NEWS
May 31, 1990 | United Press International
Federal authorities announced Wednesday the largest single cocaine seizure in South Carolina history--1,780 pounds--and the arrests of five suspects. U.S. Atty. Bart Daniel and FBI Special Agent Fred Verinder said the arrests stemmed from a May 6 seizure of uncut cocaine worth about $16 million.
NEWS
May 24, 2000 | From Associated Press
Gov. Jim Hodges signed legislation Tuesday to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome where is has flown for 38 years, saying it was time the state ended years of racial divisions the banner has caused. The flag will come down July 1. "Today, we bring this debate to an honorable end.
NEWS
July 25, 1986 | ELEANOR CLIFT, Times Staff Writer
Winding up a two-day political swing, President Reagan took time out from his fund-raising activities Thursday to meet with this area's drought-stricken farmers and to watch an Operation Haylift government cargo plane unload hay flown in from the Midwest to replace parched crops. The President said that the drought, the worst in recorded South Carolina history, is "reaching tragic proportions," and that his Administration "stands ready to help."
NEWS
November 11, 1991 | LYN RIDDLE, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Andrew Jackson's uncertain birthplace may be a simple footnote to history, but to the folks living in the two counties straddling the North and South Carolina border, it is as important as Sunday dinners and high school football. Road signs and murals in both counties--Union to the north and Lancaster to the south--proclaim Jackson a native son in a controversy whose intensity is matched only by the annual late summer gridiron clash between area high schools.
SPORTS
October 12, 1994 | JOHN JEANSONNE, NEWSDAY
Frank McGuire, the New York City coach whose "underground railroad" of New York recruits was a cornerstone of college basketball's rise in the South, died at his home in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday after a long illness. He was 80. Complications from a 1992 stroke had added to McGuire's declining health, the same year he suffered a broken hip in a fall.
NEWS
April 30, 1995 | ELAINE WOO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Before affirmative action, there was merit. Or so the argument goes. You were admitted to college, hired for a job and promoted through the ranks not because you belonged to a disadvantaged racial or ethnic group but because you deserved it, by dint of hard work, superior effort and proven good results. Affirmative action, its opponents lament, subverted that most American of principles: that merit--not favor--is the fuel that propels you upward through the system.