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Thursday, May 02, 2013  The Historic Columbia Foundation hosted their annual Historic Preservation Awards at City Art in the Vista.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013  Columbia native and former FBI Analyst Larry Sypolt has officially announced his candidacy for Mayor.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  City leaders have voted to save the Palmetto Compress Warehouse in a 7 to 1 vote Tuesday.

Wednesday, February 06, 2013  The founder of the Slave Dwelling Project is scheduled to give an update on his three-year effort to preserve old slave dwellings around the nation.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  A federal judge is allowing the South Carolina State Ports Authority to take part in a lawsuit challenging its plans to build a $35 million cruise terminal in Charleston.

Monday, January 07, 2013  A state judge is suggesting that while Charleston's year-round cruise industry does not violate city zoning ordinances and state pollution laws, those challenging the ships may be able to show they are a public nuisance.

Thursday, October 04, 2012  A judge has ruled a federal court challenge to South Carolina's planned $35 million cruise ship terminal should be heard in Charleston, not Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012  State regulators have scheduled a public hearing on one of the more heated issues in Charleston - the year-round cruise industry.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012  A new historical marker was placed in front of Benedict College.

Monday, June 13, 2011  Several environmental groups are suing Carnival cruise lines over its service to Charleston.  The complaint filed in state court Monday by the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League alleges that the company does not comply with city regulations on hotel locations. The complaint says the line's Carnival Fantasy docks in an area where no hotels are allowed.

Monday, May 16, 2011  The ongoing debate over cruise liners docking in Charleston is reaching well beyond the city's historic waterfront.  The National Trust for Historic Preservation expects to decide this week whether to include Charleston on its list of the nation's 11 most endangered historic places.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011  Former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young spoke Tuesday at the Benjamin E. Mays Historic Preservation Site at Mays' childhood home in the Epworth community. Young said that without Mays, there would be no Martin Luther King Jr. and no Andrew Young.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011  A museum dedicated to the life of a Greenwood native often referred to as the father of the civil rights movement is opening.

Saturday, March 12, 2011  The effort by a Charleston historian to save slave cabins around the South is entering its second year.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010  A city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site, freeing a group to convert the property into an Islamic community center and mosque that has drawn national opposition.