Less than $5 million insured Irene damages in SC
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Insured damages from Hurricane Irene’s brush with the South Carolina coast are expected to be less than $5 million.
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Haley, DMV Offer Free Rides to Get Photo ID
Governor Nikki Haley and the SC Department of Motor Vehicles team up to provide free transportation to citizens who do not have photo identification, as would be in line with the governor’s pending Photo ID Law put on hold by the federal government.
Sweet potatoes handed out at rural SC church
PINOPOLIS, S.C. (AP) — It’s a sweet time for residents in the rural Berkeley County community of Pinopolis as a church has a pile of sweet potatoes free for the taking.
Service in Moorhead for man who carried cross
MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — A man who has carried a large cross around the country the past 11 years will be remembered in a private funeral service Wednesday in Moorhead.
University of SC sets record in research funding
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina has set a record in raising research funding in the past year.
Concern with N. Charleston police at NAACP forum
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Some residents of North Charleston say the police department uses racial profiling, harasses people and conducts unnecessary car chases.
McConnell proposes steps to help SC finances
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell is proposing a five-point plan to keep the state “fiscally fit”
Greenville getting downtown ice rink over holidays
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The city of Greenville will have an outdoor ice skating rink downtown for the coming holiday season.
$200 stolen from donation boxes at SC church
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Another sign of the troubled economy.
SC officials to provide answers on voter ID
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina attorney general’s office has given election officials 2½ weeks to answer questions from the Justice Department on how the state would carry out its new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.
