Lawmakers urge audit of Disabilities and Special Needs Dept
Five lawmakers led by House Speaker Bobby Harrell ask the Legislative Audit Council to examine spending standards and procedures at the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. They seek oversight on a $9.2 million bed initiative and a $170 million budget for brain injury and related disabilities, citing previous lawsuits and FOIA concerns. George Schroeder of the Audit Council expects a possible audit next month.
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Charleston
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Department of Disabilities and Special Needs
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Legislative Audit Council
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Senate
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Ways and Means
Dan Cooper
Sandbags as water hazard spark regulatory clash at Isle of Palms
Hundreds of five gallon sandbags used to protect property at Wild Dune resort have floated into sea and estuaries. Homeowners were fined for removal violations even as regulators told them to use the bags. Environmentalists warn bags attract marine life and may threaten endangered loggerhead turtles. Officials say higher capacity bags may replace the bags, but cleanup and state enforcement continue.
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Santee
State Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
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Seascape Condominium
Coastal Resources Office
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State Department of Health and Environmental Control
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
Environmental Agency
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Billy Fitch
Breach Inlet
Bill Eiser
Statt
BRIEFLY IUCK HILL fatal hit and run truck sought
Police hunt a dark blue or black Ford pickup believed involved in a fatal hit and run on Highway 322 in York County. Kenneth Paul Encinas Jr., 18, died after being struck Friday night. body found near the road. Truck likely has right front damage and headlight, per officials. He was walking home from a friend's house after seeing a movie.
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York County
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Highway Patrol
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Encinas
Heavy rain aids Georgia Florida wildfires containment
Tropical Storm Barry drenched northern Florida and southeastern Georgia with up to six inches, easing line crews across Ware Charlton and Clinch counties and parts of Baker and Columbia. About 85 percent of the blaze is contained after six weeks of effort by more than 1,500 firefighters. Fires destroyed homes, prompted evacuations, and forced interstate closures along I-10 and I-75 while smoke drifted into Atlanta and North Carolina.
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Columbia
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Mehires
Florida-Georga Line
North Carolina
Atlanta
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Stephen C. Foster State Park
Osceola National Forest
Christian Exodus founder plans to move to Palmetto State this summer
Anderson The founder of a movement to persuade conservative Christians to relocate to South Carolina to influence local politics says he plans his own move to the Palmetto State this summer Cory Burnell leader of the Christian Exodus says he has found a job and will move his family and operations to Anderson by July He notes preparations over years and expects two dozen more families to join by 2008 Burnell declines to name his employer citing privacy concerns The group aims to limit federal power and support candidates sharing their view that programs from education to housing should be state controlled Burnell chose South Carolina and the Upstate for its existing conservative Christian base
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Palmetto State
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Christian Exodus
Burnell
California
Texas
South Carolina
Upstate
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