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Shut down unlikely even as South Carolina virus cases rise
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — There are plenty of signs in the statistics that South Carolina is seeing a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state. Friday, Saturday and Sunday each had more than 300 new cases reported, the only days where new cases have topped 300 since the coronavirus was first detected...
Sheriff: Pause South Carolina protests after violence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than 110 people were arrested over the weekend in South Carolina and several businesses and other property damaged in Columbia and Charleston as a small group of people broke away from peaceful protests in several cities across the state. As people cleaned up for the damage,...
Business owners awake to destruction after SC protests
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some business owners in South Carolina swept up broken glass, boarded windows and took stock of ransacked shelves Sunday after protests erupted into violence across the state. Broken glass littered sidewalks outside storefronts in downtown Charleston, where restaurants and shops just...
Several days after Bertha, SC marks hurricane prep week
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina may have been hit by surprise Tropical Storm Bertha several days ago, but the state's hurricane preparedness week is getting ready to start. Gov. Henry McMaster signed a proclamation declaring Sunday through next Saturday as South Carolina Hurricane Preparedness Week....
SC reopening group finishes work; jobless claims remain high
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The committee assigned by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to plan to reopen the state after the initial spread of the coronavirus and figure out how to spend $1.9 billion in federal money finished its work Thursday. Accelerate SC submitted its 50-page report with 42 recommendations...
SC health agency leader steps down during pandemic
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The leader of South Carolina's health agency announced Wednesday that he is stepping down after a health scare to spend more time with his family as the state continues to fight the coronavirus. Rick Toomey's decision to leave the Department of Health and Environmental Control came...
Bertha forms, hits South Carolina coast, dissipates in a day
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha surprised the South Carolina coast Wednesday, forming, making landfall within two hours and was downgraded before sundown, bringing a poor beach day of rain and gusty winds, but no major problems. Forecasters expected the bad weather, but didn't predict it to...
Outbreak-related changes could mean record SC absentee votes
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Coronavirus-related changes to this year’s South Carolina primary elections, including universal absentee voting, mean that elections officials are expecting a high volume of absentee ballots, as well as possibly a long wait for results. On Monday, a federal judge temporarily...
SC education leader wants more summer school money
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's top education official wanted $115 million for summer school programs to get some of the state's most vulnerable students back on track after missing at least 10 weeks of in-person classes because of the coronavirus. But Accelerate SC, the state's special reopening...
Judge: SC voters don't need witness to sign absentee ballot
A federal judge says people voting by absentee ballot in South Carolina don't have to have a witness sign the voting papers. U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs on Monday ordered South Carolina officials to not enforce the requirement for a witness signature on ballots in the June 9 primary or any ensuing...
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