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For modest earners, relief repaying student loans

Sunday, July 5, 2009

“It’s a way to borrow for college without going to the poor house,” says one student debt expert. But it's not for everyone.

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Big mainstream grocers chase Hispanic shoppers

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Several major chains are expanding their specialty offerings to capture business from Latinos, the country’s fastest-growing population and already almost one-sixth of the U.S. total in 2008. Other retailers are opening new stores that target Hispanic shoppers.

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Facebook to offer new features to control privacy

Sunday, July 5, 2009

For now the new features are available only to a limited number of users, but the company said it planned to provide them eventually to all 200 million people on the site.

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Manuel, 'old style' pro, leaving post

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The Collins Park Tennis Center won't be the same without Mark Manuel's welcoming hand. Manuel is stepping down after 35 years as the tennis pro for the City of North Charleston. "Mark was a throwback ... the old style tennis pro," said local tennis court builder Skip Scarpa.

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Organizers depend on DeMint to deliver views

Sunday, July 5, 2009

On a broiling Independence Day morning, more than 800 people crowded into Cannon Park in downtown Charleston for a sequel to this spring's anti-tax "Tea Party"— minus one of the movement's standard bearers, Gov. Mark Sanford.

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'Dear friend' no stranger

Sunday, July 5, 2009

If you do business in Columbia, you might know Warren "Cubby" Cul-bertson, real estate developer, owner of Reporting Services Inc. court reporting business. If you take a seat in upper-echelon, counsel-and-be-counseled Christian fellowship sessions, you do know him.

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Town honors combat fallen

Sunday, July 5, 2009

When retired Army Reserve Col. Mac Burdette thinks of typical war memorials, images of soldiers on horses, tombstones and tall obelisks come to mind.

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Fifth victim of serial killer

Sunday, July 5, 2009

GAFFNEY — A teenage girl shot while helping her father in their family's furniture and appliance store died Saturday, becoming the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer terrorizing the community, authorities said.

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Deaths & Funerals

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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Seeing red? ... It's on purpose

Sunday, July 5, 2009

If it seems like you're spending more of your life waiting at red traffic lights, you're absolutely right — at least in the city of Charleston. When the city reprogrammed its stoplights last year, it lengthened, usually by about a second, the amount of time that many lights remain red

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Literacy project to put interns in classrooms

Sunday, July 5, 2009

First-grade students' reading skills would improve and high-poverty schools would employ more minority teachers with graduate degrees if a new partnership between the Charleston County School District and the College of Charleston works out the way officials say it will.

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Palin cites 'higher calling'

Sunday, July 5, 2009

JUNEAU, Alaska — Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.

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Deaths Summary

Sunday, July 5, 2009

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One-on-One with John Frampton

Sunday, July 5, 2009

What was it like growing up in Summerville? "I remember when they put up the first signal light in town. It was very rural. People don't believe this, but I didn't wear shoes to school until the fourth grade. I had two older brothers.

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Boom Town

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Daniel Bearman and his girlfriend Lauren Gaylard (above) watch the fireworks Saturday over the Charleston Harbor from the Seabreeze Marina as they stand alongside the Stefanakos family.

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