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SC BJ's Wholesale Club closing, cutting 60 jobs
BJ's Wholesale Club of Massachusetts says it will close its store in Greenville, putting about 60 people out of work.
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New Webcam Gives View Of SC Fall Color
South Carolina's Park Service is launching a new service so folks can use the Internet to track the changing fall colors.
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Why are gas prices higher in Aiken?
Motorists may see the occasional station sporting plastic bags on their gas pumps, but it seems the shortage has almost corrected itself.
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South Pointe's Gilmore trims choices to USC, Alabama
It's down to Alabama and South Carolina for South Pointe quarterback Stephon Gilmore.
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Deep Cuts Needed in State Budget
Legislative leaders are negotiating on how to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's $7 billion budget.
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Fowler denounces 'monitoring' by Howard Rich
Former Democratic national chairman Don Fowler and 15 other South Carolinians have received warning letters from conservative activist Howard Rich that their involvement and donations to "a wide variety of ...
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Gay candidates look to set political milestones nationwide
In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov.
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South Carolina State Fair opens 12-day run
The 139th South Carolina State Fair is opening a 12-day run in Columbia, with plenty of exhibits, rides and food.
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Nuclear energy in South Carolina
Former New Jersey governor and federal environmental chief Christine Todd Whitman will discuss the future of nuclear energy in South Carolina and the U.S. Whitman will speak in Columbia on Thursday.
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Guantanamo tactics used on U.S. soil: rights group
Internal documents show the U.S. military exported the "brutal interrogation techniques" from Guantanamo prison and applied them to three terror suspects in U.S. jails, civil rights groups said Wednesday.
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DJ Am's friends announce Hollywood benefit concert
Friends of DJ AM are throwing a party to welcome the celebrity disc jockey home after he survived a fiery plane crash last month in South Carolina.
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State budget-cutting summit 'ain't fun'
COLUMBIA -- The director of the state's prison system suggested Tuesday that if his agency isn't spared in the next round of budget cuts, legislators should remove the requirement for educating prisoners so the ...
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I.C.E. agents arrest 300 at S. Carolina poultry plant
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms poultry processing plant Oct.
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Darius Rucker breaks racial barrier with No. 1 country single
Darius Rucker can play it down all he wants, but his breakthrough as a country artist makes him historic.
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T. Van Matthews is board president of the South Carolina Alzheimer's Association.
The mother of my lifelong friend has Alzheimer's disease. She turned 90 this year and for the past year has been in an assisted-living center.
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Report: Doomed S.C. Jet Was On Fire Before Stopping
A federal report says a jet that crashed last month in South Carolina, killing four people and injuring two others, was on fire as it shot across a road at the end of a runway.
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SC Gov. Sanford holds budget-fix summit
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford asked the leaders of state agencies to suggest ways to shave spending from their budgets, saying that if lawmakers make the cuts for them it could be more painful.
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300 suspected illegal immigrants picked up in South Carolina raids
Federal agents say they have detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants in a raid on a South Carolina chicken processing plant.
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Suit filed over child's death
The mother of a 5-year-old girl who died while in her father's custody has sued the federal government, saying military police and Army medical personnel failed to report their suspicions of child abuse to the ...
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$17 million gift for Furman
Furman University has announced receiving a $17 million gift it will use to help attract top students from outside South Carolina.
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