They all asked for mercy, but in the end, seven Wando High School students will go to prison. For how long depends on them.
Sentenced Tuesday for their role in the armed robbery of a Food Lion grocery store were Christopher Cousins, Graham Stolte, Jackie Washington, Michael Dawley, Vincent Weiner, Max Hartwell and Patrick Brown.
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Creating a new court to help South Carolina's nonviolent offenders get help instead of prison time would save the state money and allow it to lock up its most dangerous inmates for a longer time, state Attorney General Henry McMaster said Tuesday.
McMaster visited the Rotary Club of Charleston to urge its members to ask their state lawmakers to pass his No Parole-Middle Court proposal.
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King Street merchant Chip Ervin watched this week as Apple Inc. began fine-tuning its first South Carolina retail location to make its much-anticipated debut this Saturday morning.
He said the bustling scene outside the technology product maker's store at 301 King St. on Monday included about 30 college-aged workers carefully handling boxes of Apple merchandise from a FedEx delivery truck.
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HOOVER, ALA. — A year ago, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier took the dais here at the Wynfrey Hotel and boldly declared his Gamecocks ready to compete for a Southeastern Conference title. Confused looks and smirks dominated the room filled with hundreds of media types who had heard Spurrier's confidence before but never at South Carolina.
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Call them the South's delicious little secret.
Lady, Pink-Eye, Zipper and Dixie Lee are just a few of the members of a large legume family variously known as Southern peas, cowpeas or field peas. Technically, they are beans, not peas, belonging to the genus Vigna unguiculata.
"Nothing says Southern more than these field peas," declares chef Kevin Johnson of Anson in downtown Charleston. Shelled peas have a loyal following in the South but are relatively unknown elsewhere, he notes.
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