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Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, addresses the crowd during a rally at the Statehouse Monday Jan. 16, 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Hundreds of people rallied Monday outside the South Carolina capitol to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and protest the state's voter identification law. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

SC rally marks MLK day with voting rights message

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 5:20pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn't have been out of place during the halcyon days of the civil rights movement a half-century ago: the need to protect all citizens' right to vote.

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Mormon bashing part of dirty politics in SC

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 6:11pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In mailboxes across South Carolina in 2007, likely Republican voters received a Christmas card signed by "The Romney Family" with a quotation from a 19th century Mormon leader suggesting God had several wives.

Mitt Romney's campaign, just a few weeks away from the 2008 presidential primary in a state where evangelicals look skeptically on the former Massachusetts governor's Mormon faith, condemned the bogus card as politics at its worst. The sender never took credit. And it was just another anonymous shot in the endless volleys of nasty campaigning in South Carolina.

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Business-friendly SC may forgive Romney's job cuts

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 12:27pm

LEXINGTON, S.C. -- At first glance, South Carolina seems like a place where attacks on Mitt Romney's experience at the helm of a venture capital firm that cut jobs would resonate in the GOP primary.

The state's unemployment rate hasn't been below 9 percent in three years and a third of its manufacturing jobs have disappeared in the last decade.

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A mobil home is destroyed Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 at the AAA Mobil Home Park in Thomasville, N.C. Suspected tornadoes were reported Wednesday in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Dozens of homes and buildings were damaged and thousands of people were without power as trees and power lines were downed. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Sonny Hedgecock)

4 dead, dozens hurt as storms pound the Southeast

Bob Johnson, Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 10:20am

ROCK HILL, S.C. -- A strong storm system that produced several possible tornadoes hit the Southeast on Wednesday, damaging dozens of homes and buildings. At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured.

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(The Associated Press) In this combo made from file images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows two of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012. Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, over the new graphic cigarette labels, saying the warnings violate their free speech rights and will cost millions of dollars to print.

Tobacco companies file lawsuit over warning labels

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 7:12am

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost millions to produce.

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NASCAR icon Gibbs tells SC inmates to trust God

Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 4:09pm

TURBEVILLE, S.C. -- NFL Hall of Fame coach and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs told a group of 600 South Carolina inmates that they can find a second chance in religion.

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Cold snap gripping Gulf states threatens Fla. crop

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 1:59pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- An unusual Southern cold snap continued its grip on the Gulf states on Wednesday as Florida farmers worked to salvage millions of dollars worth of crops and sun-seeking tourists were met with chilly temperatures expected to last through the weekend.

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Winter system drops record snow, chills the South

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 4, 2010 - 3:44pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A bitter chill is settling in across the eastern half of the country, threatening crops, closing schools and making Charleston, S.C., feel more like New York City.

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(The Associated Press) Shaw Air Force Base Col. Joseph Guestella, right, commander of the 20th Fighter Wing and Lt. Col. Lance Kildron, commander of the 77th Fighter Squadron, field questions form the media during a news conference Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises.

Air Force: Missing pilot likely died instantly

Jeffrey Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 12:52am

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- An Air Force pilot likely died instantly when his F-16 fighter jet collided with another over the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said Saturday.

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