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News for the Carolinas
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Construction on new U.S. homes in March hit the highest rate in almost five years, according to Department of Commerce data.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Six months after a hacker stole the personal data of millions of South Carolina taxpayers, legislators are moving past finger-pointing hearings on who to blame and focusing on how to prevent another massive breach.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
South Carolina could soon share more data with the federal government to prevent the sale of guns to the mentally ill. The bill to that effect is expected to be introduced by two lawmakers Tuesday.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
The S.C. Department of Revenue's deputy director acknowledges his agency was notified in August of a computer security breach, but the response clearly wasn't adequate since a hacker stole millions of taxpayers' personal data a month later.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
The City of Florence Department of Community Services conducted a review on fair housing impediments in the city. The Department's Director, Scotty Davis, says the review found possible impediments with unequal access to mortgage financing from some Florence lending institutions, as well as a low number of loans available to African-Americans and disparities in property insurance coverage.
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
South Carolina's running tab for handling the hacking of millions of taxpayers' personal data is approaching $20 million. So far, officials are giving no indications of how they'll pay for it.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
The hacker who reportedly accessed millions of South Carolina tax returns apparently breached state databases via two different paths.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
A six-year long study along the Waccamaw River show some areas with high level of pollutants and low-oxygen.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
South Carolina's unemployment agency is yanking benefits from thousands of people who are not searching for work through its online database.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
A national DNA database is turning the tide on cold cases.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
A loophole in South Carolina's immigration law exempts farmworkers and private maids and nannies from a mandatory immigration status check.
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
New laws going on the books in South Carolina will limit awards in lawsuits and require employers to check a federal database to see if the people they hire are in the country legally.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Starting Sunday, pharmacies will be required to enter customers into a national database when they want to buy cold medicine that contains pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in making methamphetamine.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Dillon police are looking for a man who impersonated a Dillon County Sheriff's deputy and made off with a motorcycle.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
The traditional family of a husband, wife and their kids isn't as common in South Carolina as it used to be.
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