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Monday, April 08, 2013  Airline passenger complaints are surging as airlines continue to cram more seats into the same tube.

Saturday, April 06, 2013  On Saturday, deputies are scheduled to be at the Five Points Food Lion to demonstrate the right way to install car seats.

Monday, February 11, 2013  A former executive director of the U.S. House Democratic Caucus wants to be the new director of the South Carolina Democratic Party.

Tuesday, October 02, 2012  In the past week, rows of seats have come loose on three separate flights, two of which made emergency landings.

Monday, October 01, 2012  South Carolina's redrawn state house and congressional maps are being allowed to stand.

Monday, September 03, 2012  College students from across North Carolina will arrive in Charlotte by the busload. Same with members of predominantly black churches in neighboring South Carolina.

Wednesday, July 04, 2012  Fort Jackson is fired up for its annual Independence Day celebration that will honor men and women in the armed forces from the Vietnam era.

Monday, May 07, 2012  The removal of 55 candidates seeking legislative office from the June ballot leaves 20 additional House and Senate seats without a primary contest. That includes several seats with no Democrat or Republican left.

Thursday, April 05, 2012  Anderson police said a 2-year-old girl opened the door of a car while it was moving Wednesday evening and fell out of the car.

Monday, March 19, 2012  Six black South Carolina voters want the nation's highest court to hear their case over the state's new congressional and state House districts.

Friday, March 09, 2012  Three federal judges have ruled the new district lines drawn by South Carolina lawmakers for state House and U.S. House seats don't discriminate against black voters.

Friday, March 09, 2012  Parents carry their children in the car around town but are they strapped in properly?  New officers with the Columbia Police Department offered checks and help to parents installing their child safety seats.

Monday, June 20, 2011  A bus full of more than 60 Tea Party Members and republicans from the Grand Strand and Pee Dee are heading to Columbia, SC Monday. Their mission: to clearly tell their state senators their displeasure with the senate's current districting plan.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011  Lexington tea party activist Talbert Black said during a State House news conference Tuesday that lawmakers need to cut spending the same way families have cut back during the recession.  State senators resumed debate on the budget after the activists spoke.

Thursday, January 27, 2011  A California mother says she was forced off a United Airlines flight in a dispute over a seat row too narrow to accommodate an infant carrier.