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The Post and Courier has stopped the presses in Charleston one final time as we move to our new press in North Charleston.
See some pics of the final print:bit.ly/3YAStdm
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I'm old enough to remember when reporters looked into candidates' backgrounds before an election.
This story is bonkers.
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What started as a simple look at Long Island's dynamic new congressman became something much stranger, as basic details of Mr. Santos’s personal history came into question. Many questions remain. w/@migold nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyr
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Texts between Hogan Gidley and Hope Hicks that the 1/6 committee just showed.
Hicks testified she told Eric Herschmann that Trump should make public a request the event be nonviolent but Herschmann said Trump refused
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The U.S. scored a $4 billion windfall selling releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve:
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Several raids across the Midlands followed the next day with nearly 300 dogs seized in what the U.S. Attorney’s Office calls the “biggest takedown of a dogfighting operation in South Carolina history.”
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In the middle of a dogfight, authorities with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and State Law Enforcement Division raided the Eastover property, seizing 14 dogs and arresting at least 17 people. bit.ly/3FF79Q9
Rock Hill is paying developers to create affordable housing that most people can't afford.
Maggie Brown reports:
We've spent ten months reporting from inside Ukraine. With secret battle plans and interviews with Russian soldiers, here now is the story of what Putin's war looks like on the other side: a calamity of historic proportions with no end in sight.
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Another year, another year-in-photos! Thank you Charleston and South Carolina for allowing me in to tell your stories.
I look forward to doing even more long-form visual narratives in 2023.
Check out more of my favorite moments at andrewjwhitaker.com/best-of-2022
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“Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall (sic) Law!!” - SC congressman wrote (11 days after the Jan 6 insurrection)
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"To be clear, what he was calling for was the equivalent of a coup. An effort by a defeated president to prevent his lawfully elected successor from taking office," our editorial staff writes.bit.ly/3V146HQ
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“And they excerpted and translated footage from favorite pundits, like the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose remarks were shown to millions of Russians”
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Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster mined right-wing American news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning. Here’s how one local news clip in the U.S. became part of Russian TV propaganda. nyti.ms/3FVMPey
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This is big for government transparency in Oregon.
singlehandedly obstructed a city's release of public records -- showing how much water it pulled from the Columbia River.
The sued. And won.
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Make no mistake. This is an odd movie. But it may be the best independent movie made in Charleston — that you’ve never seen.
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York County and Rock Hill will have to wait a bit longer in efforts to recover public money given to the failed Carolina Panthers’ $500 million practice facility and headquarters after a federal judge delayed the confirmation of bankruptcy proceedings.
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Today’s entry from Bad Newspaper Owners.
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U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman is facing pressure to resign from Democrats in his SC congressional district after a string of text messages revealed the Republican called for a military takeover to keep then-President Trump in power after his 2020 election defeat.
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New Jersey is moving towards maximizing cheap, renewable energy.
The first step: blow up one of the state's last coal-fired power plants
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Weekly COVID-19 update for Dec. 4- Dec. 10: 6,501 new cases, 17 new deaths, and a percent positive of 15.7%. See today's updated COVID-19 and vaccine data at scdhec.gov/covid19data.
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Offshore wind is finally becoming a reality in the US, with two East Coast wind farms set to come online next year and more in progress
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A homebuilder recently bought another parcel in Cane Bay Plantation in Berkeley County. The unincorporated development is permitted for 15,700 homes. At full buildout, the community will have more people than the city of Spartanburg.
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This seems oddly specific:
"The whole thing takes about four minutes, just enough time for someone who’s waiting for a bus or train, or trying to avoid talking to their stepdad while being driven to soccer."
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An oil spill from TC Energy’s Keystone pipeline this week is on track to be one of the largest onshore crude disasters of the decade
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Charleston County sheriff's deputy Alan Michael Kendall was driving at 130 mph — and accelerating — when he hit Sandra Eisner's car on the busy highway, according to a Dec. 8 civil complaint.
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The fight to recover funds expended on the failed Carolina Panthers’ $500M practice facility and headquarters in Rock Hill is nearing a close with a newly announced settlement, but a criminal probe over whether those funds were misappropriated continues.
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I enjoyed having the Stadia (video game streaming) service during the pandemic, and I'm really enjoying Google refunding all the money I spent now that Stadia is being shut down. Already received the refunds
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When the platform shuts down in January 2023, Google will issue full refunds to Stadia users. Here's how you can get yours. trib.al/VdPOMuV
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New SC ed superintendent's grad degree prompts more oversight at Bob Jones University | SC Education Lab | postandcourier.com
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The list of battery makers moving to South Carolina continues to grow with Turkish company Kontrolmatik Technologies announcing plans on Dec. 7 to open a $279 million factory in Colleton County.
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After warning of a staffing crisis, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department will go from offering one of the lowest starting salaries for deputies in the state to offering one of the highest.
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Staring at a $1.78 billion price tag for the county's share of the Mark Clark Extension, county council members say an increase in the sales tax seems the most likely way to pay for it.
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Germany has arrested 25 people suspected of supporting a far-right domestic terrorist organization that planned to overthrow the government. Many had military training and were influenced by America’s QAnon.
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South Carolina is poised to spend up to $226 million in taxpayer-funded debt to land a battery recycling plant that is eyeing Berkeley County for what would be the state's largest-ever economic development deal.
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If given final approval at council’s Dec. 20 meeting, police and fire workers will see a 12 percent raise and all other employees will get a 13.3 percent raise in 2023.
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Charleston City Council voted 10-3 to give initial approval to a $287 million budget Dec. 6 that includes a tax increase and $16.5 million in pay raises for all city employees.
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#BREAKING: Former President Trump’s company is convicted for the first time on criminal charges for a long-running tax fraud scheme.
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The updated price tag for the Mark Clark Extension is $2.2 billion.
That means Charleston County would have to come up with $1.78 billion
This is entertaining, unsettling, and important
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"ChatGPT is, quite simply, the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public," @kevinroose writes. nyti.ms/3UAvbRC
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Hertz said Monday it will pay $168 million to settle hundreds of claims by customers who were falsely reported by the rental car company as having stolen its vehicles, with some innocent renters arrested and jailed for weeks or months over the reports.
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SCOOP: Ex Miami Congressman David Rivera has been arrested at Atlanta's airport in connection to a criminal probe involving a $50 million consulting contract he signed with a U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.
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Gov. Henry McMaster wants to block access to TikTok from all state-owned cellphones and computers, saying the popular video sharing app should be permanently removed from devices to protect South Carolina residents and businesses.
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