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| Identification of remains may be close |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 11:27 pm |
| The human remains found Thursday on Beecliff Drive are those of a male, and authorities are getting closer to a possible ID, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said Friday.Watts declined to release the name, citing the continuing investigation. But he said a Richland County cold-case detective passed along a tip about a man who has been missing |
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| All lanes closed on Huger Street section |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 11:27 pm |
| All lanes of Huger Street between Blossom and Wheat streets have been closed to repair the sinkhole that developed earlier this week, according to a release from the S.C. Department of Transportation.The repairs are expected to be completed by Sept. 6, barring any unforeseen delays. Only residents, business owners and employees in the immediate |
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| Missing UAH student found in Atlanta |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 11:05 pm |
| Tags: Breaking News |
| Torrie Rae Hoult, a 22-year-old student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who went missing Aug. 16, has been found safe in Atlanta, according to a university spokesman. .staff reportsTorrie Hoult, a UAH student who went missing Aug. 16,... |
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| Explosion injures two Anderson men inside car |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| Two men are being treated for first- and second-degree burns after Anderson police say a lit cigarette caused the car in which they were huffing aerosol chemicals to explode.Anderson police say a 34-year-old Georgia man and a 19-year-old Conastee man were in a car huffing computer keyboard cleaner near the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Complex |
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| Studying Judaism pays off for youths |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| ATLANTA — AishCafe’s flashy Web presence makes it look more like a gambling site than the religious experience it is.There are interactive animations, clickable icons and even a mock iPhone to lure in Jewish college students. And, like gambling, it could pay to play.The site, run by Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish educational network |
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| Bid for new heart hospital dealt blow |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| The State Health Planning Committee nixed a change to the State Health Plan that would have allowed a new open-heart surgery unit at Lexington Medical Center.A 6-6 deadlock means the planning committee will recommend the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control board move forward in approving the new 2008 State Health Plan in |
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| Beaufort County lawyer wants client tried as a juvenile |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| The lawyer for a man who authorities say ran a scam with his girlfriend in which she claimed to be pregnant with quintuplets says his client was 16 when arrested and shouldn’t be tried as an adult.Attorney Lee Bowers showed Juan Salvador Solis’ Mexican birth certificate at a hearing Thursday, The Beaufort Gazette reported. A judge |
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| City employee to be featured on telethon |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| A Columbia employee will be featured on the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon at 9 p.m. Sunday night on WOLO.Elron Davis, a supervisor with the 911 dispatch center, has limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscle disease. A profile of Davis will air during the 2½-hour telethon, followed by a live appearance from a |
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| Aiken County volunteer firefighter charged with arson |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| A firefighter accused of setting a series of fires in the Aiken County area has been arrested.Brandon W. Smith, 19, was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts of second-degree arson and malicious injury to real property, the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office said.Smith is a volunteer firefighter with the New Ellenton Fire Department, the |
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| Republicans in S.C. praise Palin |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| South Carolina Republicans gave enthusiastic approval Friday to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, U.S. Sen. John McCain’s choice for vice president.Palin appeals to broad swaths of state Republicans for pushing reform in Alaska, opposing abortion and supporting gun rights. Though state Republicans were already strongly behind McCain, the Palin choice |
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| Police blotters |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| LEXINGTON COUNTY SHERIFFAugusta Road, 3800 block: A man was arrested at 10 a.m. Tuesday after witnesses said he tried to steal a golf cart’s steering wheel. Store employees told deputies the 21-year-old looked to be browsing through the store when someone saw him slip the steering wheel under his shirt and then try to leave. Witnesses said |
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| Suicide in ER: Armed officer had been on job for 2 months |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| The corrections officer whose gun was taken and used by a woman to commit suicide in Palmetto Health Richland’s emergency room Tuesday had been on the job for two months.But the female officer, whom the department declined to identify, had completed all the necessary training requirements, according to department spokesman Josh Gelinas.Two |
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| Rescuing Mister Rogers: A friend in the ‘neighborhood’ |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| When Columbia father Brian Linder heard that after 40 years of charming youngsters, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” was entering semi-retirement, he sprang into action faster than Speedy Delivery with a campaign to encourage viewers to contact their local stations.PBS announced in June that it was dropping the famous |
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| Sheriff identifies juvenile suspect |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| Richland County sheriff’s deputies took the rare step of obtaining a court order to release the name of a 15-year-old boy they are seeking in connection with a string of armed robberies and assaults in the county and city.Valtori Chapman-Hopkins is wanted on charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault, Sheriff’s Department |
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| Bus crash injures students |
| Published: August 29, 2008, 10:41 pm |
| 26 pupils, two drivers treated and released at hospitalAs the driver of her school bus prepared to turn onto Airport Boulevard Friday morning, Jessica Kennedy said, she realized something bad was going to happen.“I saw it coming, so I leaned over toward the person sitting next to me,” said Kennedy, 19, a senior at Airport High.A split |
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