Mt. Pleasant shooting leaves one dead, two injured (Audio)

by Michael Brown 03/12/10 10:16 AM

Three nearby schools were on lockdown yesterday in a usually quiet bedroom community near Charleston.  Thursday afternoon Mt. Pleasant Police Captain Stan Gragg says they received a call reporting gun shots heard in the area of a Mt. Pleasant apartment complex going toward Sullivans Island. Three victims were involved in the shooting. One person is dead and [...]

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First black woman elected to SC Statehouse to be laid to rest (Audio)

by William Christopher 03/12/10 4:59 AM

Funeral services will be held in Rock Hill today for Juanita Goggins, the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature, in 1974.
The 75-year-old froze to death living alone in a rented house just a few miles from the Statehouse where she made history. Her body wasn’t found for a week after her death [...]

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Committee On Aging says it will protect home care (Audio) (UPDATED FRI.)

by William Christopher 03/12/10 4:58 AM

The Joint Legislative Committee On Aging voted unanimously Thursday to protect a program that supplies food and home care for more than 5,000 home-bound elderly South Carolinians.
Horry County Senator Yancey McGill says the Committee wants the Community-Based Care program budget to remain at $2.9 million, even though the House budget proposal has cut it almost [...]

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SC Senate debates tax breaks for retail (Audio)

by Ashley Byrd 03/12/10 12:10 AM

Debate in the Senate this week centered around a new shopping center. Jasper County wants to offer state tax breaks for the Sembler Company to build a retail mall. Read bill
Jasper Senator Clementa Pinckney’s argument: what’s good for Boeing and other manufacturing companies is good for large scale commercial development. His area needs the jobs, [...]

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US House Republicans support ban on earmarks

by William Christopher 03/11/10 8:35 PM

Republicans hoping to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to support an across-the-board, one-year ban on earmarks.  Among those in favor of the moratorium was Representative Bob Inglis.
“This is an opportunity to correct a mistake of our past majority.  People at home understand that when you have only enough money to cover entitlement [...]

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