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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

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

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

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

Lowcountry Veterans Day calendar

Following are 2009 Veterans Day events and remembrances: 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

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

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

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

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

Painting in the park

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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

Major accused of killing very soldiers he trained to help

Suspect was a study in contradictions

FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal M. Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Read More

Fort Hood losses more personal in Killeen, Texas

KILLEEN, Texas — They started lowering the flags to half-staff here before the Army had even finished counting the dead. Read More

Fort Hood Officer: N.C. community not surprised at heroics

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. -- The stepmother of the police officer who shot an Army psychiatrist suspected of the Ford Hood killing spree said Friday the woman's heroics are not surprising. Wanda Barbour told The Star-News of Wilmington she knew Sgt. Kimberly Munley was involved when she heard a female Fort Hood officer had shot and wounded Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, ending the bloodletting on the Texas base. Read More

Setting to work

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Heroes took huge risks to save others

Several soldiers leaped to action as horror unfolded

FORT HOOD, Texas -- Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted. A loud popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of "Gun!" Read More

Police: Man kills 1 at firm that fired him

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A man who was so deep in debt that he did not have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said. As officers led a handcuffed Jason Rodriguez into... Read More

Carriage company suspended

Draft horses working for Carolina Polo and Carriage Co. could take the busy Thanksgiving week off this year. Charleston tourism officials suspended the company's operations for 30 days, which amounts to Carolina Polo shutting down for seven days, and allows for an additional 23-day suspension if the company receives any more citations resulting in convictions during a three-month period. Read More

Veterans Day closings

The following offices will be closed Wednesday for Veterans Day: --City of Charleston offices --Charleston County offices --Town of Sullivan's Island offices --Town of Awendaw offices --Town of Hanahan offices --Banks ... Read More

Roads lead to traffic jam central

SUMMERVILLE -- An oncoming car smashed into a car trying to turn, and morning rush-hour traffic came to a stop, backing up in four directions. For nearly two hours. Read More

Ex-teacher's aide charged with cruelty toward child

Police report states teacher saw woman hit student

A former North Charleston teacher's aide is accused of mistreating two special-needs students. Irene Andrews, 60, of North Charleston is charged with two counts of cruelty toward a child. She is free on her own personal recognizance after she turned herself in Wednesday. Read More

Operation plant-rescue

C of C botanist hoping to save trees, flowers at site of new Boeing factory

Long before the Boeing Co.'s decision last week to build its second Dreamliner factory near the Charleston International Airport, before Vought Aircraft Industries and Global Aeronautica opened their fuselage plants nearby and even before that whole area fell under post-Sept. 11 security restrictions, a College of Charleston botanist traipsed through the woods back there and photographed a flower. Read More

Lowcountry Veterans Day calendar

2009 Veterans Day events and remembrances Read More