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Taking the Constitution Seriously
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were...
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News From Around the South, 9/1 to 9/8
SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: "This is the ultimate cold case" The Battle of Camden is...

Centuries-old bridge that linked Charleston to N.C. will close for repairs until spring
The bridge was part of a $1 million project to create commerce routes to the Charleston port After 205 years, Poinsett Bridge in South Carolina’s Upstate is getting a facelift. The historic bridge, once part of State Road extending from Charleston to North Carolina, will close between Sept. 29 and March 31 as preservationists repair its lime mortar, replace missing stones and install a...

Watch as Experts Preserve a 249-Year-Old Gunboat That Sank During the American Revolution
Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the “Philadelphia” is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...

Old granite fountains for horses, dogs and other thirsty four-leggers still stand across S.C.
GEORGETOWN — Before Paige Sawyer begins one of his walking tours, the self-described “seventh-generation South Carolina redneck” tells his...
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Taking the Constitution Seriously
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S. Afterward he said he did so because he believed that they...
Centuries-old bridge that linked Charleston to N.C. will close for repairs until spring
The bridge was part of a $1 million project to create commerce routes to the Charleston port After 205 years, Poinsett Bridge in South Carolina’s Upstate is getting a facelift. The historic bridge, once part of State Road extending from Charleston to North Carolina,...
Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson and Truman
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn't appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a...
News From Around the South, 9/1 to 9/8
SOUTH CAROLINA: Experts work to ID remains of Revolutionary War soldiers found in woods: "This is the ultimate cold case" The Battle of Camden is mentioned in history books and even films like "The Patriot," but the precise location of much of the fighting remained...
Jury Nullification
Jury nullification is a fancy term for what it's called when juries — or, in this case, grand juries — say no. It doesn't happen very often, which is why you may have never heard of it. The old line is that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham...