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Spring break. Next year for the first time, Bob Jones University students will get spring break. Advice: Stay away from the Florida panhandle. More.
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North Charleston. The city did a good job responding quickly and decisively after a video showed a white officer shooting and killing an unarmed black man, but questions remain about the police department’s culture and the balance of safety, aggressive law enforcement and people’s liberties.
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Police shootings. More than 200 South Carolina police shootings of suspects in the last five years? Really? Let’s have a statewide discussion about the proper use of lethal force.
Kincannon. The arrest of former S.C. GOP executive director Todd Kincannon on a charge of criminal domestic violence is his latest run in with the law. More.
Edisto. The beautiful, black river that stretches through the state is on the national list of endangered waterways following withdrawals from megafarms. Studies are ongoing about the impact of withdrawals from the state’s river basins. More.
S.C. State lawsuit. Current students and alumni have filed a lawsuit against the state for treating S.C. State University differently than other land grant colleges. U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the school’s most prominent alumnus, said state lawmakers were partly to blame for the school’s financial woes. More.
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