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Monday, June 25, 2012  A Chapin man drowned in Lake Murray Saturday evening.

Monday, January 30, 2012  Orangeburg Deputies seek woman as murder accessory

Monday, February 14, 2011  Manager Steve Duncan said White died at Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg on Sunday at age 89.

Friday, February 11, 2011  Morris was convicted for his role in one of the largest bankruptcies in state history. He was chairman of Carolina Investors when the company failed in 2003. Eight thousand investors lost $275 million.

Thursday, December 30, 2010  Roger Milliken, who led Milliken & Company for 71 years, during which it grew to become the world’s largest privately owned textile and chemical manufacturer, died Thursday in Spartanburg at the age of 95, according to a news release.

Monday, September 13, 2010  Representative Bill Wylie, a Republican from Simpsonville, suffered a massive heart attack while on vacation in Wyoming.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010  Lori Unumb said her brother died on Wednesday at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, two years after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor.

Friday, July 23, 2010  Veteran reporter and commentator Daniel Schorr, whose hard-hitting reporting for CBS got him on President Richard Nixon's notorious "enemies list" in the 1970s, has died. He was 93.

Monday, May 10, 2010  A former mayor in one of South Carolina's largest cities has died. Former Rock Hill Mayor John Hardin was 89 when he died Monday.

Monday, March 15, 2010  Greene Funeral Home of Rock Hill confirmed that Robbins died Thursday at his home on the Catawba Indian Reservation east of Rock Hill.

Thursday, January 14, 2010  R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009  President John F. Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died Tuesday morning surrounded by family at a Hyannis hospital. She was 88.

Monday, July 06, 2009  A published report says former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has died.

Thursday, June 25, 2009  LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world's most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009  Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, a revered historian of life in the South and the African-American experience, has died. He was 94.