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SC Public Radio News
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Two-time WNBA MVP and former Gamecock A’ja Wilson is getting a Nike signature shoe. The deal was announced Saturday as the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces prepared to play a preseason exhibition against the Puerto Rican national team at South Carolina.
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On Thursday, the York County Board of Zoning Appeals voted down a plan to allow a solar panel manufacturer to build a facility in Fort Mill expected to generate up to 800 jobs. The company may appeal or seek a new spot in York County.
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A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was overwhelmingly passed by both chambers of the General Assembly died on the session's final day Thursday in a procedural move by a member angry he was mocked by his colleagues.
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The 2024 regular session of the South Carolina General Assembly is ending. It will perhaps be better remembered for the things that didn’t pass.
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Haley will meet with donors to her shuttered presidential campaign. No Trump endorsement is expectedNikki Haley is meeting next week with donors who supported her now-abandoned Republican presidential campaign. A person with knowledge of her plans says the former South Carolina governor is appearing Monday and Tuesday with about 100 donors in Charleston.
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The South Carolina House ground to a halt at times Wednesday on its next-to-the-last day as members fought over rules and traded thinly veiled insults.
Latest Episodes of the SC Business Review
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Mike Switzer interviews Jason Giulietti, president and CEO of the Central SC Alliance in Columbia.
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Mike Switzer interviews Brynley Farr, founder of ByFarr Design in Columbia, S.C.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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This week we're talking with Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier, authors of Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery (2023, Hachette).Since founding the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010, Joseph McGill has been spending the night in slave dwellings throughout the South, but also the in North and in the West, where people are often surprised to learn that such structures exist. Events and gatherings arranged around these overnight stays have provided a unique way to understand the complex history of slavery. McGill and Frazier talk with us about how the project got started and about the sometimes obscured or ignored aspects of the history in the United States.
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This week we'll be talking with Richard Hatcher, author of the book, Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter and the Civil War. Construction of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor began after British forces captured and occupied Washington during the War of 1812 via a naval attack. The fort was still incomplete in 1861 when the Battle of Fort Sumter occurred, sparking the American Civil War.In writing Thunder in the Harbor, Rick Hatcher conducted the first modern study to document the fort from its origins up to its transfer to the National Park Service in 1948.
Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for May 18, 2024, we’re looking back at the 60th anniversary of racial integration of the University of South Carolina, the same week as the 70th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court; Gavin Jackson’s April 19th conversation with USC history professor Dr. Bobby Donaldson and Dr. Henrie Monteith Treadwell; and more!
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for May 14, 2024: we hear from Sen. Lindsey Graham who was on Meet The Press on Sunday to discuss weapons shipments to Israel; Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gave the commencement address to the South Carolina State University class of 2024; SC Public Radio reporter Scott Morgan brings us a report on the aftermath of that late April storm that severely damaged several homes in York County; and more!
More Local and National News
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That's what one paramedic says of the targeting of ambulance crews. Criminals are after phones and wallets along with medical equipment and drugs. We ride along with a Cape Town crew in a Red Zone.
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An Israeli airstrike killed 20 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, on Sunday, as fighting raged and Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war.
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The jawbone of a nearly 50-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in New Zealand's southernmost region has been removed. While the act is illegal, it's also considered disrespectful to the Māori people.
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President Joe Biden's national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries.
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Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk became the world's first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in 24 years by beating British fighter Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh.
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Disneyland employees in California, including those who perform as characters from Mickey Mouse to Moana, have voted to unionize. The 1,700 workers will be represented by Actors' Equity Association.
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Seize the Grey ended Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid by going wire to wire to win the Preakness, giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas his seventh victory in the race.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy is a former U.S. Army combat surgeon currently in Gaza. He said he's treating primarily civilians, rather than combatants: "mostly children, many women, many elderly."
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The handwritten restaurant napkin from the year 2000 was the starting point for an agreement between the then 13-year-old Messi and FC Barcelona.
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The ultimatum by war cabinet member Benny Gantz reflects discontent among Israel's leadership about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the Gaza war and his far-right political partners.
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