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A.C. Flora players dogpile as they celebrate winning the Class 3A baseball state championship after an 11-3 victory against Airport on Monday.

Falcons fly highest, repeat as state champs

A.C. Flora started the season as state champions. They ended it the same way.

City Council woman Tamika Isaac Devine thanks everyone for coming out and supporting 'Bike To Work Day'. BPAC, the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and other cycling enthusiasts met at the State House in recognition of Bike To Work Day. Cyclists took a ride down Main St. in support of safe choices and opportunities for Columbia to commute to work.

This week's best staff photographs, May 20, 2013

A selection of photographs from The State staff.

Crime

A can of engine starting fluid shows signs that it was used in the production of methamphehetamine. Lexington County Multi-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) conducted a surprise operation on Monday, February 4 in which NET officers investigated multiple locations where they have received information that clandestine methamphetamine laboratories are being operated.

SC eyeing Oregon for solution to meth lab ‘explosion’

Making methamphetamine is as easy as shopping at a store where the highly addictive drug’s ingredients – from cold medicine to batteries and soda bottles to “cook” the drug in – are available.

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SC Politics

Joe Wilson hugs his son Alan after his primary win for S.C. state senator in 1984.

Joe and Alan Wilson: Father and son

An online exclusive from Lake Murray and Northeast magazines. A conversation with Joe and Alan Wilson

Sports

Falcons fly highest, repeat as state champs

A.C. Flora started the season as state champions. They ended it the same way.

Business

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner of All Nippon Airways prepares to land after a test flight at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) conducted its first test flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on Sunday since planes were grounded in mid-January after incidents with smoldering batteries occurred aboard two different planes, leading to hundreds of canceled flights and revenue losses. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

United restarts 787 flights after battery fix

United Airlines is again flying the 787, four months after smoldering batteries forced the plane to be grounded worldwide.

Midlands People & Achievements
Calls poured in to consumer affairs agency over SC tax record hacking
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Living

"Le grand C" Compagnie XY Portés acrobatiques

Spoleto Festival USA’s talking points

Here are the performances, including “Le Grand C” by Compagnie XY, that Spoleto patrons will be talking about

Opinion

Scoppe: Don’t delay finishing off Budget and Control Board

Since the House and Senate both have passed legislation to abolish the hermaphroditic Budget and Control Board, you’d think they could mark that off their to-do list. You’d be wrong.

It was the third time she had ever flown, and the plane was the “size of the Titanic.” Days before she had packed bottles of Garnier Fructis shampoo, a quilt and her special pillow into a huge metal case and shipped it to herself &#...