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Thursday, April 25, 2013  A group of Airmen are back home after serving overseas

Friday, March 29, 2013  Columbia's First Family invited the public out for a family fun Easter Egg event Friday.

Monday, March 18, 2013  Some parents were upset after they say police gave them misinformation during a bomb threat evacuation at Newberry High School.

Friday, March 15, 2013  Authorities say a former Orangeburg County coroner stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the funeral home he worked at for nearly 30 years.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013  An effort to put a police officer in every public school in South Carolina has hit a financial roadblock.

Monday, February 25, 2013  University of South Carolina students filmed their own version of the viral hit song and dance Harlem Shake on the Horseshoe.

Thursday, February 21, 2013  House Republicans will lay out their alternative to expanding Medicaid eligibility under the federal health care law.

Saturday, February 16, 2013  The cold temperatures and rain did not stop hundreds of people to jump into Lake Murray Saturday morning.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  The Pickens County school board is trying to decide how it can pray before meetings

Saturday, January 26, 2013  Authorities are blaming hundreds of wrecks in South Carolina's Upstate on icy weather.

Thursday, January 24, 2013  A 13-year-old boy is accused of setting fires that damaged three homes in Sumter last week.

Monday, January 21, 2013  The recent gun control controversy is not sitting well with several South Carolinians.

Tuesday, January 08, 2013  Several hundred people rallied at the Statehouse in support of a South Carolina bill that would declare the new health care law supported by President Barack Obama unconstitutional.

Saturday, January 05, 2013  The freezing temperatures Saturday did not stop many brave people from jumping into cold water.

Sunday, December 30, 2012  South Carolina residents could be forgiven in 2012 for wondering how their institutions would fail them next.