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• SC slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display

  -- As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin.Once one of about   Read more »

• LI man with 201 DMV suspensions also scofflaw in South Carolina

  out-of-state license has also been suspended, officials said. To date, he has not been involved in a vehicular accident in South Carolina or New York, officials said.Between 1999 and 2009, Williams was stopped four times by South Carolina law enforcement officials.   Read more »

• Marcos Castro-Beltran charged with drunken driving after slamming into six cars in Brewster, sheriff says

  South Carolina motorist smacked up six cars as he drunkenly careened down Main Street in Brewster early Monday morning, Putnam County Sheriff Donald Smith said Tuesday.Marcos Castro-Beltran, 28, of Aiken, S.C., was found by a sheriff's deputy standing by his   Read more »

• 3 people removed from plane bound for Providence

  -- A Southwest Airlines flight from Orlando to Providence made an unscheduled stop in South Carolina .Southwest spokeswoman Whitney Eichinger says that flight 3814 made an emergency landing at Charleston International Airport Tuesday night after what she called   Read more »

• SC visitor spending reaches record $16.5 billion

  -- South Carolina's tourism industry has bounced back after the Great Recession with tourism spending reaching a record $16.5 billion, according to figures released Saturday by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism."We're pretty well back now,"   Read more »

Around the web

• Coach Spurrier's 5 Biggest Challenges for South Carolina in 2013

  with confidence to beat the Bulldogs for a fourth-straight year. Georgia cannot afford to lose again to South Carolina and South Carolina will look to assert true dominance over Georgia with another victory. The rivalry game is early in the year, so both teams 7:59 PM from Bleacher Report Read more »

• Thunderstorms likely Sunday night

  activity throughout the area prompted the National Weather Service to issue a hazardous weather outlook for Upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina through Sunday night. The agency forecasts “numerous to widespread showers and scattered thunderstorms” 7:51 PM from Anderson Independent-Mail Read more »

• Nadal crushes Federer

  will go to Paris on a career-best 24-match winning run. Serena was coming off consecutive titles in Miami, Charleston, South Carolina, and Madrid last week. She didn’t drop a set while winning this title. Federer had also not dropped a set all week, but he 6:48 PM from Calcutta Telegraph Read more »

• Mark Anderson wins Web.com Tour event

  and it's been a struggle this year. It really hasn't looked that great but I felt good this week. "To get this victory in South Carolina is awesome. This state has done so much for me as far as golf. The South Carolina Junior Golf Association and the South 6:31 PM from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (Georgia) Read more »

• Kiwis maintain momentum

  have maintained their momentum on the United States second-tier tour with top-15 finishes at the BMW Charity Pro-Am in South Carolina today. The Kiwis enjoyed the excellent scoring conditions at the weekend with Wilkinson climbing up the leaderboard to finish 4:49 PM from Stuff.co.nz Read more »