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Victoria Hansen
Reporter, ProducerVictoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
An opportunity to anchor the news for an ABC affiliate took her to Nashville, Tennessee. But summer vacations were always spent in Charleston. She moved back in 2006 to the city she calls home to anchor and report again at the tv station where she began.
Victoria has volunteered and served as a spokesperson for numerous nonprofits. She has been honored with multiple Emmys as well as a Community Service Award from the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. It is her passion for community service that brings her to South Carolina Public Radio.
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1st Congressional District candidate Michael B. Moore wants the Democratic party to find a new presidential nominee.
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Historian and preservationist Michael Allen has been tapped by a British newspaper, The Guardian, to help atone for its recently discovered role in the transatlantic slave trade.
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It once was the largest slave port in America. Its state was the first Civil War site. And it's a city that started a reparations effort, then it stopped, and now it's started again.
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The two Republican primary challengers looking to replace Congresswoman Nancy Mace say the Lowcountry deserves better, calling the incumbent’s conduct in Washington embarrassing.
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Democrats Michael Moore and Mac Deford want to replace Republican incumbent Nancy Mace in South Carolina's 1st congressional district.
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Seven young sea turtle patients are admitted to the Sea Turtle Care Center in Charleston, suffering from everything from ingested plastic to hooked flippers.
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Nikki Haley joins the Washington, D.C. based Hudson Institute, leaving her political future wide open
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Charleston Mayor William Cogswell begins to confront flooding, sea level rise and affordable housing during his first three months in office.
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The South Carolina Ports Authority announced plans Tuesday to buy the old WestRock paper mill site in North Charleston as it looks to expand port capacity. The 280-acre waterfront property sits adjacent to its North Charleston terminal.
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Family of 94-year-old Josephine Wright says they've reached a settlement in the battle to preserve their ancestral land dating back to the Civil War.