Diversity grows in Wilmington area churches as languages expand
Churches in New Hanover County broaden offerings to Spanish Korean Japanese Portuguese attracting multiethnic congregants. The Portuguese Speaking Fellowship and local Korean and Chinese ministries reflect demographic shifts from 1990 to 2005 census updates. Maria Furtado and Silvia Bento highlight language unity and faith.
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Wilmington
N.C
New Hanover County
Maria Furtado
Wilmington Baptist Association
U.S
Silvia Bento
Bento
Brazil
Furtado
Laurens County man charged with harboring fugitive
Laurens County sheriff says Jerry Babb Woods Jr. of Waterloo housed Anthony Robin Christen after a boy was taken from a Spartanburg school on March 9. Woods faces accessory after the fact to a felony and police say Christen stayed in an outbuilding at Woods's residence.
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Spartanburg
Laurens County
Jerry Babb Woods Jr
Waterloo
Woods
Anthony Robin Christen
Ricky Chastain
Wood
Christen
Tragedy in Savannah: 12-Year-Old Boy Found Dead in Lagoon
The body of Thy Nguyen, 12, Autistic and nonverbal, was recovered from a lagoon near Whitemarsh Island, about 3:46 p.m. Sunday after he wandered from his home Saturday. Police say no foul play is suspected and the death will be investigated as a drowning.
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Savannah
Mike Wilson
Thy Nguyen
Whitemarsh Island
Wilson
Black lawmakers push progress over apologies in South Carolina
South Carolina black lawmakers balk at calls for apologies over slavery. They urge concrete progress in race relations rather than symbolic mea culpas. Other states like Georgia Missouri Virginia and Tennessee have pursued or debated formal apologies for slavery and Jim Crow era discrimination.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Georgia
Missouri
Virginia
Tennessee
Congress
Boy Scout Missing After Park Hike in North Carolina
In McGrady North Carolina a 12 year old Boy Scout Michael Auberry of Troop 230 Greens boro vanished during a group hike near Daughter Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Search teams including volunteers NPS rescue squads and a Highway Patrol helicopter scoured rugged terrain as his parents joined the effort. The boy wore a red coat gloves and a UNC Tar Heels cap and is described as 5 4 110 pounds with brown hair and glasses. Authorities say he may have wandered off and will press on with daylight searches.
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Mcgrady
N.C
Greensboro
Michael Auberry
Daughter Park
Blue Ridge Parkway
David Bauer
Auberry
Bauer
Kent Auberry
Winston-Salem Journal
Debbie Hayes
Michael
University of North Carolina Tar Heels
National Park Service
State Park System
Alleghany
Wilkes Counties
Highway Patrol
Dean offshoot trains state's Democrats
About 150 South Carolina Democrats gathered in Columbia for a Democracy for America training weekend. Howard Dean's group guided candidates activists and campaign staff through tactics aimed at regaining national party strength and winning elections with a 52 percent target.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Howard Dean
Democracy For America
Congress
House
GOP
Senate
Gilda Cobb- Hunter
Orangeburg
Harry Ott
St. Matthews
Tom Hughes
Dean
Hughes
Greenville launches family aid program for mentally ill inmates
A new program in Greenville funded by a 12000 grant from the National Alliance on Mental Illness aims to assist families of mentally ill inmates. The effort seeks to reach 100 families in the coming year, providing advocacy, medication and treatment information, and coordination with detention center staff.
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Greenville
National Alliance On Mental Illness
Kelly Troyer
Alliance
Troyer
JJ Larson
Greenville County Detention Center
Greenville County
John Eldridge
Larson
She
Redbay trees in Southeast face widespread death from imported beetle
Southeast forests lose redbay trees as the ambrosia beetle, likely carried in Asian packing wood, kills many on the coast. First detections were in 2002 at Port Wentworth. this year 2068 dead trees were counted near Hunting Island State Park, alarming ecologists and volunteers.
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Columbia
Asia
Port Wentworth
Savannah
South Carolina
Hunting Island State Park
Laurie Reid
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Sumter
Orchard Place
Derrick Damon Harriott
Quanna Renee Cooper
Patty Patterson
Patterson
Antonio Chapman
Harriott
Cooper
Chapman
Lagoon
N.C. Park
Doughton Park
Traphill
Associated Press
South Carolina Forestry Commission
California
Gregory D. Roberts
CFP
Aiken
Aiken South Carolina
Greg
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