Senate harbors seniors and long serving lawmakers
Senate harbors a cadre of elderly members led by Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings as 13 of 100 members are over 70. Thurmond since 1954 and Hollings since 1963 show seniority power. Article notes Byrd, Helms, Chafee and others, with voting records and historical context on senate tenure and election cycles.
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Washington
Ernest Hollings
South Carolina
Senate
Johnson
Stromp Thurmond
Hollings
Robert Byrd
D-W Va
William Roth
R-Del
Jesse Helms
Rn.c
John Chafee
Hawaii
Daniel Inouye
Daniel Akaka
Senate Commerce Committee
Thurmond
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Byrd
Donald Ritchie
Theodore Green
Rhode Island
John Stennis
Mississippi
House
Notre Dame
Robert Schmuhl
Congress
Marines Play at Hopeland Gardens in Summer Concert
About 2,000 people gathered at Hopeland Gardens for a United States Marine Corps Band performance as part of the Hopeland Gardens Summer Concert Series. Lisa Hall of the Aiken Parks and Recreation Department called it the biggest crowd yet, while attendees stayed cool with fans and enjoyed picnic setups as the band of around 50 musicians performed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopeland Gardens
United States Marine Corps
Lisa Hall
Aiken Parks and Recreation
Lois Henry
Aiken
Heat wave south Carolina feels cooler than DC and Philly
Inland counties in the Pee Dee faced a heat advisory while most of South Carolina posted barely above average temperatures. Beaufort hit 100 and Columbia 95 with Charleston at 98. Forecasters cited a sea breeze keeping SC cooler than other East Coast cities and noted a lingering cooling trend before a new heat advisory.
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Columbia
National Weather Service
Palmetto
Pee Dee
Tim Hawks
The
Weather Service
Hawks
Washington, D.C
Philadelphia
Beaufort
Charleston
City
Florence
Marlboro
Dillon
Marion
Darlington
Williamsburg
Horry
Georgetown
Dave Schuetrum
Fourth of July 1998 Deadliest for South Carolina Roads
The Fourth of July weekend saw at least 17 deaths on South Carolina highways, a record for the state. Victims included a 10-year-old boy and a newborn girl, with several crashes in Barnwell and Aiken counties. Authorities cited seatbelt use and restraint failures in several fatal head on collisions, including a crash on U.S. 278 east of Barnwell that involved Raesean Teasley and Micalah Priester.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Barnwell
Highway Patrol
Raesean Antwon Teasley
Micalah Priester
Allendale
U.S. 278
Jerry B. Faust
Wagener
Dixie Road
Aiken County
Wild Wild West tops Fourth of July box office chase
The Will Smith western sci fi thriller led the holiday weekend with 36.8 million in its opening, while Big Daddy dropped to second with 26.4 million. Tarzan earned 19.2 million and South Park opened at 14.8 million amid stricter R rating enforcement. Summer of Sam stood eighth with 7.8 million as the market grew 16 percent versus 1998.
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Los Angeles
Adam Sander
South Park
Paul Dergarabedian
Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc
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Mildred Jayne Long
North Augusta
Rowland Funeral Home
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Niken
Marines Storm Gardens
Hopelands
Michael W. Edmondson
Marine Corps
Mercury
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