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Authorities on Friday were searching for a 20-year-old man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Coastal Carolina University student in the parking lot of the South Carolina school's residence complex. Marquis Spencer McDonald, 20, was named as the suspect in Tuesday's shooting that left Anthony Darnell Liddell , 19, dead, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Liddell, a sophomore from Bennettsville, S.C., was shot once in the chest, the county coroner said.

Authorities on Friday were searching for a 20-year-old man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Coastal Carolina University student in the parking lot of the South Carolina school's residence complex. Marquis Spencer McDonald, 20, was named as the suspect in Tuesday's shooting that left Anthony Darnell Liddell , 19, dead, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. Liddell, a sophomore from Bennettsville, S.C., was shot once in the chest, the county coroner said.

South Carolina's athletic department has hired a "crisis management" media consultant in the wake of the football players' revolt and an internal investigation of the basketball program. Kathleen Hessert, president of Communication Concepts of Charlotte, N.C., is on a $1,500 monthly retainer.

South Carolina's athletic department has hired a "crisis management" media consultant in the wake of the football players' revolt and an internal investigation of the basketball program. Kathleen Hessert, president of Communication Concepts of Charlotte, N.C., is on a $1,500 monthly retainer.

Campaign '08 is officially underway. MSNBC announced Monday that it would carry live coverage of the first Democratic presidential debate, to be held in South Carolina on April 26, nine months before that state's primary. The 90-minute debate, hosted by South Carolina State University, is being produced by NBC News and organized in cooperation with the South Carolina Democratic Party. So far, it's the first debate on the calendar.

Carbon monoxide leaking from a water heater in a hotel converted into a dormitory apparently killed a South Carolina State University student, school officials said. Stephen A. Woolridge, 19, of Latta, was found dead Saturday night in his dorm room. An autopsy found "carbon monoxide-like symptoms were present," according to the school's statement Sunday. Other students complained of dizziness and headaches, university spokeswoman Cheryl Bates-Lee said.

Cruising across the regions, George W. Bush won five Republican presidential primary victories Tuesday in an accelerating drive to vanquish John McCain's political insurgency. "It's a huge step toward the nomination," the Texas governor said as McCain struggled to broaden his challenge beyond independent-minded New England. Bush won in Ohio, Georgia, Missouri and Maryland--and broke McCain's hold on the Northeast with a victory in Maine.

We tend to lionize or demonize our presidents. It would be tough to find many Abraham Lincoln detractors -- or, for that matter, many Warren G. Harding fans. But even our greatest heroes occasionally failed, and the worst presidents could boast of some worthy accomplishments. On the cusp of a new presidential administration and the end of another, we asked nine presidential historians to assess the actions of presidents past.

Presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark called Thursday for L. Paul Bremer III, head of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq, to be removed as part of a broad strategy to end the U.S. occupation. Clark said Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority he heads should be replaced by a non-American in charge of a new Iraqi Reconstruction and Democracy Council that would include representatives from the United States and its allies.

Pam McGee tied the score with 42 seconds left, but the Sparks, trying mightily to send Sunday afternoon's game at Washington into overtime, were beaten, 76-74, by a stumbling shot by the Mystics' Adrienne Shuler with 3.8 seconds left. The game-winning shot by Shuler, a 29-year-old assistant coach at South Carolina's Furman University, snuffed a closing two-minute Los Angeles drive, extended the Sparks' losing streak to three, and dropped their record to 10-16.

For many blacks, Strom Thurmond could never have lived long enough for them to forget his segregationist past. But as far as 104-year-old Mamie Rearden is concerned, he lasted long enough for her and other blacks to at least forgive. "They forgive him for the things that he did wrong, and they remember you can change," she said from her home here, where the home-grown governor and U.S. senator died Thursday at the age of 100.