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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA -- The S.C. House of Representatives on Wednesday concurred with Senate amendments to a Jasper County port bill sponsored by House Speaker Bobby Harrell, R-Charleston, and has sent the bill on to Gov. Mark Sanford for his signature.
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Three guitars purchased by Al Parish may have once belonged to late rock icon Jimi Hendrix, according to an attorney working with the court-appointed receiver in the economist’s investment fraud case.
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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DILLON. -- Unifi Inc. today announced it will be shutting its recently acquired Dillon facility. The company currently operates 42 texturing machines at the facility.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
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A McCain presidency would strengthen the economy, bolster small business and create jobs, according to a prominent Republican who was the first elected official to publicly predict George W. Bush would win the White House in 2000.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA — South Carolina is a step closer to becoming the first state in the nation to create a statewide wireless broadband network.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
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MYRTLE BEACH -- Retirement Living TV, the first cable network created for people aged 55 and over, will host South Carolina's Statewide "Call to Action" Leadership Summit on Aging Friday at the Grand Strand Senior Center in Myrtle Beach.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- Investigators trying to unravel where investors’ money entrusted to former Charleston Southern University economist Al Parish actually went are continuing to make surprising discoveries.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- A year removed from his cabinet position in the Bush administration, Norman Y. Mineta still feels frustrated that he couldn’t do more to alleviate traffic congestion on the East and West Coasts as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bank of America Corp. is purchasing ABN AMRO North America Holding Co., parent of LaSalle Bank Corp. and its subsidiaries. The combination of LaSalle and Bank of America creates a leading banking franchise in metropolitan Chicago and in Michigan. Charlotte-based Bank of America will pay $21 billion in cash to ABN AMRO.
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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South Carolina residents can vote for their favorite business idea as part of the New Ideas for a New Carolina competition. Voting is open for the top 10 "Wild Card" ideas.
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA -- A Columbia resident has concocted a new of mustard-style barbecue sauce and is now selling it in specialty retail stores around the state.
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA -- Branch Banking and Trust Corp. and the S.C. Department of Commerce announced a new community economic development support corporation, the S.C. Community Development Intermediary. The SC-CDI was chartered earlier this year and will begin operation immediately. It will support growth, enhance development and increase the capacity of community development corporations.
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
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When it comes to financial services, green is golden, as a recent surge in banks looking for green industries gains prominence across the country.
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- U.S. District Judge David C. Norton has granted a SEC request to partially lift the stay he placed on further lawsuits relating to the Al Parish fraud case.
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Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA — USDA Rural Development State Director Tee Miller announced that South Carolina received more than $2.8 million to assist rural communities and businesses.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA -- South Carolina may soon join the 40 other states that have implemented at least partial public smoking bans. A Senate committee overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday that bans smoking in all restaurants statewide, but allows it in some bars with a special permit.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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CHARLESTON -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the federal judge presiding over the Al Parish investment fraud case to lift his stay on additional litigation on the matter to allow for a legal filing by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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NORTH CHARLESTON -- To many who pass by it each day as they drive on Interstate 526 and the Don Holt Bridge, MeadWestvaco’s North Charleston mill, with its belching smokestacks and hard, industrial façade, is the very picture of the industrialization that once defined the neck region and left it with a legacy of pollution and environmental remediation.
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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 |
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COLUMBIA — As part of its efforts to encourage microenterprise development in underserved rural areas of the state, the S.C. Women’s Business Center has formed a new umbrella entity called the S.C. Community Enterprise Center.
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
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Vivian A. Wong, co-founder and chairwoman of the Pacific Gateway
Capital LLC, has been named the 2007 Woman of the Year by Charleston
Women in International Trade.
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