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Graphs: SC tornado climatology
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Community Calendar for the Midlands, May 21
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Man accused of exposing himself on Hilton Head beach
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Deadly Moore, Okla., tornado system from space
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Truck filled with explosive chemical catches fire in Newberry County
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Richland deputies hunt suspects in kidnap and laptop theft
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Unattended cooking causes $50,000 mobile home fire in Lower Richland
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Columbia’s suburban poor on the rise, nearly doubling in a decade
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Don’t come yet, Okla. says, but SC personnel ready to help
South Carolina disaster relief teams remained on alert Tuesday to assist victims of the Oklahoma tornado, but for now the word from their Oklahoma counterparts was this: Send financial donations, but hold off on food, clothing and volunteers.
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Investigator: Brett Parker called police 11 minutes after Capnerhurst entered home
When Irmo bookie Brett Parker first met with investigators, he told them Bryan Capnerhurst started shooting less than a minute after entering the Parker's Ascot Estates home.
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LOCAL NEWS
Smarter signals promise fewer Lexington County road jams
New signals at 46 intersections that adapt to the flow of traffic could reduce congestion significantly in steadily growing Lexington, a study Monday says.
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POLITICS
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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LOCAL NEWS
Nikki Haley's husband back home for leave from deployment
S.C. First Gentleman Michael Haley is back home for up to two weeks of leave from a year-long S.C. National Guard deployment in Afghanistan, the governor’s office said Monday.
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CRIME
Brett Parker says Capnerhurst was assailant, but witnesses testify he avoided firearms
One by one, family and friends of a man slain in an Irmo bookie’s home testified Monday that he never owned a gun and did not like to be around them.
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LOCAL NEWS
Richland County council may decide Tuesday whether to pay election lawyer bills
A divided Richland County Council may debate Tuesday evening – behind closed doors – whether to pay the legal bills for investigating and defending in court a botched Nov. 6 election.
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CINDI SCOPPE
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.
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CRIME
16-year-old arrested in robbery of Lexington County restaurant
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives charged a 16-year-old Gilbert boy with breaking into a restaurant on Main Street in Gilbert on May 6.
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LOCAL NEWS
Citizen helps Richland deputies nab car break-in suspects
A tip from an alert citizen helped Richland County deputies arrest four suspects in a car break-in in the Lake Carolina community, Sheriff Leon Lott said Monday in a press release.







