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Wednesday, January 16, 2013  Fire has destroyed the home of a Charleston firefighter who died with eight others in a furniture store blaze almost six years ago.

Tuesday, May 01, 2012  Some Midlands high school students showcasing their artistic abilities at a scholarship luncheon hosted by local gospel radio station WFMV. The Portrait of Hope Art Gallery is a new addition to the Future Leader Scholarship Initiative that the gospel station established.

Friday, August 12, 2011  Portraits of Navy SEALs killed in helicopter crash

Friday, April 22, 2011  Kirkland Smith says she sifts through bags of trash and uses old action figures, plastic tops and discarded toys to create portraits.

Monday, July 05, 2010  A portrait of the last royal governor of South Carolina by noted landscape and portrait artist Thomas Gainsborough is expected to bring as much as $450,000 at a London auction.

Sunday, February 15, 2009  A double portrait of Presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln faces the prospect of being eaten away -- not by the ravages of time, but by visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington .