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SC court: Some sex offenders can challenge lifetime monitoring
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SC House panel endorses bill to allow guns in restaurants, bars
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Memorial Day holiday closings
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Community Calendar for the Midlands, May 23
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SC Senate kills last effort to expand Medicaid
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1st sea-turtle nests of season appear on Hilton Head, Fripp islands
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SC roads bill running short on time
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Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities in central Florida early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.
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Surfside Beach man charged with tattooing 15-year-old girl
A Surfside Beach man was charged with illegally tattooing a 15-year-old after the teen's mother saw an image on the girl's wrist, according to a police report.
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SC congressman grills IRS officials
An Internal Revenue Service official tried to evoke her Fifth Amendment rights in a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, but she could now be forced to face committee members after U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-Spartanburg, questioned her...
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CRIME
Federal government seeks $237M from Sumter hospital
Tuomey Healthcare System will have to pay more than $237 million in fines and penalties if the judge overseeing its recent federal trial upholds the government’s motion filed Wednesday against the local hospital.
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CRIME
Rock Hill parents arrested; accused of not caring for preemies
York police have arrested two parents accused of withholding medical care from their premature sons, who doctors eventually diagnosed as “failure to thrive.”
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CRIME
Columbia police investigating death of child
Authorities are investigating what Columbia Police spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons described as a ‘suspicious child death’ Wednesday night. The death occurred on Lester Drive, a short road that parallels SC 277 just north of Farrow Road.
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WORLD
Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants...
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CRIME
Family’s accountant insists Irmo bookie knew of wife’s life insurance policy
Prosecution rests after 10 days of testimony which included information about a two-year affair between family accountant Ben Staples and Tammy Parker; defense begins its presentation Thursday.
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SC MILITARY NEWS
Travelling Vietnam Wall Memorial arrives in Sumter
Sumter resident Jimmy Shuping remembers a time when military veterans weren’t as celebrated as they are today.
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CRIME
Bounty hunters charged with kidnapping in Orangeburg County arrest
A couple of out-of-state bounty hunters found themselves in cuffs Tuesday morning after trying arrest a man wanted in Maryland, police say.
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LOCAL NEWS
Moped driver killed in Kershaw crash might have been on cell phone
A woman who died driving a mo-ped in Kershaw County might have been on her cell phone when she crashed into an oncoming pickup truck shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Kershaw County coroner Johnny Fellers said Wednesday.
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EDUCATION
More teachers to be hired by Lexington 1
An improved revenue forecast means school officials plan to add 50 teachers by fall, five more than initially proposed.
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ELECTIONS IN COLUMBIA AND THE MIDLANDS
Candidate forum set for seat on Richland 1 board
The five candidates seeking a seat on the Richland 1 school board will meet Thursday night at 6 p.m. at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters.








