Diversity push at College of Charleston aims higher
College of Charleston President Glenn McConnell outlined a plan to boost diversity, targeting a 6 percent black undergraduate population and proposing programs with counselors to recruit nontraditional applicants. The plan includes automatic admission for top tenth percent graduates from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties starting fall 2016, plus Breeland Scholarship for minority male teachers.
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Officials meet to talk bikefest security
State county and city leaders met in Myrtle Beach to discuss a traffic plan and funding for security during next year’s Atlantic Beach Bikefest. A joint task force was created to address the issue as towns propose plans like a one way 40 mile loop, with no full agreement yet. Police train and drill improvements followed last spring’s deadly shooting and campus lockdown drills.
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Gas prices in South Carolina dip below $3 a gallon
AAA Carolinas reports the average price for regular unleaded gas in South Carolina fell to $2.97 per gallon, eight cents lower than last week and 16 cents drop in a month. The Greenville Spartenburg area offers the cheapest at $2.92 while Charleston area stations top at $3.02.
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Two strikes mean life for armed robber
Greenville AP report says 50 year old James Bailey was convicted of armed robbery kidnapping and related charges after holding a Dollar General manager at knifepoint in April 2013 and stealing 22 dollars. With 11 prior armed robbery convictions he received a life sentence under the two strikes law. Dillon AP: Jimmy Watson 27 charged with murder armed robbery and other counts for killing his 92 year old grandfather Clyde Monahan and stealing his car. An autopsy is awaited and police report the death as a homicide.
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Call center in SC coast to create 600 plus jobs
Gov. Nikki Haley attended the StarTek ribbon cutting for a new call center in the Carolina Forest area near the Intracoastal Waterway. StarTek operates 15 centers worldwide and pledged 10 million dollars in Horry County by 2016, with 750 thousand from the local development agency. If 615 jobs and the 10 million investment aren’t hit by 2016, part of the incentive may be returned.
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