House races to finalize 6.3 billion spending plan in South Carolina
The South Carolina House moves toward finalizing a 6.3 billion budget that fails to bridge the rift with Governor Mark Sanford. Sanford touts a 5.9 billion framework with a cap and taxpayer rebates while lawmakers push spending caps and questions on trust funds. Unemployment stood at 7 percent as the state recovers from Katrina.
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Mark Sanford
Sanford
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House Republican Caucus
New House Ways and Means Committee
Dan Cooper
Cooper
Piedmont
Associated Press
Joel Sawyer
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Ross Perot
Tom Davis
South Carolina
Mississippi
Shrimpers face new federal permits in offshore waters
Beginning next month shrimpers in federal waters beyond three miles off the Southeast coast must buy a fifty dollar permit per vessel. The rule aims to track harvests and vessel activity, drawing criticism from South Carolina Shrimpers Association and fisheries experts.
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Hilton Head Island
Clay Cable
South Carolina Shrimpers Association
Cable
South Carolina
Federal
Steve Branstetter
National Marine Fisheries Service
South Carolina Senate backs nonsmoking workplace ads
The bill would let employers advertise as nonsmoking workplaces and hire nonsmokers while state law still bars firing or denying promotions for smoking. The state Supreme Court overturned Michael Laney’s death sentence for killing two elderly women, ruling jurors were not told a life sentence carries no parole.
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State Supreme Court
Greenville
Fires in Williamsburg County Likely Connected Say Deputies
In Williamsburg County three fires last week appear linked authorities say. A blowtorch cut rock gates and damaged a storage building at a Trio hunting club, with wiring for a security camera cut. A separate blaze lit three mobile homes at a Salters hunting club and a fire damaged Jeremiah United Methodist Church in Hemingway.
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Florence
Williamsburg County
Dwayne Wilson
Trio
Salters
Jeremiah United Methodist Church
Hemingway
Fatal Marine Corps crash in Beaufort leaves one dead
A single car crash near the Piggly Wiggly in Beaufort County killed Lance Cpl. Sean Jackson and injured Pvt. Jeremy Maxwell and Lance Cpl. Jorge Cardona. All three Marines worked at Parris Island and lived in the single men’s barracks. The Marine base will decide on charges after its investigation.
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Sean Jackson
Montrose
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Beaufort County
Dan Byrne
Marines
Parris Island
Guillermo Canedo
Jeremy Maxwell
Memorial Health University
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Cardona
Maxwell
Canedo
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