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On Tuesday, Anderson County joined Pickens County in adding seats to the Library Board. Some advocates say adding more voices is a way to censor materials. County officials say there is no political motive.
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The county plans to allot more than $418,000 to a suite of drug education and treatment programs.
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No one has become seriously ill as of Tuesday, but volunteers and visitors will be kept out for the rest of the week.
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A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison. A lawyer for now-21-year-old Jesse Osborne says that would give Osborne some hope of freedom in 50s or 60s and a reason to rehabilitate himself. But five witnesses on Monday asked the judge to keep the life sentence for the 2016 shooting at Townville Elementary.
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An out-of-date jail and siloed thinking are giving way to holistic attention on the mental health of those who pass through the county's criminal justice system.
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Hundreds of war refugees pour into a railway station in Bucharest. The 'lucky' ones make it to Mexico and, eventually, the US. A 23-year-old volunteer tells what she encountered.
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Adoption Supervisor Randi Leigh Ashley was sitting at the front desk, in shock, the first year that third-grader Braxton Louch walked in lugging bags of food with his family."I did not expect this from a 9-year-old," said Ashley, who's worked at PAWS for 13 years. "He was one of the first kids at the time to do something of this magnitude."Now half of a lifetime later, Louch is the agency's largest private donor.