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Wednesday, March 13, 2013  The Catholic church has chosen a new pope -- Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio. Bergoglio will go by the name Pope Francis

Wednesday, March 13, 2013  More black smoke points to divisions among cardinals over who should be next pope

Wednesday, January 09, 2013  South Carolina's highest court has ruled that police did not violate the constitutional rights of a man they stopped on suspicion of dealing drugs.

Wednesday, December 05, 2012  Charleston area residents are divided on plans to extend Interstate 526 to Johns Island and James Island.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012  Senate Democrats divided over cuts to benefit programs, raising roadblock to any fiscal deal

Friday, October 05, 2012  A court ruling sending a Native American girl back to Oklahoma from her adoptive South Carolina family has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Thursday, June 28, 2012  The Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the individual insurance requirement of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act has South Carolina leaders torn.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010  Judge rules as gays, Pentagon divide over quick or slow end to 'don't ask, don't tell' policy

Friday, August 20, 2010  The conflict is dividing a group that in many ways has never been united, with some saying the cultural center would reopen old wounds too close to hallowed ground and others say that opposing it is tantamount to bigotry.