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SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans
Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...
Adopted Russian orphan triumphs over challenges
Sophie snaps her fingers and, with her classmates, bounces, twirls and kicks to the tune of West Side Story's "America" blaring through the dance studio sound system. The 10-year-old, adopted from Russia by U.S. parents nearly nine years ago, is a bright-eyed, carefree fourth-grader who wakes up with a song ...
Shuttered Hastings ethanol plant closing permanent
A Hastings ethanol plant that announced in February that it would temporarily shut down will not reopen. The Ag Processing Inc. cooperative said Friday that it is permanently shutting down the 55-million-gallon-a-year plant, citing the plant's age and high utility costs associated with running it. Officials had cited a slowdown ...
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo. They ...
Salmonella outbreak from NC hotel sickens 51
Health officials are worried cases from a salmonella outbreak traced to a Fayetteville hotel may spread nationwide. Already, 51 people who ate since May 1 at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux's banquet facilities along with its cafe and sports bar have been sickened with five of them becoming ill enough to ...
Raleigh holds annual backyard chicken coops tour
Chicken connoisseurs in North Carolina's capital city are holding their annual tour of backyard pens, part of a national movement of backyard poultry farming. Raleigh holds its ninth annual Tour D' Coop event on Saturday. The one-day tour of chicken coops and urban farms collects food and money for Urban ...
Venturi, US Open champion and CBS analyst, dies
Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for ...
Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low
Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news. Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the recent low of $1,352 it reached ...
Gold prices sink for seventh day, near April low
Gold prices fell for a seventh day in a row on Friday, drawn down by a stronger U.S. dollar and better economic news. Gold for June delivery dropped 1.6 percent, losing $22.20 to settle at $1,364.70 an ounce. The precious metal is nearing the recent low of $1,352 it reached ...
Orb favored to take Preakness, set up Triple try
Everything's a go for Orb. The Kentucky Derby winner was in a playful mood the day before the Preakness, making faces for photographers between nibbles of grass outside his stall at Pimlico Race Course. "He's really settled in well. He seems to be energetic about what he's doing so I ...
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