February 20, 2008
Sumter County, S.C. fire officials are investigating the origin of a church fire that caused about $300,000 in damages and destroyed the sanctuary. No foul play is suspected. Sumter Fire Captain Brian Horton said the fire Sunday morning at the …
February 19, 2008
U.S. Senate and House committees are planning hearings on worker safety in the poultry industry following a report by The Charlotte Observer on House of Raeford, congressional leaders and aides said. “All Americans should be horrified at the conditions reported …
February 19, 2008
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced that Washington will receive nearly $1.7 million as part of a $41 million settlement between 29 states and Caremark Rx, LLC, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits management companies. As part of …
February 15, 2008
In a written statement Tuesday, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford reacted to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s refusal to strip harmful amendments from the DUI bill: “We knew going in that some on this Senate subcommittee wanted a weaker DUI, but …
February 15, 2008
The House of Raeford boasts that its plant in Greenville, S.C., has gone more than 7 million hours without having a worker miss an entire shift because of injury. But the North Carolina-based company has met that mark by bringing …
February 14, 2008
A blaze that destroyed several homes in South Carolina and led to the evacuation of 60 others started as a trash fire that was initially doused by two fire agencies, but reignited a day later into a wind-whipped 240-acre wildfire, …
February 12, 2008
Wind-whipped wildfires chased churchgoers from worship, forced hundreds of residents to flee homes and closed highways across the rain-starved Carolinas and Virginia on Sunday. Twelve small structures, including at least one business and an unknown number of homes and sheds, …
February 11, 2008
Phoenix-based MiniCo Inc. reported it signed an agreement with Boulder, Colo.-based International Catastrophe Insurance Managers LLC (ICAT), to begin offering property and wind coverage for coastal locations in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Delaware, New Hampshire and …
February 10, 2008
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February 10, 2008
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