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West Columbia and Lexington show they are serious about cocaine and seize 8.5 ounces and $18,600.

A man who isn’t satisfied with free darts, free shuffleboard, and free MLB baseball package is suspected of stealing Uncle Louie’s cash register in off hours and is now in custody. No word on how many $1 Natty Lights it will take to bail this douchebag out.

Colleton County man convicted of dog fighting

Four states are investigating an incident in which players at a South Carolina softball tournament may have been exposed to a rabid kitten.

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives on Wednesday, July 25 charged a 48-year-old Lexington man with three counts of second-degree arson

Father sentenced for sex with daughter

Bush still campaigning and lying in South Carolina

Councilwoman Anne Sinclair leads charge against bottled water

Environmental groups take on Santee Cooper’s new coal plant proposal in the Pee Dee

By Corey Hutchins

The legal case for impeachment of President Bush and his ruling cabal

By Ismail Lagardien

War Is Boring Unfair system Ravenel Sicko

The continued assault on Five Points small businesses

By Paul Blake

A Central European’s perspective on Hungary’s health care system vs. the United States’

Former Gamecock diver trains for the 2008 Olympics

Cops on the Front Lines

Where have all the kind nerds gone?

Of course you can have my eternal soul in exchange for a new iPhone…

Changes may create more fairness in prosecution system

The Golden Curse of Caveman Org: A Very Brief History of Economics

While cleaning out his cop car an officer finds a bag of weed. Plead the 5th, copper, plead the 5th; 4000 block Ensor Ave.

Waring Howe leads state Dems in right direction

Ode to a Sidewalk, Paean to a Trashcan

Provided by the Conservation Voters of South Carolina (CVSC)

As a legislative watchdog, CVSC works in concert with South Carolina’s conservation community to identify and highlight important bills impacting local air and water quality, wildlife, natural areas and public health.

Meet Lyon Forrest Hill, art director for the Columbia Marionette Theater

As Usual, Pakistan About to Explode

By Sean Rayford

Should I stay? Should I go?

After a frustrating legislative session with more fireworks between lawmakers and the governor, politicos across the state are starting to look at the next gubernatorial election.

According to two current employees at The State newspaper, the company plans to cut back its design staff in order to outsource the work, presumably through another McClatchy-owned newspaper.

We first reported on local personality Kipp Shives purchasing a virtual shopping mall on June 20.

Stories on online currencies hit the main stream press shortly after Professor Edward Castronova, Ph.D. wrote “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier.”

The paper focuses on Norrath, a fictional planet in the EverQuest universe. A portion of the work appears below.

Go see local music….

Organic farms vie for seat at America’s table

S.C. Democratic Party to send gay delegates to national convention

Five members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) were detained at Fort Jackson on June 29th.

S.C. State House report

The no khaki diet

Recent study proves it might actually work

Should I Stay? Should I Go?

Live Free or Die Hard and SiCKO Plus, Transformers in brief

USC to build new baseball field in Granby Mill Village

Sen. DeMint plays politics with religion and military

The featured angels are people from the streets, many times from ghettos, or as Geter calls them “ghetto angels.”

Results from the unofficial Wii Sports Invitational

After repression, China uses cash to woo Muslims

What Rhymes with $100 million?

Editorial duty in a post-9/11 world

By Corey Hutchins

Hey, Scooter! You did about as much time as Paris…

Life in the high tree canopy and mourning the loss of Liz Claiborne

When Ann Coulter appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball” recently, she was taken by surprise when Chris Matthews took a call from a woman in South Carolina.

By Michelle Dresbold, The Handwriting Doctor

Howard, who grew up in Newberry and went to high school there, says he became homeless because he “got careless.”

“I forgot about myself, ” is how he puts it. “I did everything for everybody and forgot about myself. That’s all it is. That’s what got me homeless. When I got down I couldn’t get back up.”