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7 youths get prison

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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No-parole plan urged

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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Apple readies King St. store

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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A censored Ball Coach this time?

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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Peas, please

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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GOP calm as storm clouds gather
SUMMERVILLE — Normally, you can't stop people from talking about politics around here. It dominates conversations in restaurants, downtown stores and barbershops — at least until the primary is over. That's because the debate in this GOP-dominated county is mostly over which Republican they like. But this year one race is not so clear-cut, and it threatens to divide the normally unified Republican Party and extend the bickering into the fall. And that has many folks keeping their opinions to themselves, for now.
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Just relax, the beach is back
ISLE OF PALMS — The beach is so wide now the blue umbrellas look tiny. The Ocean Club condos are so far across the hot sand that barefoot young bathers hop like mad. Three months ago, high tides would swamp the sandbags girdling that Wild Dunes vacation resort and pour in among the pilings underneath. Waves broke below the balconies. The beach seemed nonexistent.
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Council members clash over vote on issue that wasn't on agenda
SUMMERVILLE — Dorchester County Council disregarded the state's open-government laws again Monday by voting on a controversial issue that was not on the printed agenda, the chairman says.
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