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S.C. Politics Today | Bush sends condolences to fire families

President George W. Bush, who is visiting Columbia today, said he and First Lady Laura Bush are concerned about the families who lost loved ones in the fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., this week.

  • 6 fire victims had drunk heavily

    Six of the seven South Carolina college students killed in last month’s North Carolina beach house fire had blood-alcohol levels as much as three times the legal limit for an adult operating a vehicle, according to toxicology reports released Friday.- 11:34 PM

  • Smoke, fumes killed students

    Smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning killed the seven college students who died Sunday in a fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., before the flames reached them, the state’s chief medical examiner said Wednesday.- 10:52 AM

  • Beach fire | ‘Half of me is gone’

    CLEMSON — Surrounded by eight friends, Meredith Yelton stood in front of hundreds of college students and read a letter to her twin sister, Emily.- 10:52 AM

  • Report: 6 students killed in fire had been drinking, but alcohol did not contribute to deaths

    Six of the seven college students who died in last month’s North Carolina beach house fire had been drinking, but their alcohol consumption was not why they did not get out alive, a South Carolina newspaper reported today.

    - 5:18 PM

  • Survivor thought friends were already outside

    Fallon Sposato awoke to a blaring alarm and smoke seeping into the bedroom of the beach house where she and 12 friends had been partying just hours earlier.- 10:15 AM

  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIMELINE

    The Emergency Services call center in Brunswick County, N.C., received 20 calls within a couple of minutes about the beach house fire that killed six USC students and one Clemson student Sunday.- 10:52 AM

  • N.C. officials confirm IDs in fatal beach house fire


    The identities of seven students killed in a beach house fire were confirmed tonight by the North Carolina state medical examiner’s office.- 10:14 AM

  • Fond memories survive flames

    Over the past week, details have emerged about how 13 college students from South Carolina came together last weekend in a quiet beach town just across the North Carolina border.- 10:39 AM

  • 911 tapes | Listen to callers report fire

    Here are four 911 calls placed the night of the deadly Ocean Isle Beach fire to Brunswick County (N.C.) 911:- 10:54 AM

  • Silence in remembrance

    Dale McNair wasn’t sure how she got herself to Columbia on Tuesday, but by noon she was standing silently before USC’s makeshift memorial to the seven victims of a weekend fire.- 10:15 AM

  • Close friends were popular, well-liked

    Shannon McDaniel was intimidated and scared when she transferred in her junior year to a new school, J.L. Mann Academy in Greenville County.- 10:52 AM

  • Tears and remembrance

    As the sun set over the University of South Carolina campus Monday, candles held by students illuminated a somber scene. Six black wreaths adorned with garnet bows stood in a semi-circle, flanking a single, purple wreath with a white ribbon and an orange rose.- 11:49 AM

  • Transcript | Bertram Rantin on CNN's Larry King Live

    Note: As described by CNN.com, this is excerpted from a 'rush transcript' that might not be in its final form: An excerpt of Larry King's Oct. 29 "Larry King Live" on CNN

    - 1:08 PM

  • Mourners recall young man who touched lives

    GREENVILLE — Travis Cale’s plain oak casket rested along the shore of Round Pond, a tranquil place where he, his family and his closest friends lounged, laughed and loved.- 12:08 AM

  • Walden funeral: ‘Such a loss to the community’

    CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — More than 600 people crowded a suburban Cleveland church Saturday to remember one of seven college students killed in a North Carolina beach house fire last weekend, a church minister said.- 12:08 AM

  • Smoking a possible cause

    The blaze that consumed the lives of seven college students could have been caused by careless smoking, state and federal investigators said Friday.- 10:38 PM

  • All homes need sprinklers, some fire safety experts say

    Sprinklers that could protect beach vacationers from deadly fires aren’t required in thousands of seaside houses rented to tourists each year in South Carolina.- 10:15 AM

  • From Sorensen's remarks

    USC president Andrew Sorensen quoted a famous verse — “no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent” — from 16th-century Anglican priest and poet John Donne:- 12:53 PM