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    • Myrtle Beach mayor defends effort against rallies 10 min ago

      Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes is defending the city's effort to get ride of motorcycle rallies on the Grand Strand.

    • Myrtle Beach mayor defends effort against rallies 22 min ago

      Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes is defending the city's effort to get ride of motorcycle rallies on the Grand Strand.

    • US Rep. Wilson tours hydrogen research facility 2 hrs ago

      U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson is heading to a hydrogen research facility at the Savannah River site.
      The Republican's trip to the facility Wednesday is part of a tour that's bringing criticism from Wilson's Democratic opponent.

    • Regulators to discuss hearing schedule for reactors 2 hrs ago

      State utility regulators will discuss appointing someone to determine when hearings will be held on South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.'s request to build two nuclear reactors near Columbia.

    • North Carolina Education Lottery results 6 hrs ago

      Here are the winning numbers selected Tuesday in the North Carolina Education Lottery:
      Midday Pick 3
      2-1-5
      (two, one, five)
      Evening Pick 3
      2-3-3
      (two, three, three)
      Cash 5
      4-6-20-26-36
      (four, six, twenty, twenty-six, thirty-six)

    • South Carolina lottery numbers 11 hrs ago

      Here are the winning numbers selected Tuesday in the South Carolina state lottery:
      Pick 3 Midday
      1-8-6
      (one, eight, six)
      Pick 4 Midday
      5-8-1-1
      (five, eight, one, one)
      Pick 3 Evening
      5-9-4
      (five, nine, four)
      Pick 4 Evening
      7-1-1-1
      (seven, one, one, one)

    • Charges dropped in boisterous cheering cases 11 hrs ago

      Disorderly conduct charges have been dropped against seven people arrested after officials say they disrupted high school graduation ceremonies by cheering while names were being read.

    • Man pleads guilty in SC student bikini strangling 11 hrs ago

      A convicted sex offender spotted a college student outside her South Carolina apartment two years ago, then slipped through her patio door and raped and strangled her, leaving the bikini top still wrapped around her neck, according to a confession revealed during his guilty plea Tuesday.

    • SC Senate's film script: fix or cut incentives 13 hrs ago

      A Senate committee will decide if South Carolina needs to rethink tax breaks for movie makers that state leaders say don't return much to taxpayers.
      The Film Incentives Study Committee met Tuesday in Columbia and plans to revamp or scrap the program later this year.

    • Accused killer released on $125,000 bond 13 hrs ago

      A 62-year-old father accused of killing a teenager during a party at one of his homes in Lexington County is free on bond.
      Bond was set Tuesday at $125,0000 for Francis Marion Reeves III. He's charged with murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Deshaun Rashad Clark.

    • Tall ship damaged, not hit, by lightning 13 hrs ago

      The tall ship Spirit of South Carolina was disabled by lightning but apparently didn't suffer a direct hit while sailing in Rhode Island last month.
      That's the latest from the South Carolina Maritime Foundation, which operates the sailing ship based in Charleston.

    • Search continues for killer of SC deputy 14 hrs ago

      The search continues for whoever gunned down a Colleton County sheriff's deputy responding to a home burglar alarm almost two weeks ago.
      Deputy Dennis Compton was shot Aug. 6 at an unoccupied home near the rural community of Smoaks. He was 39.

    • VA taking over old Charleston Naval hospital 15 hrs ago

      The Navy hospital at the old Charleston Naval Base is changing hands and will eventually be run by the Veterans Administration.
      VA Secretary Dr. James B. Peake this week approved allowing the Johnson VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston to acquire the hospital.

    • Convicted economist asks financial aid to appeal 15 hrs ago

      Al Parish, the former college professor and economist convicted of swindling hundreds of investors out of $66 million, now wants the courts to help pay for the appeal of his 24-year prison sentence.

    • Man pleads guilty to raping, strangling SC student 16 hrs ago

      A convicted sex offender has admitted he strangled a 20-year-old South Carolina college student, leaving her body in her off-campus apartment with her bikini top still wrapped around her neck.

    • 16 hrs ago

      Sex offender accused of strangling SC student with her bikini pleads guilty to rape, murder.

    • Obesity rates up nationwide; Miss. again tops list 16 hrs ago

      Mississippi is America's fattest state for the third year in a row, and adult obesity rates across the nation are climbing steadily despite initiatives to combat the epidemic, a new report says.

    • SC Senate panel studies fees, fine revenue 18 hrs ago

      South Carolina senators want to get a better handle on how state agencies are spending the money they're allowed to generate through fees, fines and other charges.

    • Woman pleads guilty to stealing SC woman's ID 18 hrs ago

      A woman accused of stealing a missing South Carolina woman's identity to get into an Ivy League school has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

    • Lieberman going to Georgia with SC's Gr6aham 18 hrs ago

      Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is traveling to the Republic of Georgia this week as talk continues about his being on Republican John McCain's list of vice presidential prospects.

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