State troopers are investigating two separate fatal crashes that happened nearly four hours apart Thursday morning in Georgetown and Horry counties, according to authorities. A 19-year-old Georgetown man died in a single-vehicle crash early Thursday, and a 57-year-old Green Sea man died in a two-vehicle collision. The deaths bring the number of deadly crashes in Georgetown County to seven so far this year, and to 39 in Horry County, according to coroners’ offices in those counties
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A woman died and a man was injured after a car slammed head-on into a tractor-trailer on U.S. 17 near S.C. 41 early Wednesday, officials said. Mary Dew, 42, of Myrtle Beach died as a result of blunt trauma injuries, Charleston County Deputy Coroner Brittney Martin said.
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U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said he could push to insert a $400,000 earmark to study deepening Charleston Harbor into a federal appropriations bill. He’s just not sure he will
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T he ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was marked this year with remembrances about that horrific day and debates about the placement of an Islamic cultural center that was likened to a “Ground Zero Mega Mosque.” I’m going to remember that day differently this weekend when my son Kyle has his ninth birthday.
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Sprinklers in the loading dock of a Charleston furniture store would have contained a fire that killed nine firefighters more than three years ago, a new federal study concluded Thursday. The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology also found the large open display space and large quantities of flammable furniture increased the spread of the flames at the Sofa Super Store in July 2007.
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Opponents of an Arizona-style immigration bill for the Palmetto State said it would be too expensive, would encourage racial profiling and would be divisive to the state’s 4 million residents. Those points were made Wednesday night before an S.C. Senate subcommittee that is holding statewide hearings about South Carolina’s immigration laws.
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The issue was first raised at a gubernatorial candidate forum in Myrtle Beach last week and again at Tuesday’s debate in Florence: Was Rep. Nikki Haley’s vote to stop a bill on highway funding a vote against proposed Interstate 73? That is the characterization that Democrats, including her gubernatorial opponent Vincent Sheheen, have put forward, but GOP candidate Haley says it’s not the case.
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