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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

• Upgrades made at Duke Energy substations to reduce copper theft

  said Monday. Duke Energy Carolinas, which provides electricity to about 2.4 million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina, also began using copper-clad wire at the substations because – unlike pure copper wire – it has no resale value. It’s also less 13 m ago from The News & Observer Read more »

• Duke offers to pay half for Sassafras Mtn observation tower

  Energy is offering to pay about half the cost of an observation tower atop South Carolina’s highest peak under a proposal to relicense dams for two mountain lakes. The company says it will spend $500,000 toward construction of the estimated $1 million tower 18 m ago from The State Read more »

• SC Senate kills last effort to expand Medicaid

  he said. “This isn’t just free money. At some point in time, we have a responsibility as adults to say, ‘This can’t go on.’” South Carolina is one of 15 states that will not expand Medicaid, according to the Advisory Board Co., a consulting firm. Twenty-six 21 m ago from The State Read more »

• National Briefing | South: South Carolina: General Faces Adultery Investigation

  The commander of the Armyâs training center at Fort Jackson, S.C., was suspended from duty Tuesday while he is investigated for adultery, Army officials announced. The officer, Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts, is facing allegations of misconduct that include a 8:44 PM from The New York Times Read more »

• Dome: Lawmakers bring back NC-SC hoops rivalry

  Carolina lawmakers will challenge their South Carolina counterparts to a game of hoops Wednesday evening at Reynolds Coliseum. The game is the first in four years between lawmakers from the two Carolinas. Rep. Burt Jones, a Rockingham Republican who will coach 8:42 PM from The News & Observer Read more »