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          <title>Fireworks truck explodes; one dead, four injured</title>
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A truck carrying fireworks exploded at Ocracoke Island&#8217;s South Ferry Terminal Saturday morning, killing one person and critically injuring four others, according to Hyde County authorities.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lumbees want river renamed</title>
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The winding black river that flows through Robeson County has carried the name Lumber River for nearly two centuries. Lumbee leaders want to change that. They want the river to return to its ancestral name - Lumbee River.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cherokee County serial killings generating anonymous tips</title>
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The fear generated in Cherokee County over four murders by a serial killer has the phone ringing almost constantly at Crimestoppers in Columbia, which is handling all anonymous tips in the cases.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Arrest made in Lumberton fatal shooting</title>
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One man has been arrested and another is being sought in a fatal shooting at the Turner Place housing area last month, police said Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>More Brunswick inmates test positive for TB</title>
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More inmates at the Brunswick County jail have tested positive for tuberculosis, health officials said Thursday. More than 400 inmates and workers were tested this week for the bacterial infection after officials learned two inmates had contracted the disease, which can be contagious.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fire engulfs gym at Douglas Byrd Middle</title>
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Fayetteville firefighters battled a fire Wednesday that engulfed Douglas Byrd Middle School&#8217;s gymnasium, collapsing the roof. Firefighters responded to a 911 call at the Ireland Drive school about 10 p.m., according to Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Cumberland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CBRA maps causing officials heartburn</title>
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It&#8217;s a line on a map that could make it more difficult for private property owners to develop or rebuild their homes and for towns to build public waterfront access areas or find sand for beach nourishment.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tabor City man charged with rape of 14 year old in North Myrtle Beach</title>
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North Myrtle Beach police have arrested a man they say robbed three teenagers at gunpoint and raped one of them, a 14-year-old girl.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:44:30 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Lumberton Police investigate deadly shooting</title>
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Man killed late Saturday night in parking lot of housing project on Lumberton&#8217;s south side.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:14:30 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Meadors leaving UNC&#45;Pembroke</title>
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Chancellor to return to alma mater in Arkansas.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fire destroys fertilizer plant</title>
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No one hurt as firefighters let plant burn on Sunday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cutter Eagle sails into Charleston, changes command</title>
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The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle conducted a change of command ceremony at the passenger terminal Saturday morning.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Nurtured opossums released back into wild</title>
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Two months and two days after four tiny opossums unexpectedly entered her life, Dawn Bugni released the creatures into the wild.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Lifeguards back on patrol at Fort Fisher beach</title>
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Safety concerns have prompted the state to return lifeguards to the Fort Fisher State Recreation Area, and visitors and park officials couldn&#8217;t be happier.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Messages from the former NCSU leader have been subpoenaed but cannot be found</title>
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N.C. State University told prosecutors Wednesday that it can&#8217;t locate high-priority e-mail messages from former Chancellor James Oblinger, raising questions about the university&#8217;s response to public records requests involving the hiring of former first lady Mary Easley.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Scotland names new superintendent</title>
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The Scotland County Board of Education on Wednesday named Rick Stout superintendent of the school system.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Divers head off NC to survey Civil War ironclad</title>
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Divers are heading out to sea to begin a survey of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor wreckage 16 miles off the North Carolina coast.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Latta man gunned down in Lumberton housing area</title>
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A South Carolina man was shot to death Saturday while driving in a custom-car caravan through the Turner Place housing area. It happened about 11 p.m., said Sgt. Howard Reeves of the Lumberton Police Department.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rapid growth a factor in Cooperative Bank&#8217;s demise</title>
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Why did Cooperative Bank fail and other institutions survive the debacle that befell Southeastern North Carolina&#8217;s real estate development industry? Conservative is a word that came up Monday &#8211; as what the bank was not in recent years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Renowned Charleston blacksmith dies at 97</title>
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Philip Simmons, whose skill with the hammer and anvil elevated him from a humble working man to an artisan widely recognized as a national treasure, died Monday night. He was 97. The renowned blacksmith died in his sleep at Bishop Gadsden retirement home surrounded by family.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Powerball ticket worth $88 million was sold in Charlotte area</title>
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There was one question just about everybody in Kings Mountain wanted answered Sunday: Who bought the winning Powerball ticket worth $88.1 million?           ]]></description>
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          <title>Preserving a forgotten Statehouse</title>
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South Carolina&#8217;s final Statehouse during the Confederate era resembles a Lost Cause these days.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Prosecutor Evans&#8217; death shocks SC</title>
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One of South Carolina&#8217;s toughest prosecutors &#8212; a woman who sent con men, drug dealers and dog fight breeders to prison &#8212; has died at 41. Jennifer Evans, head of the state attorney general&#8217;s criminal section and chief prosecutor for the state grand jury, died unexpectedly in North Carolina over the weekend, Attorney General Henry McMaster said Sunday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>1 killed in Robeson County plant explosion</title>
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One person was killed and four were injured this morning in a plant explosion at the Mountaire Farms chicken processing plant off N.C. 71. Charles Britt, the emergency services director for Robeson County, confirmed that one person was killed in the explosion, which is believed to have been caused by an ammonia leak.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cooperative Bank closes, will reopen Monday as First Bank</title>
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Federal regulators shut down Cooperative Bank on Friday &#8211; the second Wilmington bank to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. closed Cooperative&#8217;s 24 branches and took control of its $774 million in deposits, according to a Friday news release.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Stimulus money not creating jobs in S.C. yet</title>
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One of the main goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was to save or create 3.5 million jobs nationwide. But after $332 million in stimulus money has made it to South Carolina so far, it isn&#8217;t creating any jobs, said Richard Eckstrom, the state&#8217;s Comptroller General and chairman of the state Stimulus Oversight Task Force.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin fire under control</title>
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The fire on board the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin was declared controlled at about 2 p.m. today. The ship caught fire at Detyens Shipyard, where it and the Cutter Dallas have been since the end of March for a combined estimated $15 million in repair work.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Women charged with prostitution at Brunswick County businesses</title>
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Some were dressed in plain clothes, some wore barely anything. A few of the women tried to hide their faces from cameras, but most didn&#8217;t bother. One by one they were taken to jail early Friday. Nearly a dozen women, employees of spas and dance clubs, which Brunswick County sheriff&#8217;s deputies allege are engaging in prostitution.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Signs, commercials aimed at educating South Carolina drivers</title>
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The state of South Carolina has put up new highway signs and is running public service announcements on television to make sure everyone knows about a law that&#8217;s been on the book for years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>One killed in Columbus County small plane crash</title>
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The pilot of a single-engine plane died Thursday night when his aircraft crashed moments after taking off from a field just south of Chadbourn, said Kay Worley, the deputy director of Columbus County Emergency Services.           ]]></description>
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          <title>SC jobseekers line up to clean nuclear waste</title>
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Anthony Rivers was laid off from his maintenance job three weeks ago and is willing to do just about anything to rejoin the ranks of the employed in South Carolina &#8212; even if that means cleaning up nuclear waste.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Brazilian ship helps rescue crew off NC coast</title>
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The U.S. Coast Guard says a Brazilian navy sailing ship has helped the crew of a disabled sailboat about 200 miles off the North Carolina coast.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Big NC families must verify dependents</title>
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The N.C. Department of Revenue dispatched letters this year to 6,700 North Carolina taxpayers who claimed a large number of dependents, at least five children, on their taxes. The tax agency&#8217;s message was simple: Prove it.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Community to pay respects for Charleston firefighters killed in 2007 blaze</title>
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As the midday sun beat down Wednesday, a trio of somber men trudged across a soggy, open field clutching bundles of crisp, new American flags in their hands.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Former SC election leader apologizes for gorilla comment about first lady</title>
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The South Carolina NAACP called a news conference Wednesday to demand a proper apology from Rusty DePass, former chairman of the state Election Commission and former chairman of the Richland County Republican Party, whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.           ]]></description>
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Fairmont police hope a $5,000 reward will lead to information in a year-old murder case. Willie Christie was found dead in his home on Mulberry Street on May 20, 2008. He was a janitor at Fairmont Middle School. He was 55.           ]]></description>
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Two weeks from today, Allen Meadors will be sitting behind his president&#8217;s desk plotting a new course for the University of Central Arkansas.           ]]></description>
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The Brunswick County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrested an elementary school teacher and a 52-year-old man on drug-related charges Monday as part of an ongoing investigation.           ]]></description>
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Adela &#8220;Nell&#8221; Pinckney was lying in bed at her Hampton Street home late Monday when a shotgun blast tore through her bedroom window and headboard, killing the 38-year-old mother of four.           ]]></description>
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When Joseph Carnevale chopped up three stolen orange and white traffic barrels from a construction site to create a massive sculpture of a roadside monster thumbing a ride, the North Carolina college student said he saw it as a form of street art.           ]]></description>
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Two men were killed during a fight early Monday at a home on Howard Circle, according to Robeson County Sheriff Kenneth Sealey.           ]]></description>
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County commissioners welcomed six new employers to southeastern North Carolina on Monday night, a sign that the times are not gloomy for all. The six businesses, which have recently opened plants or are working to begin operations in Brunswick County, represent 75 to 80 new jobs and $3.5 million in investments, Brunswick economic development director Jim Bradshaw told commissioners.           ]]></description>
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The Richland County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is the first in the state to begin using a new technology to find stolen cars and stolen license tags. It&#8217;s a camera and computer system called the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, which uses two cameras mounted on the patrol car and a laptop computer inside.           ]]></description>
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A possible tornado snapped trees and damaged homes in Bladen County on Monday evening, and one woman said she had to be rescued from her mobile home.           ]]></description>
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 The pain on Angie Northcutt&#8217;s face hadn&#8217;t changed in the nearly six years since she last testified in a Lexington County courtroom. In tearful testimony Monday, the Lexington County woman relived the ordeal of finding her 4-month-old daughter Breanna&#8217;s battered, lifeless body after returning home from work to her Red Bank-area home the evening of Jan. 7, 2001.           ]]></description>
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The troubled economy may lead more coastal residents to head to shelters or simply hunker down at home rather than drive inland if storms threaten them this hurricane season, Gov. Mark Sanford said Monday.           ]]></description>
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If a hurricane hits South Carolina this summer, some utilities will use Twitter to update customers about power outages and safety messages.           ]]></description>
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The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says Monday is the deadline for applying for an alligator hunting license.           ]]></description>
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Some outside organizations that get money in Brunswick County&#8217;s budget are also seeing extra funding from the individual commissioners through something called discretionary funds.            ]]></description>
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Tim Holt was among the men and women who wove fabric and prosperity here for generations, until the textile factories left town in a global manufacturing shift that the rest of the country hardly seemed to notice.           ]]></description>
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Two women died and one man was taken to the hospital after a high speed crash in North Carolina.
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The Robeson County Board of Education voted during a special meeting Thursday not to renew contracts for 90 retired teachers.           ]]></description>
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On June 3, James B. Lee Jr. took a break from his heating and air-conditioning job to eat lunch at Subway with his girlfriend. When he left the restaurant in the blue-roofed strip-mall on North College Road, a man wearing a white shirt, tie and slacks followed him and asked what he had in his back pocket.           ]]></description>
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A Western Lowland gorilla escaped from its enclosure at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia on Friday morning and was loose inside the zoo for five minutes. It attacked one food service employee and then returned to its exhibit on its own.           ]]></description>
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Riverbanks Zoo &amp; Gardens in Columbia is open again after a gorilla escaped from its enclosure this morning. A spokesperson at Riverbanks says the animal was recaptured after being out for about 45 minutes.           ]]></description>
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Mary Easley won&#8217;t be getting a fat buyout from N.C. State University, nor even the minimum severance that university policy apparently allows. &#8220;It&#8217;s zero,&#8220; interim Chancellor Jim Woodward said during a news conference Thursday. &#8220;It was my decision there will be no additional pay.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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When nightfall arrived Wednesday, Liebling Brothers Family Circus staff member Jim Robinson was stationed in his usual place under the circus&#8217; 38-foot-tall big top tent.           ]]></description>
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Allen Meadors offered a job at his alma mater, University of Central Arkansas.           ]]></description>
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Most undergraduates at the University of South Carolina students will pay 3.6 percent more for tuition this fall - an increase of around $300 a year for the school&#8217;s largest campus.           ]]></description>
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In scenes more reminiscent of &#8220;Finding Nemo&#8221; than of &#8220;Jaws,&#8220; vacationers at the Wild Dunes resort have been sharing the water with some non-paying guests: sharks.            ]]></description>
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State inmates will have a clear picture come this Friday, as the Department of Corrections has completed the digital conversion at all but one of the state&#8217;s prisons.           ]]></description>
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A dazed Harold Harris looked up and saw the roof of the Slim Jim snack factory falling down. The doorway was buried in debris. People were crying and screaming.           ]]></description>
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Nineteen high school students from across South Carolina and one from Martinez, Georgia are spending the week at the University of South Carolina to learn about and get hands-on experience in the new field of bionanotechnology.           ]]></description>
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One stops traffic on River Road near Snows Cut while another alligator decides to chill, to the delight of tourists, just a few feet from Wilmington&#8217;s popular Riverwalk.           ]]></description>
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Anthony Spruill was driving his forklift when an explosion rocked ConAgra&#8217;s Slim Jim plant Tuesday, blowing out walls, pulling down the roof , crushing cars with falling debris, and killing two of his co-workers .           ]]></description>
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Yvette Williams&#8217; funeral started off with a prayer. The nearly 200 people who attended Tuesday afternoon came with mixed emotions and questions, but they crowded around the 15-year-old&#8217;s pink casket to praise God and celebrate the teenager&#8217;s life.           ]]></description>
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North Carolina State University fired former first lady Mary Easley from her $170,000-a-year job Monday as newly released documents indicated her husband was involved in her hiring.           ]]></description>
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Low-income senior citizens in South Carolina who qualify for help paying for their prescription drugs will be getting a little more help starting July 1.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tells U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a letter that he&#8217;s only requesting federal stimulus cash for the state&#8217;s schools because of a court order.           ]]></description>
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As alligator mating season blooms, an ever increasing number of the reptiles is ending up on front porches, in swimming pools and in backyards of Beaufort County homes. 

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The electric fence didn&#8217;t prove a deterrent. Neither did shooting a couple of the interlopers. So when Brunswick County farmer Pearly Vereen was looking for a better way to protect his livestock from coyotes, he turned to an animal known more for its stubbornness than its ability as a strange-looking guard dog.           ]]></description>
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A South Carolina golf course is about to reopen its closing hole, which had been washed away by beach erosion. The Wild Dunes Club at the Isle of Palms will reopen its par-5, 18th hole to the public on Friday.           ]]></description>
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Worshippers at two Columbia area churches are being asked to leave the sanctuary in their bare feet.
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Lifeguards at Carolina Beach have a new system of waterproof colored wristbands to help lost children find their parents.
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With the S.C. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on Thursday ordering Gov. Mark Sanford to apply for the $700 million in disputed federal stimulus money brings to close one of the hottest debates of his governorship: how much power should the governor have?           ]]></description>
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Like smoking, defending tobacco just isn&#8217;t cool anymore. Just ask GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, home to tobacco giants RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Lorillard Tobacco Co., and thousands of their employees.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina is selling money to make money. State officials have quietly picked through boxes of Civil War state currency and auctioned it on eBay, providing the state archives with an influx of cash amid tight budgets.           ]]></description>
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On Wednesday, the House passed legislation granting the recognition, deciding in favor of the bill, with a vote of 240 to 179.           ]]></description>
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In the half-century since the surgeon general issued his culture-changing report linking smoking to lung cancer, the tobacco industry has had little trouble defeating efforts to regulate cigarettes and other products. That could change this year.           ]]></description>
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A Clemson University administrator has caused a stir with remarks about the school&#8217;s all-out efforts to improve its position in a magazine&#8217;s national rankings, saying the school sometimes walked an ethical tightrope.           ]]></description>
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With the pageantry of a high school prom, nearly two dozen sea turtles were returned to their ocean home on Wednesday in the largest single release from the Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center since it opened more than a decade ago.           ]]></description>
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Bill would bring federal money to American Indian tribe headquartered in Robeson County           ]]></description>
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A federal judge has given a bit of wiggle room to tight restrictions on beach driving designed to protected endangered birds and turtles on North Carolina&#8217;s Outer Banks.
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No one suspected that the man at the state lottery claim center in Mount Pleasant on Monday was holding a $1 million ticket.            ]]></description>
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Seventy-two South Carolina high school seniors are graduating with 12 years of perfect attendance, including ten students from the Grand Strand and Pee Dee.           ]]></description>
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New Hanover County school and health officials on Monday sought to calm the nerves of parents rattled by last week&#8217;s announcement that four students had come down with swine flu, also known as the novel H1N1 virus.

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Greenville native Michael Harris, 60, is a geologist with Devon Energy and he and his wife, living in Rio De Janeiro, were headed to Paris for a conference and vacation. According to Anne Harris&#8217; sister, Mary Miley, Anne Harris is a native of Lafayette, La., and Michael attended Clemson University.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina&#8217;s annual Teacher Expo to match teachers with school districts that have job openings looked a lot different this year. There were a lot more out-of-work teachers and a lot fewer school districts with job openings.           ]]></description>
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Like Hilton Head, Pawleys Island had allowed dogs to roam the beaches leash-free during certain times of the year, as long as the animals were under voice control. But unlike Hilton Head, Pawleys Island changed its law May 11.
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South Carolina&#8217;s annual job fair for teachers is expected to draw thousands of jobseekers vying for far fewer classroom openings.           ]]></description>
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Hurricane season starts today, raising the curtain on a cast of characters and a host of contraptions that wireless phone providers promise will keep their customers chatting if a storm rolls through.            ]]></description>
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Myron and Nancy Britt appeared to be the perfect couple. Two people whose talent and professionalism carried them far in their careers.           ]]></description>
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As the 2009 hurricane season arrives, many homeowners are finding insurance is either more expensive, or harder to get.           ]]></description>
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Fields and courts at Duplin County high schools could be empty next year. With the board of education and the county commissioners at odds, middle and high school athletes could be the ones who lose out. As the commissioners consider restricting their local funding for the district, the schools face the possibility of losing all funds to athletic programs.           ]]></description>
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State budget cuts have hurt state agencies, but they could help you save money if you&#8217;re in the market for a computer, furniture or anything else at the state&#8217;s Surplus Property warehouse.           ]]></description>
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A prosecutor said Thursday she will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing eight people during a shooting rampage at a nursing home in central North Carolina.           ]]></description>
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With the average U.S. bridge approaching time for replacement, researchers at the University of South Carolina said Thursday that they&#8217;ll work with a team of experts to develop a quicker method of detecting cracks and early signs of wear on the structures.           ]]></description>
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South Carolina&#8217;s top prosecutor wants to weigh in on a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of religious license plates.
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An alligator hanging out on a downtown bank of the Cape Fear River became a tourist attraction Wednesday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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