shooting at his home, authorities said...

Arson probed at SC prosecutor's after court burns

AP — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:01:07 +0000

Officials were investigating a suspicious fire that gutted the prosecutor’s office in this rural county Thursday, three days after an arsonist torched the historic courthouse just half a block...

Clemson, South Carolina start football camp

AP — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:48:15 +0000

Clemson took the practice field Friday with one of the country’s best freshmen and some of the largest expectations to hit Tigertown since its national championship nearly three...

Prosecutors want to commit man, 78, in cop deaths

AP — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:11:35 +0000

Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday but said they want a 78-year-old man committed to a mental hospital after he was found incompetent to stand trial for killing two South Carolina law officers.The decision by solicitor Jerry Peace came a...

SC senator criticized for blog posting about Obama

AP — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:26:40 +0000

A Republican state senator is being criticized for a post on his blog that shows photos of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden wearing similar clothing, along with a line that says the difference between them is “a little B.S.”The image...

SC gov: Confederate flag dispute not a priority

AP — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:16:15 +0000

Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that a new push by the NAACP to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Statehouse won’t be a priority during his final years in office.Trying to open the way for a compromise on...