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The State
By GINA SMITH - gnsmith@thestate.com SC Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly said it's time to alter the party's slogan, “We Pick Presidents” after the state's Republican voters defied a 32-year tradition in January's primary, choosing Newt Gingrich --

Police News
By Kirk Brown IVA, SC — Tempers are flaring in this feisty mill town over a pair of eye-catching billboards bashing the Iva Police Department. "Chief of police is a thief and town clerk and mayor know it" is one of the billboard messages.

Charleston Post Courier
In South Carolina, libraries in Orangeburg, Abbeville, Dorchester, Kershaw, Charleston and Beaufort counties are participating in the Freegal deal. Charleston and other libraries also offer free downloads of audio books and some e-books.

Hilton Head Island Packet
The South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department closed this year's oyster season May 15. Shellfish harvesting is prohibited during the summer months because of higher bacterial levels that occur when water temperatures are above 80 degrees.

BusinessWeek
By BRUCE SMITH After one of the driest, warmest winters on record, another South Carolina county was designated Wednesday as being in a severe drought. The State Drought Response Committee added Aiken County to the list of six other counties in the --
Anderson Independent Mail
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Dothan Eagle
Klondyke Gospel Music Center, located halfway between Newton and Ozark at 3885 Highway 123 S., will host Mercy Rain from Lexington, SC, May 25, and Walter Wilson from Dothan, May 26. Free admission. Concerts begin at 7 pm The Ark Christian Center will --

BlueRidgeNow.com
He died in Columbia, SC, on May 2, 2012 at the age of 90, following an extended illness. He and Margaret Verner King were married on September 19, 1947 in Abbeville, SC. Following grammar school in Rock Hill, his family moved to Gastonia, --

Greenville News
She is employed by Sharp Business Systems of SC. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Douglas Hill of Greenwood, SC. He is the grandson of Mrs. Beth Brock of Abbeville, SC. Mr. Robert Hill and the late Brenda Hill of Ware Shoals, SC.

Anderson Independent Mail
Friday's unprecedented political upheaval came two days after the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that candidates could not appear on election ballots if they failed to meet a March 30 deadline for submitting a statement of economic interests with --

Charleston Post Courier
As the state's chief financial officer, I see a more eminent concern: unchecked, the traditional model of public education in South Carolina will bankrupt the state within our lifetime. K-12 education now consumes a third of all state government --