From the daily archives:

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

If you receive two unemployment checks, you might want to hold off cashing them both. Approximately 1,250 unemployment checks were duplicated in error over the Sunday.

South Carolina Employment Security Commission spokesman Clark Newsome says as usual, around 40,000 checks were sent out in one day.  “We always have some checks that are kicked out of the system because of an address problem or something like that.  But those were reprinted with identical numbers.  It was human error, but that has never happened in the many years that I’ve been here.”  [click to continue…]

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Conditions poor at many facilities for the disabled

by William Christopher 07/21/09 8:43 PM

The South Carolina agency known as Protection and Advocacy has released a shocking study on residential care facilities for people with disabilities after a 14 month-long investigation. The report is titled ?No Place to Call Home.?
Protection and Advocacy Executive Director Gloria Provost is calling for immediate action by the state to protect suffering residents.
Provost says [...]

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Gov. Sanford: Time to move on

by Michael Brown 07/21/09 4:41 PM

Making his first public appearance since his announcement of an extramarital affair, Governor Mark Sanford stopped by the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Greer Tuesday to voice his concerns over the PASS ID law. As expected, the affair was the hot topic of discussion, and Sanford said its time to move on.

Gov. Sanford
“I made [...]

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Senate hearings begin next week on Sanford spending

by William Christopher 07/21/09 3:38 PM

The South Carolina Senate Finance Subcommittee will meet next week in Columbia to review the state spending habits of Governor Mark Sanford. 
Greenville’s David Thomas chairs the panel that has oversight of the constitutional offices’ budgets.  He says, “The issue concerning the governor involves expenditure of funds and whether some of those expenditures were proper or [...]

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Safety priority no. 1 when swimming

by Eric Guimaraes 07/21/09 1:16 PM

South Carolinians love their summers and have become well-versed in measures to beat the heat. As the temperature rises, more individuals tend make their way to bodies of water, which are plentiful in the Palmetto State. With that, water-related fatalities are occurring more regularly across the state. Department of Natural Resources spokesman and host of [...]

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