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Today at 5:41 PM  Sheriff's Deputy Timothy Causey, 50, died Sunday, more than two months after he fell ill while providing security during the Windsor Green condo fire.

Today at 4:30 PM  The state inspector general says prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it.

Today at 3:15 PM  South Carolina's attorney general is soliciting calls from conservative groups that believe they were wrongfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.

Today at 12:55 PM  Gov. Nikki Haley has canceled scheduled events to spend time with her husband during a break from his deployment to Afghanistan.

Today at 7:10 AM  The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating why a passenger tumbled out of a moving car on Interstate 95 and died after landing in front of a tractor-trailer.

Yesterday at 11:05 PM  On Sunday night, Celebration Presbyterian Church held a memorial service at the Waterford Plantation neighborhood for victims of the Windsor Green condo fire that lost their pets in the fire.

Yesterday at 2:57 PM  Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a winning Powerball ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million.

Yesterday at 8:00 AM  A lawyer says a state Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for gamblers to sue for money they lose by playing illegal gambling machines.

Saturday, May 18, 2013  On the north end of the Grand Strand, the Myrtle Beach Harley Davidson Rally near the Myrtle Beach Mall may have looked like a ghost town during the middle of last week, but that's not the case this weekend.

Saturday, May 18, 2013  The Spoleto Festival USA this season will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances by 45 artists and ensembles.

Friday, May 17, 2013  South Carolina's unemployment has dropped to its lowest rate in five years.

Friday, May 17, 2013  The commission working to preserve the culture of slave descendants on the Southeast coast is holding its quarterly meeting. The Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission meets in Conway Friday.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  Two months to the day after the fire that left nearly 200 people homeless, new construction is well underway.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  An arrest has been made in a deadly crash that occurred around 7:30 Wednesday night on Prestwick Club Drive off Highway 544 in Surfside Beach.

Thursday, May 16, 2013  Republican senators from South Carolina and Georgia want the Obama administration to keep funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel.