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Lawmakers consider whether to break up public health agency

Mar 30, 2021 3:57 PM EDT

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South Carolina lawmakers will hold hearings this spring on a bill to split up the state’s sprawling public health and environmental agency. A proposal by Senate President Harvey Peeler Tuesday would separate the Department of Health and Environmental Control into two new cabinet-level agencies.

Former SC governor, congressman Sanford joins lobbying firm

Mar 30, 2021 3:28 PM EDT

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Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor, congressman and one-time presidential candidate, is going to work for a lobbying firm. Shumaker Advisors announced Tuesday that Sanford would be joining the firm, working from Charleston.

Supreme Court case could change the nature of college sports

Mar 30, 2021 11:35 AM EDT

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A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars.

Man shot to death in food court inside Philadelphia mall

Mar 30, 2021 5:36 AM EDT

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One person is dead following a shooting inside the food court of a Philadelphia mall Monday evening, police said.

Logano takes the checkered flag in a haze of Bristol dirt

Mar 29, 2021 8:02 PM EDT

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Somewhere under the thick red haze floating over Bristol Motor Speedway, Joey Logano took the checkered flag for NASCAR’s first Cup Series race at a dirt track in 50 years.

South Carolina must give year-end tests in person at schools

Mar 29, 2021 5:20 PM EDT

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The federal government has denied South Carolina’s request to skip formal in-person testing at the end of the school year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Texas’ Vic Schaefer must get through South Carolina – again

Mar 29, 2021 4:28 PM EDT

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In a career of major milestones and championship achievements, Texas coach Vic Schaefer just can’t seem to get past South Carolina when it counts the most.

Appellate court arguments set for Charleston church shooter

Mar 29, 2021 3:35 PM EDT

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Attorneys for the man sentenced to federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation are set to formally argue that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.