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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
Charleston's next fire chief, expected to be announced later this month, is likely to hail from the Southeast and might already lead a fire department in a major American city.
Those are among the characteristics emerging as city officials and an executive recruiting firm whittle down a list of 140 applicants seeking to succeed former Fire Chief Rusty Thomas. He retired in June following a scathing analysis of his department's handling of the Sofa Super Store blaze that killed nine area firefighters last year.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
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For more than two decades, Ralph Earhart of West Ashley has been a fixture in local scouting.
In May, Earhart retired as Cub Master for Pack 79, which meets at Westminster Presbyterian Church off Sam Rittenberg Boulevard. While he has stepped down from his formal commitments with the pack, he will continue to recruit leaders to work with the organization.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
Jane Ries went to the College of Charleston late last month planning to take advantage of a state program that waives tuition for people older than 60 and enroll in a creative writing class.
When she got there, school officials told her that the Legislature had changed the program this year to exclude people who are working full time, she said.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
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KEY WEST, Fla. — 'Extremely dangerous' Hurricane Ike grew to fierce Category 4 strength Saturday as it roared on an uncertain path that forced millions from the Caribbean to Florida, and Louisiana to Mexico, to nervously wonder where it eventually would strike.
Preparations stretched more than 1,000 miles as the massive, 135-mph storm took a southwesterly shift that could send it over Cuba and the Florida Keys by Monday before heading into the warm open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And once again, a possible target was New Orleans and the already storm-weary U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
A young West Ashley woman said she was abducted Thursday night, blindfolded and taken to an abandoned house on James Island, where one of three men put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her if she moved.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
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A new oral history project at The Citadel aims to record the stories of its alumni who fought in World War II.
Author and southern political expert Jack Bass will lead the effort, which has a personal element for him.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
COLUMBIA — Former South Carolina standout Jamel Bradley has changed his basketball shorts and high-tops for police blues.
But he's not chasing bad guys, he's walking the halls of local schools as a resource officer, hoping to keep children from becoming troublemakers.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Look out the window when driving to and from work this week. Do you see the homeless? They are among us. We pass them, and the places they live, each day.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
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Even though Hanna huffed and puffed, the tropical storm didn't blow any houses down.
But authorities say they did not cry wolf.
The storm's wind and rain skittered over the Southeast causing some isolated flooding and power outages before Hanna accelerated toward New England.
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
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Don't let the gritty job and grimy work shirt fool you. Gene Sanders is no grease monkey.
Over the past 18 years, he's built a family-owned, one-truck wrecker service into one of the Lowcountry's most recognizable heavy-duty towing companies.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
COLUMBIA – Governor Mark Sanford today issued a statement after the passage of Tropical Storm Hanna along the South Carolina coast.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
City officials were reporting minimal damage from Tropical Storm Hanna – a few awnings down, a handful of trees fallen.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
MOUNT PLEASANT — It was so wet in the town that frogs could be seen jumping on roads. On Saturday morning, the only apparent damage from Tropical Storm Hanna was an upside down speed limit sign on the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge southbound.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
GEORGETOWN — Either high winds or lightning from Tropical Storm Hanna was responsible for knocking down a power pole here that caused an electrical fire at the McNair Law Firm offices.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Charleston County and the fringes of neighboring counties got at least 3 inches of rain courtesy of Tropical Storm Hanna late Friday and early Saturday morning, the National Weather Service said.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
MONCKS CORNER — By 2 a.m. Saturday, Tropical Storm Hanna had passed Berkeley County without causing much more than fallen tree limbs, brief power outages for a handful of homes and pockets of flooding along roadways.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Eugene Platt's legal fight to get on the Nov. 4 ballot as a District 115 state House candidate grew more complex this week as the Charleston County Democratic Party filed suit to keep him off the ballot. Platt lost the Democratic primary in June to James Island lawyer Anne Peterson Hutto, but he hopes to get on the ballot as a candidate for the Green Party, which nominated him in May.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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COLUMBIA — Nearly a year after her 18-year-old daughter died in a beach house fire, Kaaren Mann hopes to honor her by fighting for campus fire safety.
Her daughter, Lauren Mahon, was among seven South Carolina college students who died last October during a weekend trip to Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. The fire claimed one local victim. Cassidy Fae Pendley, an 18-year-old North Charleston resident, was a freshman chemical engineering student at the University of South Carolina. She was a 2007 graduate of Fort Dorchester High School.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
It looks like Michelle Obama isn't coming to Charleston this fall after all, at least not to give the keynote address at the Charleston NAACP banquet.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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SUMMERVILLE — Horace Knapp stood on the wooden front porch of his mobile home Thursday night with the barrel of a rifle pointed at two Berkeley County deputies, authorities said.
His uncle, Charles Judy, watched from next door.
He said Knapp had been drinking beer and squabbling with his live-in girlfriend for much of the day, but she'd had enough. Now she was there with the deputies, who were escorting her to retrieve her belongings and leave.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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Shaped by the wind, ocean currents and storms, coastal barrier islands are a slow-motion lesson in how small changes make big ones over time. You can see this lesson at work when you leave a towel on a windy beach, only to find it covered with sand grains minutes later. These grains add up. Every year, enough sand to fill Williams Bryce Stadium moves past any given spot off a barrier island beach, said Miles O. Hayes, a noted seashore geologist who studied the area.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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MOUNT PLEASANT — Fish, shrimp, turtles, crabs and other sea life will have a home aboard the Yorktown at a new $300,000 Marine Education Center planned in the starboard bow of the ship.
The 1,700-square-foot center will include aquariums and microscropes in a laboratory, and a classroom. It will provide a place for hands-on experiments, said Ned Forney, director of education at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
On a late September evening, a North Charleston woman arrived at her house to find a scene every homeowner dreads. The front door stood open, jagged glass poked from a broken window, drawers and cabinets hung open, violated.
More than $1,800 worth of cameras, electronics, jewelry and other belonging were gone. No one had seen the burglar. All he left behind was a flashlight and some blood, police said.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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FOLLY BEACH — Out here, putting together a hurricane kit means bringing an extra chunk of surfboard wax.
Dozens of surfers and a couple kayakers braved the sloppy approach of Tropical Storm Hanna on Friday by descending on the local surf haven known as "the Washout."
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
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A few breaths short of a hurricane, Hanna cartwheeled into the Carolinas on Friday night, flooding streets with fierce rain squalls and lashing the area with gusty winds before heading toward the North Carolina border at a 20-mph clip. A few days behind, Hurricane Ike was expected to grow ...
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Elder law attorney Alyson Fudge will present the fifth in a series of lectures and workshops at Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church. The hour-long "Ask the Attorney" starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday at, 1605 Harbor View Road.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
Interstate 26 work crews will continue to concentrate their efforts along the Remount Road interchange next week.
As part of the three-year, $66 million widening of the freeway from six to eight lanes between the Mark Clark Expressway and Ashley Phosphate Road, construction workers will continue to build the new Remount Road overpass and rebuild the intersection with new on- and off-ramps, said James Law with the state Department of Transportation.
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Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008
South Carolina risks losing its moral mandate to govern if it does not invest the money necessary to keep people safe from criminals who prey on the public time and again, one of the state's top legislators says.
Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, said The Post and Courier's recent five-part series "Law and Disorder" offered compelling evidence that the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services is seriously understaffed and needs more resources to effectively perform its mission.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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COLUMBIA — The big switch to digital TV has prison officials scrambling to keep one of the most important peacekeeping tools in prisons across the nation — broadcast television. When the nation's broadcasters make the switch from analog to digital signals next Feb. 17, televisions that aren't hooked up to cable, satellite or a converter box will be reduced to static.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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COLUMBIA — For six years, Gov. Mark Sanford has criticized the General Assembly's spending practices. And for those same six years, the Legislature has listened politely, waited for him to stop talking, and then did whatever it wanted to do. Whether this time is different is a...
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
The family of a girl who died after jumping from a dock on Lake Hartwell in May 2007 is accusing authorities of not doing enough to help the 11-year-old.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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An hour before his close political ally, friend and fellow senator John McCain accepted the Republicans' nomination for president Thursday night, Lindsey Graham told the delegates how right McCain was on Iraq. Right to question President Bush's previous handling of the war there.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Schools get grants for healthy snacks Four Lowcountry elementary schools will receive federal money to put fresh fruit and vegetable snacks in hallways and classrooms.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Dozens of Lowcountry volunteers were working Thursday night to open four emergency shelters in North Charleston. Though no one showed up to use the facilities by about 9 p.m., the volunteers were busy setting up bedding and opening boxes of supplies after the Charleston County Emergency Operations Center called for a voluntary evacuation of low-lying areas and wind- and flood-prone homes.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — With soft rebukes of his opponent and his own party — and harsh words for the culture of Washington — Sen. John McCain claimed the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night and promised that "change is coming" after eight years of the Bush administration. The address was much like the candidate: forceful and blunt-spoken, with little of Democratic rival Barack Obama's lyricism.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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John Bourne's legacy as North Charleston mayor is a five-story City Hall on LaCross Road. Mayor Keith Summey plans to leave behind a new City Hall as well. "My goal is to leave the city in a position for the next 20 or 30 years so future mayors will not be caught needing so much space," North Charleston's third mayor in 36 years said Thursday as he strolled through the vast open space of the new building on a tour with The Post and Courier.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
Authorities say a student at Indian Land High School was shot with a Taser after he hit a police officer during an argument with his mother and the principal.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
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SUMMERVILLE — A Summerville man who in May was accused of injuring two children is in jail again, this time charged with sexually assaulting the young boy and girl.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
As of this morning, most insurance companies and agents have stopped binding coverage for homeowners' insurance along the South Carolina coastal areas impacted by the hurricane watch. Consumers can still purchase wind and hail insurance as well as flood insurance, but wind and hail insurance has a fifteen-day waiting period. Flood insurance carries a thirty-day waiting period.
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Friday, Sept. 5, 2008
A high-achieving West Ashley elementary school could become Charleston County's third neighborhood school to convert to a charter. Drayton Hall Elementary is in the process of determining whether the community would support the change.
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