South Carolina News
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Once-revered SC lawmaker freezes to death alone
1:17 PM on 03/11/2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House...
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Graves hold key to earliest slaves
3:50 PM on 03/03/2010
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Research shows the first black people settled in South Carolina in the 1600s. They were slaves brought with white settlers....
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South Carolina pol backtracks on apology for 'stray animals' remark about welfare recipients
9:32 AM on 02/19/2010
Andre Bauer, the Lt. Governor of South Carolina who had apologized for equating welfare recipients to stray animals, appears to be taking back that show of contrition...
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TheGrio's 100: Bakari Sellers, a political star in the making
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Bakari Sellers is just 25 years old, but he's already made it into the history books...
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SC politician's 'stray animals' welfare remark called 'immoral'
12:01 PM on 01/26/2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Andre Bauer recently compared children on public assistance to 'stray animals'...
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GOP candidate: People on public assistance are like 'stray animals'
1:03 PM on 01/25/2010
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said Saturday he could have chosen his words more carefully...
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In the South, black schools restored as landmarks
3:55 PM on 01/14/2010
From NYTimes.com Until 1923, the only school in the largely black farm settlement of Pine Grove was the one hand-built by parents, a drafty wooden structure in the churchyard. Anyone who could read and write could serve as teacher. With no desks and paper scarce, teachers used painted wood for...
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Black Civil War troops to get recognition in South Carolina
3:57 PM on 01/06/2010
The treasure hunter who discovered remains on Folly Island 23 years ago is working to have a historical marker put at the site of the first graves of 19 Union soldiers.
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South Carolina toddler killed in drive-by shooting
2:51 PM on 11/10/2009
WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting...
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Man jailed for having sex with a horse
1:40 PM on 11/04/2009
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) - A man caught having sex with a horse in a South Carolina stable has been sentenced to three years in prison...
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South Carolina board pardons Tom Joyner's ancestors
1:35 PM on 10/14/2009
VIDEO - Two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner, sent to the electric chair for the 1913 murder of a Confederate Army veteran...
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Sharecropper's daughter becomes 1st woman to lead Army drill sergeants
5:10 PM on 09/18/2009
FORT JACKSON, South Carolina (AP) - Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King can dress down a burly, battle-hardened sergeant in seconds ...
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South Carolina man takes 1973 Pontiac with him to the grave
7:35 AM on 09/09/2009
VIDEO - The bond between a man and his car is one that can't be broken. Even by death.
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Lottery winner says $260M won't change his life
4:21 PM on 08/26/2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- "For once in my life, I really experienced the old saying, pinch me to see if I'm still alive, or if this is real," Solomon Jackson Jr. said...
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Original All-Stars strike out with championship, then film deal
2:01 PM on 07/30/2009
It's the kind of story they make movies about. A team of young boys denied the opportunity to play baseball because of the color of their skin. The problem: there is a movie being made, but the men who made up the famous Cannon Street All-Stars weren't consulted...
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SC Republican issues apology for Michelle Obama gorilla comment
7:20 PM on 06/17/2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A former South Carolina election official apologized Wednesday for his Internet posting that compared a gorilla to an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama, calling...
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SC Republican refers to gorilla as one of Michelle Obama's "ancestors" (video)
8:50 AM on 06/15/2009
A Republican activist in South Carolina is under fire for comments he made on Facebook about first lady Michelle Obama. The story first hit the blog fitsnews.com with a headline reading "SC GOP activist posts remark disparaging first lady." The activist is Rusty DePass, a former state senate candidate and...
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Funeral home has licenses revoked after cutting legs to fit corpse in casket (video)
10:22 AM on 06/03/2009
JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- Authorities in South Carolina revoked the licenses of a funeral home and its director after he admitted one of his employees cut the legs of a 6-foot-7 (2-meter) man without the family's permission so the corpse would fit in a...
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South Carolina slave cabins housed family through '60s
8:13 AM on 06/03/2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Eighty-six-year-old Johnnie Leach leans on his cane as he sits in warm sunshine on the steps of the old slave cabin where he raised 13 children four decades ago...
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Attention from Obama gets SC school makeover (video)
9:11 AM on 05/04/2009
May 4, 2009 - Dillon, South Carolina After national attention from president Obama, a rural South Carolina school gets an extreme makeover. The Dillon, South Carolina junior high students arrived this morning to find the interior of their run-down school completely re-furbished. Chicago based Sagus International provided everything from new...
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