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Dispatches from Hurricane Bonnie -- Weblog
from Aug. 26 - 28 1998
- The Carolina coast's new offshore gambling boats could get shipped out to sea.
- Lotteries have rippled across the South, helping Democrats win governor's races in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. North Carolina could be next.
- South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled that video poker is legal, shifting the state's focus to how the controversial and growing industry will be regulated.
- Seconds after Ernest ``Buddy'' Cathey parked by his neighborhood pond to feed the ducks - like he does every day - his Oldsmobile rolled into the pond, pinning him under water.
- Jurors held Carolinas Ku Klux Klan groups and five other defendants liable for torching a black church and ordered them to pay $37.8 million, the largest verdict ever against a hate group.
- Four years ago, around the time Susan Smith drowned her sons, another
mother in South Carolina was accused of killing her children.
- A prosecutor convicted of sex charges may have gotten special treatment because he was a lawyer.
- Gene Merritt: A multimedia feature about a brain-damaged artist who's receiving international recognition.
- Police across South Carolina have been arresting pregnant drug addicts ever since the S.C. Supreme Court ruled that a viable fetus is a person. But the law may have more far-reaching implications.
- A narrative story about Nezzie Drewitt, one of the many so-called "crack moms" being prosecuted under a new S.C. law.
- Hanukkah in the South (A Column) and the wonderful reader
response
- The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mystery . . . and . . .
The Answer
- Malvin Marshall headed to the hospital with his mother last month to be treated for depression. Instead, he spent the past six weeks in jail.
- More people are accusing their neighbors of throwing ammonia in their pets' faces, or poisoning them with antifreeze, or shooting them with air rifles.
- Importing deer isn't just odd, it's a crime
- Baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is among the most valuable in the world -- so rare that the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association sued the state for his will.
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