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Red Cross holds training for disaster relief volunteers

The gathering of volunteers listened intently as the relief training got under way, many of them imagining the day when they might get the call.

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  • Rantin: USC professor at top of his class

    William R. (“Randy”) Folks Jr. has been named the Academy of International Business Fellows’ 2008 International Educator of the Year.- 11:00 PM

  • Locals to appear on telethon

    Two Chapin siblings and a Columbia man will share their stories about life with muscular dystrophy before a national television audience today.- 6:54 AM

  • Library honors volunteers

    Here are some accomplishments worth “checking out.” The Richland County Public Library recently honored several of its outstanding young volunteers for their service and contributions to the library. The group members were recognized during a ceremony at the main branch.- 6:53 AM

  • Rantin: ‘He sets a superb example’


    John E. “J.J.” Jones’ path to a career in law enforcement was anything but scripted. It was a college roommate who convinced him to tag along for a reserve officer recruitment meeting for the University of South Carolina Police Department.- 7:44 AM

  • Local legal minds earn favorable verdict

    All rise, ladies and gentlemen, for some outstanding verdicts on the state’s chief judge and two others in the Midlands’ legal community.- 7:11 AM

  • Rantin: Summer reading books almost due

    As her son headed off to the beach for his final hurrah of the summer earlier this week, Georgia Doran held out one final request.- 11:38 PM

  • Rantin: Handful of hair, handful of hope


    Connie Austin-Welch could have sat this one out. But the way she sees it, cancer’s not taking a break and neither can she.- 11:35 PM

  • Housing authority honors teens

    Eighteen of Columbia’s most promising youths have been recognized for their commitment to gaining work experience. The Columbia Housing Authority recognized the group’s members during its 2008 Summer Youth Employment Program recognition breakfast Friday.- 10:44 AM

  • Children’s Hospital Program: Songs in the key of recovery


    The music of healing filled the atrium of Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital on Tuesday morning. With their wheelchairs in tow and their cares left behind, many of the hospital’s young patients embraced the joy of song as part of a new hospital outreach. Some might even say they were rockin’.- 10:57 AM

  • Ruby’s 1st road trip


    Tara and Mark Cecchini’s hospital bags were waiting by the door, her parents were on standby and the father-to-be already had commissioned a T-shirt stating, “I didn’t faint.”- 8:58 AM

Bertram Rantin

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Blog: Watching Your Money

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(803) 771-8306


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