Hunley crew to lie in state at museum burial planned
Eight crewmen of the Confederate submarine H L Hunley will not lie in state at the South Carolina State House. They will lie in state two days aboard the USS Yorktown at a Mount Pleasant museum before burial in Charleston on April 17. The Hunley sank the Housatonic off Charleston on February 17, 1864.
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S C ETV Receives Grant to Upgrade Signals Nationwide
South Carolina Educational Television will share a $296,000 federal grant from the Commerce Department. SC ETV plans to use 156,744 to upgrade communications towers in Allendale Beaufort Conway Florence Greenwood Rock Hill and Spartanburg. The funds fund digital conversion and high definition broadcasting upgrades after FCC rules in 2001.
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South Carolina Briefs Refine Public TV Grant and Local News
South Carolina Educational Radio receives 136,545 to upgrade WRJA Sumter transmitter antenna line and monitoring gear as part of 14 million Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants nationwide. In other news, a fatal police shooting near Iva identified Furman Douglas Manley II. Ira Sgt. Niki Parks placed on leave pending investigation. Also a Washington AP note shows John Edwards leading in SC Democratic primary polls with 42 percent undecided and Edwards at 16 percent in a Sept. poll.
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Somali Bantu arrival date delayed to after January
About 120 Somali Bantus are to settle in Columbia as part of a major U S resettlement effort. The State Department said they will not arrive until after Jan 1, delaying the planned arrival date. Local coordinator Rev Richard Robinson said the delay was not unexpected, noting such postponements are common in refugee programs.
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