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Friday, May 16, 2008
Sometime before 7 p.m. on June 18, 2007, someone discarded "smoking materials" outside the Sofa Super Store's loading dock, the city's fire experts found. But 11 months after the deadly fire, investigators still haven't said whether they have answers to basic questions about the fire's origin: Did a cigarette start the fire, or some other "smoking material?" And who caused that first spark?
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Friday, May 16, 2008
If building code regulations had been followed at the Sofa Super Store building, nine firefighters would not have died there last summer, a city-funded analysis of the fire has concluded. "The fire could have been prevented," the report says. "If the property had been constructed and maintained in accordance with state and local codes, the fire would have been quickly controlled. No lives would have been lost, and the fire would have been of little consequence."
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Friday, May 16, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — Berkeley County school officials gathered Thursday to kick off construction of an elementary school and check the progress of a new high school. Both schools are in Cane Bay Plantation, a new development on U.S. Highway 176. Cane Bay Elementary School is schedule...
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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The mammoth container ship disappeared under the Ravenel Bridge. The thrill-boat ride shot away. The sun sank into clouds and the mists came up. And out of the mist came the tall sails. It looked like something from another time. "Sweet," said Logan Johnsen, first mate of the Amistad, as he got his first glimpse of the Spirit of South Carolina heeling by. "The trim, the sails, the way she's cutting through the wake. She's just a nice sight."
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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The Charleston Fire Department's commander at the front of the Sofa Super Store, the one charged at the time with directing firefighters inside the store's huge showroom, left to help free a store worker who was trapped near the flames and choking on the thick, black smoke.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
MOUNT PLEASANT — Town Council is exploring whether it can take over the widening of Johnnie Dodds Boulevard from Charleston County.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Republican 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson aired her first TV ad Thursday after Blair Jennings, her rival in the June 10 GOP primary, hit the airwaves last week. Wilson's 30-second spot highlights her 15 years as a federal and state prosecutor, and her appointment by Gov. Mark Sanford as solicitor for Charleston and Berkeley counties.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Relatives of the fallen nine firefighters shared with Post and Courier reporters their impressions of the report:
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley and retiring Fire Chief Rusty Thomas shared the report's findings with firefighters during a two-hour meeting Thursday at the Gaillard Auditorium. Afterward, many firemen walked away with solemn faces. Here's what a few had to say:
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Friday, May 16, 2008
It could cost North Charleston nearly $2 million to demolish a partially collapsed pier on the old Navy base.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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A Charleston Fire Department overconfident in its ability to aggressively extinguish fires and totally lacking in modern tactics and equipment. A sprawling furniture store in violation of fire and building codes. The combination proved a deadly mix at the Sofa Super Store fire, according to a report from a city-appointed panel of firefighting experts.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Fire burned through a house near Huger Street on the upper Charleston peninsula early Thursday. No one was home when flames appeared at 4 Dingle St. shortly before 5 a.m. Although the three-bedroom dwelling was left a charred ruin, the flames did not spread to neighbors' houses, separated by only the width of a narrow driveway in one direction and even less in the other.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists — early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing even as Obama, the Democratic front-runner, tries to sew up his party's nomination.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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MONCKS CORNER — All three candidates running for the District 3 Berkeley County Council seat say the county needs to better manage growth and its finances. David Kennedy, Robert Call and Billy Elrod are running in the June 10 Republican primary.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
South Carolina is a step closer to eliminating the standardized Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test given to public school students and revamping its entire education accountability system.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Marvin Dulaney is leaving the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston, where he's held leadership positions for the past 14 years. Dulaney, who's currently Avery's executive director, will step down from the center's top post on June 30 and leave in mid-August. Georgette Mayo, the center's reference archivist, will take over as executive director on July 1.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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SUMMERVILLE — A proposal to create a CARTA Express bus route between Summerville and Charleston seems to be refueled. Town Council on Wednesday unanimously agreed to refer the express bus idea to the Planning Committee, and a committee member said Thursday that he thinks council is now fully behind the concept.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — A man was shot in the hand Wednesday when he opened the door to a stranger's knock at his home in the Bushy Park Terrace neighborhood, according to a police report released Thursday.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
SANDRIDGE — A teenager was killed Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle accident on 35 Mile Road.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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A man has been charged with severely abusing two young children, according to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office. Eddie Francisco Torres, 20, was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and inflicting bodily injury to a child, a release says. He remained at the Dorchester County jail Thursday on $1 million bail.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Local churches will band together Saturday to distribute more than 130 tons of food to needy families across South Carolina. The effort, coordinated by Angel Food Ministries, is in response to rapidly rising food costs.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China — Tang Xiaomin had just left her fourth-floor apartment to buy groceries when the building started crumbling around her. An upstairs neighbor was thrown against the kitchen table and grabbed her purse before rushing out. Another resident, who was expecting a baby, was resting and became trapped.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
The nearly 300-page report on the Sofa Super Store fire released Thursday is a culmination of hundreds of hours of work and the examination of hundreds of documents that began in August, two months after the fatal June 18 blaze that killed nine Charleston firefighters. The six-member, city...
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
University of South Carolina junior Vera Swain lost her semifinal match in the show's 2008 College Championship, which was televised Wednesday night.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
MONCKS CORNER — A judge has ruled that the public does not have the right to see the Berkeley County School Board members' individual performance evaluations of Superintendent Chester Floyd.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
The Air Force has selected the 437th Airlift Wing at Charleston Air Force Base as the winner of the 2008 Verne Orr Award.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Jan. 28, 1958: Russell B. Thomas Jr. is born into a family of longtime firefighters. June 1976: Thomas graduates from Fort Johnson High on James Island and immediately joins the Charleston Fire Department at age 18, turning down a baseball scholarship. Jan. 13, 1989: Thomas becomes...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
GOOSE CREEK — A 21-year-old man was shot Wednesday afternoon in the Bushy Park Terrace neighborhood, but his injuries are not life-threatening, police said.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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LINCOLNVILLE — Late one summer night, frantic calls went out across police radios. Constable Robert Bailey was missing, kidnapped after a traffic stop near Greenwood Street. That was a year ago, and on Wednesday about 60 of Bailey's friends and acquaintances gathered at the town's public safety building that is now named in his honor.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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The call went out Wednesday morning, every firefighter in Charleston told to gather around their radios so they could hear a message from the chief. Most guys couldn't remember ever getting news like that. And for the rest of the day, every fire station was quiet, in shock.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Cricket Wireless is celebrating its one-year anniversary in Charleston by offering free bus rides Friday.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
COLUMBIA — In a showdown vote on the chamber floor Wednesday, state senators refused to send Gov. Mark Sanford an immigration-reform plan after arguments were made that the bill is "a paper tiger" and "riddled with errors."
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas says last year's Sofa Super Store fire changed him forever, and stepping aside would be the best way to help his fire department heal. The announcement Wednesday that the embattled chief will retire June 27 came on the eve of a highly anticipated report that is expected to be critical of the department's handling of the June 18 blaze that killed nine of Thomas' firefighters.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Alice Meyers' only son was killed on Mother's Day, a few hours after he came home with a dozen red roses for her. Charleston police found Jesse P. Watson Meyers' body Sunday in a home on Lee Street downtown. His father, Herbert Meyers, said Jesse didn't stand a chance.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Only two people showed up at CARTA's hearing Wednesday about proposed bus fare increases.
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