Brian Hicks
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Brian Hicks is a senior writer with The Post and Courier. In his 10 years with the paper, he has covered a wide variety of subjects, including politics and news of the weird (also known as politics). His reporting has won 20 S.C. Press Association Awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1998. He is also the author or co-author of four books, including the local history yarn "Raising the Hunley," which was so popular it was even translated into Czechoslovakian. Really.
Recent Stories
District headquarters handles S.C. kids' letters to Santa
Yes, Carolina, there is a Santa Claus. And if you live in South Carolina, anyway, he'll answer your letter.
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A WWII Yorktown love story
Sixty-seven years ago, a couple of kids from South Carolina met in Washington, D.C. They were from different parts of the state -- Evelyn was from Spartanburg, Harold from Orangeburg. The same thing had brought them there: Pearl Harbor.
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Going after Graham might be a bad idea
Apparently Lindsey Graham has gone too far this time. Last week, the Charleston County Republicans voted to censure South Carolina's senior senator for various offenses. On Monday, the Berkeley County GOP delayed a vote on their own official reprimand.
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Recognizing our heroes
They don't call them the Greatest Generation for nothing. On the aircraft carrier Yorktown on Saturday afternoon, veterans, members of the Yorktown Association and a Medal of Honor recipient honored the people who served in World War II.
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Residents upset over changed treescape
Utility says trimming done with help of arborists
James Island residents say the trees along Harbor View Road look like extras in a slasher film -- they've been butchered, decapitated and chainsawed. And they blame SCE&G for the slaughter. Along the road, trees have been cut back at least 10 feet from power lines.
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Tiny town becomes war zone
They dread sundown, worry every time headlights pierce the darkness of their street, feel their hearts jump at the roar of an engine. They stay indoors, avoid windows. They are afraid to speak publicly of what's going on, lest they become targets.
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Tot's life story ends abruptly
Shaniyah Burden is going to miss a lot of things in life. She will never watch a high school football game on a crisp fall evening, never go to the prom, or graduate from college.
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Musical bolt from the blue
Sometime during the Citadel-Wofford game on Saturday, folks in the stands will be serenaded by piano music from the heavens. In more ways than one.
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Letting Fox News set agenda
So the people at Fox News say they now know where the Guantanamo Bay detainees (read: suspected terrorists) "could be going."
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Letters illuminate first search for the Hunley
In the fall of 1864, a U.S. Navy officer serving in the blockade of Charleston set out on a quest that would consume some men for more than a century.
He wanted to find the H.L. Hunley.
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