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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

NAEP math report card: SC below national average

by Tom Hayes on October 14, 2009

in Education, News

The National Assessment of Educational Progress known as NAEP (pronounced nape) has released “The Nation’s Report Card: Mathematics 2009.” The report outlines the performance of the nation’s  fourth and eighth grade students. It shows that the states’s students before and after middle school are, on-the-average, operating slightly below average. [click to continue…]

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Corrections Department 100 percent at fugitive recovery

by Ashley Byrd 10/14/09 5:01 PM

Three inmates from three different corrections facilities walked away from work detail last week. They are now in a maximum security prison. The state corrections department had 13 escapes last year, ten of those from low security situations. All thirteen were apprehended.
Add to that the three now captured from last week. Josh Gelinas of the Corrections department says [...]

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Morris College gets $1.5 federal grant

by Susan Trautsch 10/14/09 4:36 PM

A $1.5 million dollar grant has been secured by Sumter’s Morris College, as appropriated in the Energy and Water Appropriations Act.
Congressman John Spratt of the Fifth Congressional District announced a $1.5 million grant for Morris College in Sumter to be used for the construction of a new wing with classroom and laboratory space. Dr. Luns [...]

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Highest court begins hearing water case issue

by Tom Hayes 10/14/09 11:01 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court finally began hearings on the question of intervenors being added to the case involving the lawsuit South Carolina has brought against North Carolina in a battle over the usage of water from the Catawba River. During an hour-long hearing Tuesday, the court began hearing arguments on whether three intervenors should be [...]

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Hunter sentenced for killing teenager

by Michael Brown 10/14/09 10:59 AM

A South Carolina man was sentenced this week for the shooting death of a teenager killed in the woods last year. Sixteen-year-old Joshua Gainey was shot and killed on October 2, 2008. Now, more than a year later, 53-year-old Dennis Hall of Rowesville has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for shooting Gainey while he was [...]

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