Meg Kinnard

(RAINIER EHRHARDT/The Associated Press) Dumped tires are seen piled in a wooded area near Elloree, S.C. on Nov. 17, 2011. The tires started piling up on some county land in South Carolina, little by little, growing to a mound of about a million tires covering several acres of land. Officials say a $400 littering fine is hardly enough to deal with the problem.

Giant mound of tires in SC visible from space

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 5:09pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands of tires isn’t easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tires got there, or when.

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Meg Kinnard/The Associated Press Mourners stop Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, to lay flowers, balloons and stuffed animals outside the home where 10-year-old Zahra Baker had lived with her father and step-mother in Hickory, N.C. Officials said Friday they found the disabled girl's remains near where the family lived until mid-September. They did not say how she was killed.

Girl's birthday comes amid grim details of death

Last updated Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 1:47pm

HICKORY, N.C. — Zahra Baker, the little girl from Australia with the resilience to smile through painful treatment for bone cancer, would have been 11 years old Tuesday.

Instead, the day will be marked with candlelight vigils in North Carolina as court documents revealed she was dismembered and police needed her stepmother’s help to find the remains because they were in such remote locations.

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