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Underground wall OK'd
Foes vow appeal after regulators approve structure beneath spit on Kiawah
KIAWAH ISLAND -- In the high-stakes battle over the future of Capt. Sam's Spit, state regulators gave the island's developer a green light this week to build an unusual underground wall below the spit's dunes.
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Historic bridge to go
'Five Mile Viaduct' over Meeting Street Road in serious disrepair; span will be replaced
When it was built in 1926, the handsome "Five Mile Viaduct" bridge in Charleston's Neck area was extolled for its smooth asphalt surface and graceful leap over a busy railroad crossing.
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McGinley settles confusion over school's handicapped parking
For a couple of weeks or so this past month, students and parents entering the Sixth Grade Academy in North Charleston walked directly by cars belonging to the school principal, assistant principal and secretary, all parked atop bright blue spaces designated for the handicapped.
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DHEC probing particles in water
Agency testing wells near coal-fired power plant
CANADYS -- State environmental officials sampled wells next to a coal-fired power plant here Tuesday, two days after a Post and Courier Watchdog report raised questions about whether coal particles are getting into the area's aquifer.
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What are these black particles?
Health and safety concerns bring to light a longtime issue for Canadys residents living near coal-fired plant
CANADYS -- People living in the shadows of the South Carolina Electric & Gas coal plant here have wondered for years about the black specks in their drinking water. When they turn on their faucets, water sometimes pours out in a gray gush. When they do laundry, their clothes get stained.
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Error with scooter stops big rig cold
COLUMBIA -- Bob Morookian was cruising along Highway 131 outside Monroe County, Wis., some 1,000 miles from his Mount Pleasant home, when a DMV policy stranded him at a truck stop with an 80,000-pound rig, a hazardous load and no license.
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ProPublica report: Stimulus Dollars For Schools Miss The Mark
ProPublica report: South Carolina has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates, but the state is taking its time using federal stimulus money to launch job-producing road projects.
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Rehab house relapses
Faith Haven program for recovering addicts must find yet another home after internal squabbles
Wendy Johnston insists she's on a mission to save lives, but others have a dimmer view of her efforts to house recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in a stately mansion in one of Charleston's premier neighborhoods.
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Watchdog update: More contamination found at SCE&G Wateree coal plant
Consultants have found new evidence that arsenic is seeping from SCE&G's coal ash pond along the Wateree River, not far from Congaree National Park.
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Airline reconsiders, reinstates mileage award
MOUNT PLEASANT -- Businessman Paul Jinks is no stranger to flying the friendly skies. He has flown more than a million miles with Delta Airlines and long ago made arrangements so his children in England could use frequent-flier miles to visit him here.
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Tony Bartelme
Parking Privileges: The Post and Courier Watchdog team recently hit the streets of Charleston to gauge the abuse of handicapped parking system.
Post and Courier Investigations
A collection of award-winning Post and Courier special reports
Toxic Ash: A License to Pollute
Across South Carolina, leaking coal ash dumps are creating new pollution headaches, a new Watchdog investigation shows. What are state officials doing about it?
The Great Train Debate
Eight-day series wrestles with the question: Should we build
a commuter train between Summerville and Charleston?
Parking Cheaters
A growing number of hospital workers, downtown merchants and others are using parking placards for the handicapped to cheat the city out of thousands of dollars in parking meter revenue.
Day Care Roulette
An analysis by The Post and Courier of state inspection reports for day care facilities reveals that parents often roll the dice with their children's health and safety when they leave them in the custody of many day care centers.
The Mercury Connection
Health officials have warned for years that many of the state's lakes and rivers are tainted with mercury and cautioned people not to eat certain fish. But the state never checked to see if people were being poisoned, too.
The Sofa Super Store Fire
A special section with every story, photo galleries and audio & video clips from the fire that killed nine fire fighters.
A three-day series of articles on why South Carolina's public school buses are the nation's oldest, most polluting and least safe.
