Navy sub collides with fishing boat off Honolulu
The USS Greeneville collided with a Japanese fishing boat nine miles off Honolulu Harbor on Friday. Nine people are missing after the boat sank, while 26 survivors clung to three life rafts and were brought ashore by the Coast Guard. Navy and Coast Guard vessels search for the missing crew. The collision occurred during routine patrol near Oahu at about 1:45 pm per Navy spokeswoman Lt Cmdr Jane Campbell.
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Coast Guard
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Cmdr
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Drought Persists Across South Carolina Sees Three More Months
State Climatology Office warns SC remains in drought with no relief in three months. A third dry winter may fail to recharge lakes and groundwater, leaving ponds and wells dried. Drought began June 1996 with areas 30 inches below normal rainfall. coordinator Hope Mizell notes continued heavy toll on resources.
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South Carolina
State Climatology
Hope Mizell
Mizzell
Deaths Freddie Holloway Levom Taylor Leroy Walker
Obituary notices list Freddie Holloway Levom Taylor and Leroy Walker with brief biographical details and funeral arrangements as reported in the 5A section.
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Freddie Holloway
Levom Taylor
Leroy Walker
Bridge Comics Crossword evar Abby Movies Sports Stocks
Readable fragments outline varied items across pages including bridge scores and comics panels. Mentions Abby in captions and a few movie notes alongside sports and stock brief items. No cohesive single story. itemized summary of diverse short items from the page.
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Bridge Comics
Evar
Wise appeal unlikely in death row case says expert
Convicted killer Arthur Hastings Wise was executed after a Sept 1997 attack on four coworkers. His lawyers argue he refused to act in his defense but legal experts doubt this will sway the state Supreme Court. Wise was deemed competent to lead his own defense.
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Arthur Hastings Wise
Woning
State Supreme Court
Bill McAninch
McAninch
David Bruck
Susan Smith
Vigil goes on for Aiken girl
An 16 month old Aiken girl remains in critical condition on life support at the Medical College of Georgia Children’s Medical Center after a violent shaking incident last Saturday. Saquan Tyrone Bostick, 26, is jailed on a charge of infliction causing great bodily injury to a child, with potential upgrade to homicide by child abuse if she dies.
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Augusta
Makaylia Coleman
Michael Frank
Aiken County
Saquan Tyrone Bostick
Apt. B
University Parkway
Sheriff's Office
Makaylia
Bostick
Avis Moore
Aiken County Detention Center
Ellenton
Brittany Nicole Weeks
Thurmond slows daily pace after hospital stay
South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, 98, plans to curtail his schedule and rest more after a weekend at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for extreme fatigue. His spokeswoman says he will not gavel the Senate to order as often, though he has returned to work.
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South Carolina
Columbia
Strom Thurmond
Senate
Genevieve Erny
Thurmond
Aiken praised as top relocation site by Expansion Management
Expansion Management magazine ranks the Aiken Augusta market as the 13th hottest area to relocate or expand a business. UPS will bring 542 jobs to Aiken at the Centennial Corporate Center as an extension of its Louisville operation.
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United Parcel Service
Aiken
Aiken-Augusta
Expansion Management Magazine
Lance Yoder
Rachael Hedeath
Expansion Management
Aiken- Augusta
South Carolina
Yoder
UPS
Centennial
Louisville
Economic Development Partnershipf
Edgefield Counties
Fred Humes
Allendale-Fairfax High School principal fired shockwaves through district
The Allendale County School District dismissed Dr. Michael McIntosh, principal of Allendale-Fairfax High School, for breach of contract terms. Interim principal Ivan Cohen will run the school until Feb. 16, with Alfonso Lamback expected to assume the post on Feb. 19. Lamback, a former Leavelle MacCampbell Middle principal, currently ends a special education role after leaving Area 1 duties to accept the new position. The district cites McIntosh missing principal certification as a key reason for termination.
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Allendale County
Michael McIntosh
Allendale-Fairfax High School
Mary Anne Byrd
South Carolina Department of Education
Allendale-Fairfax High
Byrd
Ivan Cohen
AHS
Alfonso Lamback
Aiken
Lamback
Leavelle MacCampbell
Graniteville
Administracs Public Schools
East Aiken
Area 1
Ing David Caver
Caver
McIntosh
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