BRUCE SMITH

Associated Press Writer
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Spoleto Festival celebrates Philip Glass' 75th

The Spoleto Festival USA opens its 36th season Friday and among the planned performances is an opera by American composer Philip Glass to commemorate his 75th birthday and his long relationship with the internationally known arts festival.

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Ceremonies mark Confederate Memorial Day in SC

Confederate Memorial Day is being observed in South Carolina, the state where the Civil War began.

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Rare 270-year-old book found in SC library vault

A rare book almost 270 years old has been found in the vault of the oldest library in the South, but after all this time the library won't be able to keep it.

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Boeing rolls out first 787 manufactured in SC

Boeing rolled out the first jetliner made in the American South on Friday amid fireworks and the cheers of thousands of blue-clad workers shouting "We build jets."

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SC coroner: Mauling death of infant a homicide

Parental neglect led to the dismemberment and death of a 2-month old infant by a dog as the boy's father slept nearby, a South Carolina coroner ruled Monday.

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US regulators approve new South Carolina nukes

Federal regulators have approved plans to build two new nuclear reactors to generate electricity in South Carolina.

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For a century, underground railroad ran south

While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction.

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Hurricane Center chief predicts longer forecasts

The director of the National Hurricane Center expects the agency soon will be able to project storm positions a week ahead of time.

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5 years after headlines, SC monks grow mushrooms

Five years after an animal rights group complained about the treatment of chickens at an egg farm run by a Roman Catholic abbey in South Carolina, the monks are now earning their daily bread by growing mushrooms. It hasn't been easy or without frustration.

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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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