MEG KINNARD

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Officials call off search for missing SC toddler

The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving is pregnant and mentally ill and should be released from jail because she needs medical care, the woman's attorney argued in court papers filed this week.

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Mom of missing SC boy faces prostitution charges

The mother of a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving was arrested in Georgia and accused of prostitution shortly before her son disappeared, according to police records.

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Bloody clothes found as police seek missing SC boy

Police looking for a South Carolina toddler missing since Thanksgiving have found a shovel and what appear to be bloody clothes and blankets in his mother's Columbia home and in her car, according to search warrants.

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Judge: Black church rightful owner of KKK store

After a lengthy legal battle between a black South Carolina church and members of the Ku Klux Klan, a judge has ruled that the church owns a building where KKK robes and T-shirts are sold.

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SC company sues ex-worker over Twitter followers

An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.

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Proposed bill would ban cheery SC greeting mandate

Two South Carolina legislators say state employees shouldn't have to answer the phone with Gov. Nikki Haley's mandated cheery greeting unless it's truly a great day in South Carolina.

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SC voter ID law rejected by Justice Department

The Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina's law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. It was the first voter ID law to be refused by the federal agency in nearly 20 years.

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Federal judge halts key parts of SC immigrant law

A federal judge on Thursday blocked several provisions of South Carolina's tough new immigration law from taking effect New Year's Day, including a requirement for law officers to check the immigration status of people they pull over if officers suspect they are in the country illegally.

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Colbert offering $500K to pay for SC GOP primary

Comedian Stephen Colbert is offering to pay half a million dollars to help subsidize South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, as state officials struggle to pay for it, but there's doubt whether it would even be legal.

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Colbert tried to sponsor SC presidential primary

Comedian Stephen Colbert tried yet again to get his name on South Carolina's presidential primary ballot — only this time he wanted to sponsor the Republican contest.

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Occupy Columbia protesters sue SC Gov. Haley

Seven Occupy Columbia protesters arrested last week for refusing to leave the South Carolina Statehouse grounds have sued Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and state public safety officials, saying their First Amendment rights were trampled.

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Giant mound of tires in SC visible from space

The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands of tires isn't easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tires got there, or when.

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Justice Dept. sues over SC's new immigration law

The federal government is suing South Carolina to put a stop to the state's tough new immigration law.

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DeMint chronicles rise of tea party in new book

As the Republican campaign to replace President Barack Obama heats up in early voting states like South Carolina, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint is releasing a book discussing the roots of the tea party crusade and his hopes for the movement in 2012.

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Huntsman visiting SC day after launching 2012 bid

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman planned to visit early-voting South Carolina Wednesday to file his paperwork for the state's first-in-the-South Republican primary a day after formally launching his presidential campaign.

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In SC, Huntsman says Obama needed in union fight

In his first trip to early-voting South Carolina since launching his presidential campaign, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman did the governor's bidding and demanded Wednesday that President Barack Obama end a lawsuit by a federal labor agency in a dispute over a Boeing plant being built in South Carolina.

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Labor board lawyer: Boeing suit helps all workers

The top lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board told a congressional committee Friday that while an NLRB complaint against Boeing Co. may make South Carolina workers feel vulnerable and anxious, the legal action is aimed at protecting the rights of workers everywhere.

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Former SC candidate Greene enters pretrial program

Former U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was officially enrolled Friday in a pretrial intervention program that will drop a misdemeanor obscenity charge against him if he completes community service and counseling.

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Hearing begins in labor complaint against Boeing

Boeing on Tuesday asked a judge in Seattle to dismiss a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board that accuses the plane maker of breaking the law when it built a non-union production line in South Carolina.

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AP Enterprise: SC ride inspector issued 1 citation

A South Carolina inspector fired after he falsified a report about a children's train ride that crashed, killing a 6-year-old boy, issued only one violation in more than three years of examining amusement park rides, according to an Associated Press review of state records.

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Ex-SC deputy gets 5 years in civil rights case

A former South Carolina sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for violating an inmate's civil rights when he broke the man's leg in an attack caught on jailhouse surveillance cameras.

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SC teen charged with killing mom on Mother's Day

A high school sophomore in South Carolina shot his mother to death and critically injured his brother after a family argument on Mother's Day, police said Monday.

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Wal-Mart announces jobs, $400M for South Carolina

Wal-Mart says it is bringing 4,000 new jobs and $400 million in investments to South Carolina over the next five years.

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NC teacher faces sex charges after student essay

A former high school band teacher in North Carolina was arrested on sex charges after a young woman wrote in an essay in her college newspaper that he got her pregnant — and took her to get an abortion — when she was his student.

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DOJ wants in suit on SC jail's Bible-only policy

The U.S. Justice Department believes a South Carolina jail is violating inmates' free speech rights by barring them from any reading material other than the Bible

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