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  South Carolina center stage in early 2016 talk

  Mere months after the 2012 election, South Carolina is a buzz of political activity with a slate of potential presidential candidates already looking ... 

• Proposed SC budget says no junk food for governor

  Lawmakers in South Carolina are trying to keep junk food out of the governor's mansion. State senators inserted a clause in the 2013-14 budget plan ... 

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  Mom of 4 kids killed in SC fire faces more charges

  The mother of four South Carolina children killed in an accidental mobile home fire was charged Friday in their deaths, authorities said. 

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  USDA expanding program to fight rural poverty

  A federal program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding is expanding to six states, ... 

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  Do gays need a church of their own anymore?

  On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister's robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different ... 

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  Ex-SC Gov Sanford eyes politics again after affair

  When Mark Sanford walked out of the governor's mansion in 2011, he had been censured by the Legislature over state travel expenses he used for an ... 

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  Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts

  Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the ... 

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  Feds to probe why alarms failed in W.Va. explosion

  Federal investigators are looking into why no alarms sounded as a massive natural gas explosion sent flames as high as hilltops, engulfing homes and ...