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    Mortgage lenders play incentive game

    Mortgage lenders are getting in on the incentive game home builders started playing a year ago as the recession eats away at the already ailing housing market.

E-mails detail Sanford's Argentina trip plans

When South Carolina's Commerce Department planned a trade mission to South America last year, Gov. Mark Sanford rejected a historic tour, requested meetings with real estate agents, and tried to make sure he would have at least an evening free in Buenos Aires.

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Barrett pulls in more than $500,000

U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett raised more than $500,000 in the past three months for his 2010 Republican gubernatorial run, according to his campaign.

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Melanie Huggins began her library career 15 years ago in the children’s room of the Richland County Public Library. After professional stops in Charlotte and then St. Paul, Minn., Huggins returned to Columbia last week as the library’s new executive director.

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Pilot dies in crash practicing for Mo. air show

A pilot has died after her propeller plane crashed into a bean field in far northwest Missouri while she practiced acrobatics for an air show.

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