COLUMBIA — Gov. Mark Sanford called on South Carolinians Monday to let their federal elected officials know where they stand on bailout plans.
The Republican governor criticized the way Congress has handled oversight of the recently passed bailout bill and other decisions to inject government money into the economy. Sanford said it people who play by [...]
1. Only Charleston has had earthquakes in South Carolina.
2. The best thing to do when you are in a vehicle during an earthquake is stop your vehicle in a clear area.
3. Earthquakes in South Carolina only occur in the summer.
4. Scientists use magnitude and intensity to measure the size
of earthquakes.
5. Securing items overhead in your [...]
The Poplar Grove Pedal Tour will be held Nov. 16 in the neighborhood off Davison Road - West of the Ashley. Lunch will be at 1 p.m. and the biking 2-4 p.m.
A commercial development described as the largest in the state’s history is coming to North Charleston, according to a news release from Mayor Keith Summey’s office Monday morning.
The joint venture between The Weiser Companies and Weber USA is supposed to be triple the size of the Centre Pointe Development; the mayor’s office said that development [...]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina health officials have approved an energy company’s request to increase the amount of coal that passes through Charleston.
The state Department of Health and Environmental Control announced on Friday it had approved the request from Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.
The Post & Courier of Charleston reports that the approval came after [...]
Wall Street struggles after Morning advance on AIG’s new Bailout terms. GM and Ford continue to slump.
Stocks cut gains Monday, after an early rally sparked by the government’s revamp of its AIG bailout and news that China has initiated a $586 billion stimulus plan.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost a few points 2-1/2 hours [...]
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, better known as MGM, will be the first major movie studio to post full-length feature films on YouTube, the company announced Sunday.
CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was preparing to launch a feature-film service after spending months smoothing over fractured relationships in Hollywood.
MGM will likely not be the last studio to [...]
A new study details how spammers – the bane of our email inboxes – still make pots of money, despite only receiving a response to one in every 12,500,000 emails they spam out.
The study, by a team of seven computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) infiltrated the Storm network, [...]
Fed restructures loan and creates 2 programs to rescue insurance giant from bad bets. Treasury buys $40 billion in shares. AIG quarterly loss: $25 billion.
Troubled insurer American International Group got a reworked $152.5 billion deal from the federal government Monday, as the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department made significant changes to the terms of the [...]
These BlackBerry tips will help you work easier, better and faster.
Delete Multiple Messages: Search for messages, then press Delete Prior to delete all of the messages in the results.
Read “A Wired-In Guy Getting Set for a Big Date”: Stick your wet BlackBerry, or any other doomed device, (turned off) in a bowl of uncooked rice [...]
