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CCU, LIDS team up for football ticket promotion

Coastal Carolina University has announced a new partnership with LIDS for a special Chanticleer Football promotion throughout the team’s 2010 campaign.

Georgetown man charged with attempted murder, arson

A Georgetown man is accused of setting fire to a house while his girlfriend and three other people were inside, authorities said. He later tried to kill himself.

Investigators release names of 3 killed in Brunswick shooting

North Carolina investigators say three people died in what may have been two slayings and a suicide after a domestic situation in the coastal community of Bolivia. Brunswick County sheriff deputies responded to an emergency call about a shooting at 9 p.m. Saturday and found three people with gunshot wounds. The victims were behind the Brunswick County Fishing Club on Sunset Harbor Road

Top candidates turn out for S.C. parade

Nikki Haley may have been on the cover of Newsweek, but she still has to ride in the Chapin Labor Day parade among the square dancers, cheerleaders and a mayor dressed as Captain America. Chapin is tiny – population 758, according to the U.S. Census Bureau – but its Labor Day parade has become a must-attend for politicians of all stripes.

Huge Dreamliner jet plant takes shape for 2011 in S.C.

Bright yellow construction cranes pierce the blue sky above Boeing Co.’s half-built jet manufacturing plant, beaming like spotlights to call attention to perhaps the largest economic development project in Lowcountry history. The building’s ultimate purpose, to house thousands of workers who will piece together the aviation giant’s new 787 passenger jets, can distract from the construction under way at Charleston International Airport. But building the structure’s skeletal frame, now mostly covered with white panelling, has proven to be a feat itself.

Ramadan means togetherness

It’s 4:29 a.m., and Munira von Briesen, 40, is busy in her kitchen, the only one lit up at this hour on her East Charlotte street. Wearing a white head scarf, she prepares breakfast for her five children, who cling to their last 10 minutes of sleep. In the next room, husband Inayat softly recites prayers in Arabic as he stands, bends at the waist, and kneels with his forehead and hands on a floor rug. Most mornings during the year, the kids – ages 8 to 16 – get to sleep later and make do with a bowl of cold cereal before heading off to public school.

S.C. district gets tough on athletes’ grades

In an effort to boost academic achievement, Guilford County schools are putting more than 100 athletes on the bench. The News & Record of Greensboro reported Sunday that at least 111 student athletes in the district are ineligible to play for their high school teams this semester because they couldn’t maintain a grade point average of 2.0, roughly a C, in their spring classes. The new policy came into effect as part of the school system’s effort to enhance the academic achievement of its students.