Graniteville train wreck marks one month of recovery
Debra Whitmer recalls how her 4 and 5 year old sons Cam eron and Jordan calm after the derailment a half mile from home. The chlorine tanker rupture forced evacuations for six days and left lingering fears as life slowly returns to normal. 780 treated at five area hospitals mostly released. one child remains in Augusta for respiratory issues.
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Graniteville
Debra Whitmer
Cameron
Jordan
Whitmer
Doctors Hospital
Augusta
Ginger Tyra
Phil Watson
Jordan Whitmer
Graniteville residents gather for public meeting on chlorine tragedy
About 200 Graniteville residents meet Monday night at Leavelle McCampbell Middle School. Flags fly at half staff in memory of victims of the January chlorine gas leak from a train wreck as officials address attendees.
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Graniteville
Leavelle McCampbell
Concerns Rise Over Tort Reform After Avendale Mills Death
Residents questioned lawmakers from the 2A South Carolina House of Representatives about how tort reform could impact civil action claims stemming from a Graniteville incident. Sara Kennebeck tearfully described the loss of her 24 year old son John Laird Jr an Avon dale Mills employee who died.
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South Carolina
House of Representatives
Sara Kennebeck
John Laird Jr
Avondale Mills
Trenton Woman Dies In Springfield Church Road Wreck
Leslie Devon Hall, 46, of Harris Family Circle in Trenton, died at the scene after her 2004 Volkswagen Beetle ran a stop sign on Springfield Church Road and collided with a northbound SCE&G line truck on SC Highway 19. The truck driver was uninjured.
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Ginny Southworth
South Carolina Highway Patrol
S.C. Highway 19
Springfield Church Road
Trenton
Leslie Devon Hall
Harris Family Circle
Aiken
Tim Carlton
Edgefield
Hall
Volkswagen
Sce&g Line
S.C. Highway Patrol
Lance Cpl
Dwight Green
Green
Bush proposes austere budget cutting broad programs
President Bush introduces a 2.57 trillion budget cutting non security domestic spending by about one percent. The plan eliminates or slashes more than 150 programs including Medicaid housing for the disabled Amtrak subsidies and drug prevention in schools as Congress faces a difficult path to passage.
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Congress
Bush
White House
Reagan
Amtrak
DOE budget trimmed but SRS funding stable under proposal
The 2006 DOE budget shows a 2 percent reduction to 23.4 billion with Savannah River Site missions largely funded at 2005 levels. SRS earmarks include 400 million for Defense Waste Processing Facility and 70 million for Salt Waste Processing Facility, along with 8 million for the glass waste storage building and 10 million for the plutonium vitrification line. Environmental management at SRS totals 1.352 billion, down 5.9 percent from 2005.
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U.S. Department of Energy
DOE
Energy
Samuel Bodman
Joe Davis
Savannah
SRS
Defense
Davis
Tom Clements
Greenpeace International
Proposed budget figures for environmental and defense facilities
The proposal outlines Environmental Management funding at 1.352 billion, Defense Waste Processing Facility 400 million, Mixed Oxide Fuel 338.6 million, and Salt Waste Facility 70 million.
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Defense
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Jessica Roberts
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Washington
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Bodman
Hanford
Wash
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