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Gesture of Sportsmanship for Down’s Syndrome Player in SC Football Playoff Game (Video)
While headlines swirl around a sports scandal of epic proportions on the college level, a high school football team quietly demonstrated the meaning of...
13 Compassionate Americans Receive White House Medals
Recognizing their good deeds, President Barack Obama yesterday awarded the nation's second-highest civilian honor to 13 compassionate Americans for their decades of service helping the...
Amid Unemployment, An Encouraging Story of Finding a Job
Don Ray of Myrtle Beach was among those long-term unemployed. But now he has an encouraging story to tell. Ray had been looking for...
He Saved Six Soldiers’ Lives With Innovative Use of Child’s Toy
A remote control toy truck sent to a soldier in Afghanistan helped to save six of his friends after the toy triggered a bomb...
Marine’s Paris Island Gets First Female Commander
Parris Island, the South Carolina military installation that has trained thousands of young Marines, has its first female commander, Brig. Gen. Lori Reynolds, who...
New Boeing Factory 100% Powered by Renewable Energy
Boeing recently announced that their new 787 jet assembly plant in South Carolina will be completely powered by renewable energy. The new facility will...
President Obama Honors 15 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Today, President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, to fifteen diverse recipients. The Medal of Freedom is...
Retiree Gives $10,000 Back to California, Grateful for Unemployment Benefits
A South Carolina retiree is doing his part to help California close its massive budget deficit.
More than four decades after Dennis Ferguson received unemployment...
IRS Wants Millions in Refund Dollars to Reach Taxpayer Pockets
IRS officials are strongly encouraging taxpayers across the country to claim their money. Tens of thousands of refund checks mailed out for 2009 tax...
U.S. Government Leads the Way Cutting Greenhouse Gases
Leading by example, the US federal government, under orders from Barack Obama to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next ten...
Bruce Springsteen Donates $50,000 To Help Feed The Hungry And Unemployed
The tab for dinner is on Bruce Springsteen for fifteen hundred struggling South Carolina families, thanks to new mobile food pantries, funded in part...
Internet Angel Casts Free Broadband Net Over Entire Struggling Town
Entrepreneur Ward Shepherd has brought free wi-fi broadband access to a dirt-poor South Carolina town.
"Knowledge is what sets you free," says Shepherd. "Knowledge is...
Receiving an Armful of Summer Books Could Alter a Child’s Future
1) Books in the home correlate powerfully with student success, and, 2) young students can lose 1 ½ years of their reading achievement over...
Unemployed Friends: Jobless Find Support Online
Unemployment can be lonely. "It's isolating to be at home while most of the rest of the world is working," said Jennifer Hong,...
Generous CEO Transforms Decaying Classrooms — and Students
School furniture maker Sagus International has won a 2009 Outstanding Partnership Award from the Chicago Public Schools for the company’s donations that transformed classrooms...
Heartland States Send National Guard to Aid Afghan Farmers
National Guard troops from a half-dozen heartland states are taking their civilian farming know-how to Afghanistan in a little-noticed aspect of the Obama administration’s...
Most Stood by, But Two Braved an Explosion to Save Stranger
A South Carolina city has something to be proud of this week:
Two men braved a burning car to save a stranger seconds before...
53 Wind Projects Awarded $8.5M, Includes Environmental Impact Research
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu last week announced a list of 53 wind energy projects that will receive up to $8.5...
Student’s Letter to Congress Leads to School Makeover
Highlighted in Obama's speech, a South Carolina teen's plea to improve her run-down school inspired a quarter million dollar donation from local businessman....
SC Court Halts Thousands of Home Foreclosure Sales
South Carolina's highest court has temporarily stopped thousands of pending foreclosure sales so homeowners can take advantage of a new federal program to...