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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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Huntsman defends Romney's record at Bain

Charles Babington, Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 5:14pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Jon Huntsman said Wednesday it's time for Republicans to stop attacking presidential front-runner Mitt Romney's role in a corporate-takeover firm, but he said there are plenty of government-related issues on which to criticize Romney.

Huntsman, a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, is hoping his third-place New Hampshire finish will provide enough momentum to keep his underdog presidential campaign chugging in the deep South. He urged South Carolina Republicans Wednesday to see him as a pragmatic problem-solver who disdains partisan posturing.

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Puppy on top of train rescued

Susan M. Schafer The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 2:21pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Four firefighters in a South Carolina town plucked a frightened black lab puppy from the top of a double-decker freight train car and delivered her to a new, loving home.

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Nicholas Genovese's research into meat is funded by an animal-rights group. His far-reaching goal is to grow muscle meat separate from the animal -- in a lab and then factories. (Scott Canon/Kansas City Star/MCT)

Petrimeat? Scientist trying to create meat in a dish

Scott Canon Kansas City Star

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:24am

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Nicholas Genovese is a lab-coated collection of incongruities.

He's being bankrolled by an animal rights group to make meat.

The molecular biologist is working in a lab at a land-grant university that pulls in millions in grants for its research on livestock. Yet the money backing him pushes the desire to end the use of animals as food.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, speaks to members of the media, following a tour of TEC Infra-Red Grills, in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)

In SC, Huntsman says Obama needed in union fight

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 5:33pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In his first trip to early-voting South Carolina since launching his presidential campaign, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman did the governor's bidding and demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama end a lawsuit by a federal labor agency in a dispute over a Boeing plant being built in South Carolina.

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Doug Nye, longtime S.C. journalist and MCT columnist, dies

McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, June 6, 2011 - 12:05pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Doug Nye, 69, a former writer and editor for The State and The Columbia Record and a columnist for McClatchy-Tribune News Service, died Sunday morning after battling liver cancer.

Nye retired in 2004 after serving as a sports writer, editor and television editor at both The Columbia Record and The State.

Born in Augusta, Ga., Nye graduated from Furman University in 1964. He spent 35 years with The State and the Columbia Record, serving first as a sports writer, then editor. He was The State's television editor for 17 years.

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Teen charged with killing mom on Mother's Day

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:23am

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Police in South Carolina say a 17-year-old shot his mother to death on Mother's Day.

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Huntsman meets with SC Gov Haley

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 6, 2011 - 3:49pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Former ambassador and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is meeting with South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

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S.C. committee OKs bill requiring police to check immigration status

Noelle Phillips, The State

Last updated Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 11:21am

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina has moved one step closer to requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they arrest, stop for a traffic violation or investigate on suspicion of breaking the law.

The South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that now must be voted on by the full Senate. The earliest that could happen is Thursday, but people familiar with the state's Legislature said the process is not likely to move that quickly.

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South Carolina considers banning alcoholic energy drinks

Gina Smith, S.C.), The State (Columbia

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 10:44am

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Controversial canned drinks that combine alcohol and caffeine could be banned in South Carolina, upsetting some college students.

A South Carolina House subcommittee voted unanimously Thursday to outlaw the jumbo-size alcoholic energy drinks, sold at many of the state's convenience stores.

Law enforcement officials who testified at Thursday's meeting said the drinks are attractive particularly to underage and young drinkers because they taste fruity like regular energy drinks, provide a quick buzz and give a boost of energy.

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Effort to repeal Sunday shopping ban causing uproar

The State, Tim Flach

Last updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 10:16am

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Sunday morning shopping restrictions -- commonly known as blue laws -- appear headed for extinction in Lexington County, the last urban area in South Carolina clinging to the tradition.

But the rush to eliminate them to bring Amazon.com's distribution center to the county is creating concern among some religious leaders and conservative social groups, who view it as commerce trumping respect for the Christian Sabbath.

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Keeping holiday customers merry is essential

Press release

Last updated Monday, November 15, 2010 - 3:09pm

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Soon after Halloween, retailers put up Christmas trees and red trim next to cardboard cutouts of Frosty, Rudolph and Santa. These familiar symbols of the holiday season signify the most important time of the year for retailers: when the yearly bottom line can go from negative to positive in a matter of a few weeks.

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