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Graham Gets Another Six Years
2020-11-05 04:21:49 UTC
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Lindsey Graham, who was sent to the U.S. Senate in 2002, was re-elected to serve his fourth term by the people of South Carolina on Tuesday. Graham had been in a heated race with Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison.
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Election Finish Line
2020-11-05 04:05:23 UTC
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Election day. It starts way too early and ends way too late. And depending on your politics, by the time the night is over you can either love it or hate it. The timelines for results are, at best, wishful thinking. Half the time you end up covering campaigns you…
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Harrison Hosts Drive-In Rally
2020-10-25 03:19:49 UTC
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Jaime Harrison, who is challenging incumbent senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, held a drive-in rally in Florence on Saturday afternoon. Polling has Harrison and Graham in a statistical dead heat. Harrison has raised and outspent his opponent in the highly contested race.
Photographed for Reuters.
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Elk Hunt
2020-10-24 04:19:43 UTC
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Earlier this week I had planned on going up to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park to do some leaf peeping. I had been checking reports and forecasts, and this was the closest I could guess to being the peak of the leaf change. Well, either the forecast was wrong…
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Easy Like Monday Morning
2020-09-23 02:37:52 UTC
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After watching the first half of a lousy football game Sunday, which was plagued by power outages, a lightning delay AND poor play by the now 0-2 Miami Dolphins, I decided to head out of town for the day. I loaded up my camera gear and headed up to the…
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Bad Publicity Exists
2020-09-01 05:13:36 UTC
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There’s no such thing as bad publicity? Former Sgt. Chad Walker of the Columbia Police Department would probably disagree.
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Two days after Walker was recorded using the ‘n-word’ multiple times during an argument at a bar, and after the story was picked up nationally by outlets such as TMZ and…
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Charlotte Protests During RNC
2020-08-25 21:09:21 UTC
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Protestors took to the streets around downtown Charlotte, North Carolina during the first day of the Republican National Convention on Monday.
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River Rope Swings
2020-08-10 20:59:00 UTC
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Every year, from the trees that hang over the Lower Saluda, they appear.
Rope swings.
Handles are made from anything (hopefully) load bearing. Bicycle handles. Ski ropes. Sometimes sticks seem to be the only thing available.
Two-by-fours nailed to the trunks of trees act as makeshift ladders leading to the…
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Jawsome Diving
2020-08-03 16:45:14 UTC
Seeing as how 2020 is, well, 2020, I figured I’d try and take advantage of having some extra time and do something I’ve wanted to do for years: a shark dive.
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I’m not sure how I lived as a diver in Florida for so many years and never did one…
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Marchers March On
2020-07-04 07:21:39 UTC
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It’s been 35 days since the first major protests in Columbia. Where initial crowds of thousands crowded the lawn of the State House, now smaller crowds gather. Though the primary message of the group have remained the same – that Black Lives Matter – some protestors are taking on specific…