BRUCE SMITH

Associated Press
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Coll. of Charleston's Cremins takes medical leave

Bobby Cremins' assistant says the veteran basketball coach hasn't looked well the past few weeks and Friday evening the College of Charleston announced Cremins will miss the rest of the season because of a medical problem.

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WWII destroyer returns to SC home after repairs

With the blare of air horns, cheers and a champagne toast, "The Ship That Would Not Die" returned Wednesday to its home at a maritime museum on Charleston Harbor on the South Carolina coast.

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Small SC wildly succeeded at making voice heard

South Carolina Republicans established their presidential primary more than three decades ago as way to raise the state's national political profile. They succeeded wildly.

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Comedian Colbert campaigns day before SC primary

Comedian Stephen Colbert, who says he's running for president of "The United States of South Carolina," is urging voters in Saturday's presidential primary to cast their ballots for former Republican hopeful Herman Cain.

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Comedian Colbert campaigns day before SC primary

Comedian Stephen Colbert, who says he's running for president of "The United States of South Carolina," is urging voters there to cast their ballots in Saturday's presidential primary for former GOP hopeful Herman Cain.

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Spoleto Festival USA unveils lineup for new season

The American premiere of the Philip Glass opera "Kepler," a concert by vocalist k.d. lang, and the return of Dublin's Gate Theatre highlight the 36th season of the Spoleto Festival USA this spring.

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Lawsuit: Citadel was negligent in sex abuse case

A lawsuit against The Citadel charges the South Carolina military college was "grossly negligent" in its handling of a sex abuse complaint four years ago.

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Congressman: Immigrants can fight tough new SC law

An Illinois congressman is urging federal officials to drop deportation proceedings against a South Carolina worker.

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SC Episcopal bishop cleared by national panel

A committee of the national Episcopal Church says its investigation of the conservative bishop of one of the oldest Episcopal dioceses in the United States concluded he has not abandoned the church amid the ongoing schism over the ordination of gays and other issues.

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Gullah-language Bible now on audio CDs

More than three decades after translators began putting the words of the New Testament into Gullah, everyone can now hear those words in the creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants along the sea islands of the nation's Southeast coast.

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SC bishop being investigated amid Episcopal schism

The conservative leader of the Episcopal diocese of South Carolina, which has roots stretching to before the American Revolution, is the first bishop facing discipline from the national church over the ongoing schism over the ordination of gay ministers.

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Citadel says it should have pursued abuse report

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Citadel's president said Monday that South Carolina's state military college lost public trust by not aggressively pursuing a 2007 report of sexual abuse allegedly committed at its former summer camp by an ex-counselor.

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Romney: Rebuild defense, add 100,000 troops

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday America must not economize on security but rather strengthen national defense by rebuilding the Navy and Air Force and adding 100,000 active duty personnel.

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Rebel flag still flying in black SC neighborhood

A year ago, dozens marched to protest the Confederate flag a white woman flew from her porch in a historically black Southern neighborhood. After someone threw a rock at her porch, she put up a wooden lattice. That was just the start of the building.

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Sinise honors wounded vets at SC's Lt. Dan Weekend

Ever since playing Lt. Dan — the character in the movie "Forrest Gump" who lost his legs fighting in Vietnam — actor Gary Sinise has devoted time and treasure to helping the nation's military personnel and first responders.

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Romney: NLRB Boeing complaint political payback

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, fresh from picking up former rival Tim Pawlenty's endorsement, criticized the Obama administration's links to organized labor, arguing that a National Labor Relations Board's complaint against Boeing is White House payback to unions.

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US Sen. DeMint: No plans now to seek re-election

Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he has no plans to seek re-election in 2016.

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Irene cleanup could take days along East Coast

With Irene gone, cleanup crews began pumping water out of soggy subway tunnels, fixing traffic lights in the nation's capital and clearing debris from hundreds of roads as the East Coast readied for the workweek. While early indications were that the damage was not as bad as feared, it will be days before things get back to normal in many places.

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Bachmann: Voters worried about jobs, not gaffes

Voters are more concerned about jobs and the economy than an occasional gaffe by a candidate, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Friday.

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Liberty University: SC pastor never attended

The registrar at Liberty University in Virginia says a pastor charged with kidnapping and raping three women at gunpoint never attended the university.

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Ex-SC Gov. Sanford talks about life after office

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says politics are not in his immediate plans but he still has his sights on serious issues such as the deficit facing the nation.

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Gingrich: Nation needs new energy policy

Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is calling for a new national energy policy to include drilling for natural gas off the South Carolina coast.

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Judge considers union lawsuit against SC governor

A federal judge is hearing arguments over anti-union statements made by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and the head of the state's labor department.

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Dolly Parton launches pirate show on SC coast

Dolly Parton has hoisted the Jolly Roger on the South Carolina coast with the opening of Pirates Voyage, the new dinner theater show that takes the place of her popular Western-themed Dixie Stampede.

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Few blacks attend Civil War anniversary events

As cannons thudded around Charleston Harbor this week in commemoration of the start of the war that extinguished slavery, the audiences for the 150th-anniversary events were nearly all-white. Even black scholars lecturing about black Union troops and the roots of slavery gazed out mostly on white faces.

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