S.C. lottery sales pull a surprise The Charlotte Observer Despite the economy, sales January through June rose 3% over the same period in 2007. | By Roddie Burris | The (Columbia) State | Economic bad times are everywhere in South Carolina, but you wouldn't know it by soaring lottery-ticket sales. January to June, the state-run games raked in 3percent more...
Young people also suffer through the biggest jump in joblessness in at least 60 years Austin American Statesman | The financial pressures on adults are finally catching up with American teenagers. Since summer jobs dried up, gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon and parents ran out of spare cash, teens have had to cool it on spending for clothes. | "I've had to cut down on a bunch of stuff because I don't like s...
When to Water Florida Times Union | WHEN TO WATER | You can water today if your home address is an odd number in Columbia and Richmond counties, which are under Level Two restrictions. Watering is allowed from midnight to 10 a.m. on an even-odd basis based on street address. No water...
Hotel death sparks S.C. questioning The Columbus Dispatch LOGAN, Ohio -- South Carolina authorities say they are questioning people in southern Ohio about the death of a recent Logan High School graduate who fell from a sixth-story hotel window while in Myrtle Beach. | Eighteen-year-old Corey Kissling died ...
Tropical Storm Bertha approaches warmer waters The State | MIAMI -- | Tropical Storm Bertha is approaching warmer waters and is likely to strengthen during the next couple of days. | At 5 a.m. EDT Sunday, Bertha was centered about 1,310 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. | Maximum...
Car bomb kills 6, injures 14 in Baghdad The State | BAGHDAD -- | Iraqi police and medical officials say a car bomb in northern Baghdad has killed six people and injured 14 others, including three policemen. | The officials say Sunday's bombing occurred in the Shiite area of Shaab and the injured wer...
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AP-Yahoo News poll: 9 in 10 hit hard by gas prices Buffalo News | Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline has stolen a beach vacation in South Carolina from Julie Jacobs' family and exotic bath washes from Angela Crawford. Phil English had to sell his be...
Cigarette tax increase helps health, business The State By MICHAEL CRAPPS and PEGGY BAXTER - Guest Columnist | Gov. Mark Sanford's veto of a 50-cent cigarette tax increase, and the House of Representatives' rush to sustain that veto, ma...
Program to promote locally grown produce The State | Wal-Mart and the S.C. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that they would work together to promote locally grown produce in the retailer's stores. | The partnership - an ...
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot The State | TYNGSBOROUGH, Mass. -- | The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq. | Br...
20 killed, wounded in Afghanistan The State | KABUL, Afghanistan -- | Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense says more than 20 militants have been killed and wounded during a battle with NATO-backed Afghan forces. | The ministry says the militants were traveling in two vehicles when they were attac...
Panda moved after China quake gives birth to twins The State The Associated Press | BEIJING -- | A panda who was relocated after China's deadly earthquake damaged her home gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday, a state news agency said. | Guo Guo is the first panda to give birth since the 7.9-magnitude quake struc...
Analysis: Colombia's Uribe rides high after rescue The State | BOGOTA, Colombia -- | President Alvaro Uribe was master of ceremonies the night Colombian military intelligence agents disguised as humanitarian workers airlifted Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages to freedom. | Elated former captives of the R...
Anwar files suit against sodomy claim The State | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- | Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against a male aide who accused him of sodomy, vowing to clear his name in the second sex scandal of his life to thrown the country's politics into turmoil. | "I went through hell before," Anwar told The Associated Press in a telephone intervi...
3 rescued US hostages arrive safely in Texas The State | LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- | Three American hostages rescued from leftist guerillas in Colombia arrived safely in Texas late Wednesday and were taken to a hospital, where they were expected to reunite with their families and undergo tests. | The U.S. military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell - were held for fiv...
