SEC probes collapse of Carolina Investors
The SEC is reportedly investigating the 2003 Carolina Investors and HomeGold Financial collapse in which over 8,000 investors lost more than 275 million dollars. South Carolina AG Henry McMaster says civil and criminal cases could follow. SEC would not confirm.
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Greenville
Federal Securities and Exchange Commission
Carolina
South Carolina
Henry McMaster
McMaster
SEC
HomeGold Financial
Jennifer Evans
HomeGold
Ronald Sheppard
University of South Carolina
Freeman
Carolina Investors- HomeGold
Ghostly clues tie to Smiths Hill poltergeist haunt
James and Kelly connect a name to the haunted house spirit using baby blocks to spell questions. Kelly worries over FIEGREF and dreams of a waterfall that turns into a flood waking her to see her mother and father stopping a water leak in the kitchen. The family cleans up as Kelly asserts she did not leave the faucet running.
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James
Kelly
Frances Smith
Fiegref
Leeapshelpem
Mom
Roger
Dad
Sphinx
Quiet Town Mystery Deepens Over Pranks
Kelly and James face escalating mischief after salt in sugar, shattered routines, and a cellar incursion. Parents urge responsibility as a neighbor’s rage signals a wider unresolved problem. Sam’s inert fury and a looming construction setback heighten tension in this quiet Aiken County scene.
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Kelly
James
Sam
Dad
Controversy Over Sanford Pick for DHEC Chair
Edwin Cooper nominated by Gov. Sanford to chair the DHEC board faces opposition from business leaders and a wary Senate panel. Critics say the choice favors environmentalists, urging a chair with manufacturing experience. Cooper defends a balanced board and notes his ties to land protection and rural property brokerage.
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Greenville
Mark Sanford
Environmental Agency Board
State Senate
Edwin Cooper
Sanford
Department of Health and Environmental Control Board
Lewis Gossett
South Carolina Manufacturers’ Alliance
Coastal Conservation League
Hagood
Brad Wyche
Cooper
DHEC
Ducks Unlimited
South Atlantic
Valentine card decades old links couple’s lasting love
In a Columbia apartment, Marion and Peggy Hook preserve a decades old Valentine card that began as a joke in 1936. Peggy recalls buying it at R L Bryan and sending it to Marion, then a pre med student. Marion, a battalion surgeon in WWII, signed it with friends and their joke evolved into a yearly ritual.
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Columbia
Marion
Peggy Hook
R.L. Bryan
USC
Marion Hook
Hook
George S. Patton
Europe
All
Love
Hooks
Sallie Boggs
Beth Bolton
Boggs
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Eeds
Carolina Investors
John Freeman
The
Pital
Washington Group International
Bridgestone
Firestone
Aiken County
Fikgref
Nancy Garden
Marilynne K Roach
Breakfast Serials, Inc
Breakfastserials.com
Gossett
Harvey Peeler
R-Gaffney
Senate Medical Affairs Committee
Peeler
Elizabeth Hagood
Riley’s
Whitby Bull
East Pine Log Road
Aiken Naturals Organic
COOP
Aikennaturals.org
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