State forgoes $100M

Eligibility changes would make funds available to nearly 17,000 residents

COLUMBIA -- South Carolina is missing out on nearly $100 million more in federal stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits, and it will be months before out-of-work residents see the money, if they ever do. Read More

House passes health reform

Measure squeaks by; Senate vote is up next

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, historic health-care-overhaul legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so. Read More

Kandrac takes on district

School board member says she works for community, not for McGinley administration

Elizabeth Kandrac ran for a seat on the Charleston County School Board because she saw a need for change and because she wanted to be a voice for the community. But her efforts to be a catalyst for improvement have alienated some of her board colleagues and the district's top leadership. Read More

Finally sober, April looks to months ahead

Mom seeks to get life, and family, back together

April Boshard grinned as she scurried through the parking lot of Seacoast Church, hefting a box of second-hand clothes for the needy. Dressed in jeans and a sweater jacket, her red hair neatly pulled back from her face, Boshard looked like a suburban housewife putting in a few hours of community service at the church. Read More

This one's for you, Harry

WASHINGTON -- The seat next to me was empty. As the first Lowcountry Honor Flight carried about a hundred World War II vets to the nation's capital to visit their long-overdue memorial, one of them couldn't make it at the last minute. Read More

Car wash manager still driven to keep local customers happy

It's car wash weather on this fine Saturday morning -- cloudless skies, about 70 degrees -- and Perry Capers is holding court at the In & Out, as he has for 50 years. "Clean that up a little better, Ricky," Capers says, as he muses on the changes he's see in the car wash business and the world during the past half-century. Read More

Deaths and Funerals

Port's plans on table

Residents get peek at revitalization strategies

Residents of seven neighborhoods affected by the new port terminal being built at the former Navy Yard in North Charleston got a peek Saturday at the various economic and building strategies that could revitalize and protect the area over the next 30 years. Read More

State to go after education reform grant

State Department of Education leaders said they will apply for a portion of $4 billion in federal stimulus money for school reform available to states, and they think they have a shot at getting it. Read More

2 killed in crash of fleeing vehicle

MCCLELLANVILLE -- A high-speed chase that began with gunfire outside a club here early Saturday ended when the driver of a fleeing vehicle lost control on a country road and crashed into a tree. Read More

Lowcountry Veterans Day calendar

Following are 2009 Veterans Day events and remembrances: Read More

Deaths Summary

Bargain Hunters

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Videos give up-close look at detainee wing

Recently released surveillance shows al-Marri, others in 'Special Housing Unit'

Newly declassified surveillance videos and logs give the most vivid look yet at how terrorism detainees were treated inside a super-secret wing of the Charleston Naval Consolidated Brig, the same facility reportedly under consideration to house some of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees. Read More

Painting in the park

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