Two Columbia residents have filed to run for the city council seat recently vacated by long time councilman, E. W. Cromartie. Monday was the official first day of filing. In the running, as of late Monday afternoon, are Antonio Williams and Brian DeQuincey Newman. Another person who has plans to file Tuesday, is Harold ‘Puff’ Howard.
To hear from the candidates, click on the Video Player icon under the News section. Monique Williams reports....
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South Carolina ranks second lowest in the percentage of people who fill out and return the census form. The 58 percent response rate, beating only Alaska (56%) is 9 percentage points below the national average. It also means more federal tax dollars are required here to pay census workers to go door to door to get census information from households that did not respond. Overall, $14 billion has been earmarked for the 2010 census....
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The city of Columbia has been sued over the election to fill former city councilman E.W. Cromartie's seat. Paul Denman, a District II resident, filed the lawsuit, asking a judge to postpone the District II election, set for April 6.Denman's attorney, Jay Bender, says Denman was going to run for city council, but he did not think he has enough time to campaign, nor does he think voters have enough time to examine candidates. Bender...
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Monday, South Carolina lawmakers approved a plan to use almost two hundred million dollars in federal bailout cash to prevent cuts to health care. House Democrats say they want to use the federal Medicaid money to eliminate planned cuts to the Department of Disabilities and other health care areas. Legislators worry down the road they may have to cut spending by an additional one billion dollars....
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The census bureau is trying to reach every household by mail. The ten-question form will begin arriving in mailboxes this week. Census officials ask everyone to fill out the form and send it back, in the stamped envelope provided. Failing to do so, will trigger a census worker, knocking on your door....
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(AP) _ South Carolina's budget debate this week can put legislators in a bind as they use federal bailout money to preserve health services to the state disabled, poor and elderly and consider raising the state's cigarette tax. The $5 billion budget up for debate Monday in the House is $2
billion less than it was a couple of years ago before the Great Recession. And it will be a bitter dose for Republicans already facing...
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(AP) _ Catawba Indian potter and South Carolina native Earl Robbins who created hundreds of pieces that are in museums around the world has died. He was 87. Greene Funeral Home of Rock Hill confirmed that Robbins died Thursday at his home on the Catawba Indian Reservation east of Rock Hill. No cause of death was given, but Robbins' daughter told The Herald of Rock Hill that her father had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and...
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WILLIAMSTON, S.C. (AP) _ A stable owner says three quarterhorses are dead following a lightning strike during a thunderstorm. Lisa Cromer told multiple media outlets that she was puttinghorses in the barn Friday afternoon at her Welcome Ranch when shesaw and felt the lightning strike about 100 yards away. Cromer says the force of the strike threw her away from thestable door and she saw three horses that had been standing in thepasture fall over. ...
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