Robbery at Wennys Hamburgers on Whiskey Road
A gunman robbed manager Jerry Flanders at Wennys Hamburgers on Whiskey Road just after midnight Tuesday. The assailant bound Flanders with his tie and wire, demanded cash and jewelry, then fled with about 2200 dollars, two diamond rings valued at 1800 dollars, and a watch after another employee fired. CHARLOTTE AP reports showing South Carolina home ownership at over 70 percent in 1989.
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Whiskey Road
Jerry Flanders
Flanders
Dottie Martin Named Research Director for Energy Committee
Dottie Martin has been named research director for the Joint Legislative Committee on Energy and will handle solid waste legislation in the upcoming General Assembly session. She also pursues night courses in public affairs at Columbia College, judges beauty pageants, reads political books, cooks, and makes wreaths and home decorations.
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Dottie Martin
Joint Legislative Committee On Energy
General Assembly
Columbia College
New Year's Eve Pup Zana Sparks Home Scene
Annette and Bob Downing celebrate with their labrador Zana who enters with a live shrew and drops it on the couch delighting in the chase before releasing the unharmed creature. The item ties into a Columbus anniversary coin proposal supported by Farmer's Almanac and others urging a gold-toned dollar design bearing Columbus's likeness.
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Annette
Bob Downing
Zana
Christopher Columbus
America
The
Farmer's Almanac
Birthdays for James Berry Elizabeth Lott and Mary Lee Salters
James Berry Elizabeth Lott and Mary Lee Salters celebrate birthdays with family and friends. The occasions highlight their years of life and well wishes from loved ones.
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James Berry
Elizabeth Lott
Mary Lee Salters
USC Could Pick New President Friday Trustees Near Decision
Four candidates and their spouses attend closed door interviews as USC trustees prepare a Friday vote for a new university president. Interim president Smith leads after James Holderman’s resignation amid spending controversy.
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USC
Columbia
University of South Carolina
Michael Mungo
Mungo
College of Charleston
Harry M. Lightsey
University of Akron
William V. Muse
Georgia State University
John M. Palms
Smith
James Holderman
First New Year Baby Born in Aiken County Tremaine Devon Brown
Tremaine Devon Brown, born at 12 35 a.m. at Aiken Regional Medical Centers, weighed six pounds eight ounces and is the first New Year baby in Aiken County. Debra Lamb, the mother, praised her son's calm demeanor after a boisterous night and shared joy at the milestone for her family.
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Tiny Tremaine
Debra Lamb
Thomas
Fatal New Year holiday on South Carolina roads claims at least 14
The Associated Press tallies 14+ road fatalities in South Carolina over the New Year weekend. Victims include William Glen Morris of Lake City struck on SR 341, Ronnie S. Bunch of Holly Hill in a crash on SR 38-68, and others across Florence, Orangeburg, Lancaster, North Charleston, Aynor, Greenville, and Anderson counties plus a child, Jennifer Harrison, in Greenville County.
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South Carolina
William Glen Morris
Lake City
Florence County
State Highway Patrol
Columbia
Ronnie S. Bunch
Holly Hill
Orangeburg
James R. McCorkle
Fort Lawn
Lancaster
Yall King
North Charleston
Ray Shokes
Greenville County
Charlie Garrett
Bobby Jean Hodge
Dillon
Dorsie Leon Arvin
Ravenel
Raven Arvin
Charleston County
Pauline
Thomas D. Walker
Fountain Inn
Carennville
Parks Evans
Walker
Evans
Marcus Platt
E. Ray Shokes
Platt
Shokes
William D. McCullough
Anderson
U.S. 76
Anderson County
McCullough
Lake Hartwell
Greg Shore
James Catoe
Elgin
Associated Press
Bobby's Bar-B-Q Set To Open Feb 1
Bobby's Bar-B-Q in Aiken County, destroyed by a March fire, is set to reopen February 1 with fire walls a metal roof and rafters and an enlarged seating capacity up to 400. The two story cedar building will include a reconstructible porch and a 150 seat meeting room.
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Bobby
Aiken County
U.S. 1
Barbara Grifin
Bobby's
United Merchants and Manufacturers
Griffin
Blout
1980s Were A Decade Of Weather Extremes
South Carolina faced six record low temperatures and two record highs in the 1980s amid droughts in 1983 and 1986 and notable events like Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and a 1984 tornado outbreak. State climatologist John Purvis links these trends to global warming and notes shifting regional impacts with several extreme barometric pressures recorded.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Southeast
John Purvis
United States
Purvis
Hugo
Greenville
Charleston
Civil rights rally denounces racial justice in South Carolina
About 400 people gathered in Greenville for a New Year's Day march to demand better education and jobs for Black residents and to denounce the judicial system. Speakers pressed for more Black judges, public advisory panels in 16 circuits, and equal access to employment and education.
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Greenville
South Carolina
JM. Flemming
Springfield Baptist Church
Lillian Brock Flemming
Promised Land
James S. Hall Jr
Philadelphia
Robert Young
The
NAACP
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Becker
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Ms. Lamb
Sunny Southworth
Darnell Pringle
Manning
U.S. 15
Summerton
Richard Anderson
Roebuck
Associa
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