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Dog attacks on letter carriers unusually high this year

By Ivory Hecker Yesterday at 10:58 PM

What is it about mail carriers that gets dogs so riled up? The number of postal workers bitten by dogs so far this year in the state is inching very close to the total number of attacks last year.

Yesterday at 2:15 PM | 1 comment

Richland County funds major apartment renovations in the northeast

Yesterday at 11:08 PM

South Carolina's Candice Glover crowned American Idol

Yesterday at 3:55 PM | 2 comments

Powerball jackpot reaches $550 million, second highest ever

Thursday, May 16, 2013 | 5 comments

Police training at Hammond on Friday

Yesterday at 8:08 AM

USC evens series on Greiner's extra-innings blast

Yesterday at 11:25 PM


	Local & State Stories Former Brookland-Cayce football coach dies from cancer By Zoheb Hassanali Yesterday at 6:32 PM Former Brookland-Cayce Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Abby Bray passed away Thursday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Shaw AFB opens first nursing center in South Carolina Yesterday at 5:52 PM SC unemployment falls to lowest rate in 5 years Yesterday at 1:40 PM \| 1 comment Meeting of four-state Gullah-Geechee panel set Yesterday at 1:35 PM \| 1 comment SC Guard trains across state in disaster response Yesterday at 9:05 AM Vets from World War II carrier hold final reunion Yesterday at 9:00 AM


	National & World Stories Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed-teen pic Yesterday at 8:35 AM Australian politician sorry he accidentally 'liked' Facebook photo of prankster exposing self How Candice Glover won 'American Idol' Yesterday at 8:05 AM Organic industry clout grows with consumer demand Yesterday at 3:50 AM Bieber will have to pay for German monkey business Yesterday at 5:25 AM Video: Florida man secretly gives girlfriend abortion pill WPIX New York Video: California man charged after police discover 'bomb factory' in his home KTLA Los Angeles

Reader Comments

Powerball jackpot reaches $550 million, second highest ever

I don't play often, but ill buy a few tickets for this amount?

- Reggie Cornell

Sheriff: Victim in Union stabbing wasn't target

This is sad this man who lost his life over nothing is the cousin of one of my students, keeping his family n my prayrers

- Tia 'Princess'Gaines

Medical Examiner's testimony challenges Brett Parker's self-defense claim

Think it's way past time to tell the truth and pull the plug on excuses.

- Judy Odom


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