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Thursday, April 04, 2013  According to a new U.S. Census bureau report, the cost of child care has nearly doubled since the 1980s.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012  Blue Star Mothers of Coastal Carolina are hoping to bring joy to the lives of American troops overseas. The parents of soldiers are assembling care packages for the holidays.

Saturday, September 29, 2012  Lori Turner is keeping her children in the Teaching Learning Center preschool in Myrtle Beach following the arrests of the director and an employee.

Saturday, September 29, 2012  Brenda Kay Thomas, 54, turned herself in to Myrtle Beach police Saturday for failing to report child abuse or neglect.

Thursday, September 27, 2012  Mary Lynn Boggs, 46 is charged with three felony counts of Unlawful Neglect of a Child.

Friday, July 06, 2012  The Horry County child care center, Essential Child Care, closed Thursday with no explanation to parents.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012  Fire damaged a Myrtle Beach daycare Monday morning.

Friday, April 06, 2012  An employee at an Aynor daycare is facing a cruelty to children charge after police say she was caught on tape assaulting an infant with a chair.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  Woman arrested and charged with DUI after backing into a Myrtle Beach daycare center.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011  5-STAR USA, a venture capital start-up, is bringing a manufacturing campus to Marlboro County. It will provide more than 1,000 jobs over the next five years.

Thursday, March 10, 2011  Smoke Free Florence conducted a scientific poll that finds 63% of city residents support a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance that would ban smoking in public places in the city limits of Florence.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011  The unusually cold weather we had this winter prompted a Florence adult day care to start a coat drive.

Friday, January 21, 2011  A 22-year-old Spartanburg County day care worker is facing more charges of inappropriate contact with children.

Monday, January 03, 2011  Authorities say an autopsy shows a 6-week-old baby found unconscious at an overcrowded Rock Hill day care center last month died of natural causes.

Friday, September 17, 2010  Gov. Mark Sanford is signing into law a bill that requires more training for South Carolina day care operators.