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Suspicous fire in Florence County Found: 13 Hours 56 Minutes ago SCNow - Investigators are trying to figure out how an unoccupied mobile caught fire early Thursday morning in Florence County. ...
First McNair Scholar finalists to be interviewed at FMU Found: Minutes ago SCNow - Members of the McNair Center Advisory Council will be on the campus of Francis Marion University beginning at 9:30 a.m. Friday to conduct interviews for the selection of two students to participate in the McNair Scholars Program.
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Florence County ripped by high winds Found: 14 Hours 3 Minutes ago SCNow - Florence County Emergency Management is monitoring a high winds affecting Florence County. ...
FMU to unveil Center for Entrepreneurship Found: 14 Hours 4 Minutes ago SCNow - Francis Marion University’s School of Business is expanding with the unveiling of its new Center for Entrepreneurship. The unveiling will take place at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 21 in Thomason Auditorium in the Lee Nursing Building on the FMU campus. ...
Prison chaplain killed in motorcycle accident Found: 15 Hours 59 Minutes ago The State - A chaplain with the S.C. Department of Corrections was killed after the motorcycle he was driving was struck from behind by a car on Interstate 20 in Lee County, The (Sumter) Item is reporting.p/The Rev. Wilbert Wilks of Conway died Wednesday morning at a Florence hospital, according to reports. Wilks was a chaplain at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville.p/The accident is being investigated by the Lee County Sheriff's Department at the request of the S.C. Highway Patrol to avoid possible conflict of interest, the newspaper said. Wilks has a son who serves with the Highway Patrol.p/Reports indicate the driver of the car has been charged in the accident.p/-- From Staff Reports...
Florence doctor sentenced on false tax return charges Found: Minutes ago The State - A Florence emergency room doctor has been sentenced after federal officials determined he falsified his income tax returns.p/Dr. Erik Dehlinger, 46, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison for three counts of willfully making and subscribing to a false federal income tax return, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Dehlinger was also ordered to pay $363,207 in restitution.p/Evidence presented at trial indicated that from 1999 through 2002, Dehlinger enlisted the services of Anderson’s Ark and Associates, an out-of-state organization promoting tax fraud strategies for its members. Over the course of his involvement with the organization, Dehlinger claimed more than $1 million in false expenses and loan obligations in order to eliminate about $360,000 in tax liabilities. p/Dr. Dehlinger joins at least nine other Anderson's Ark and Associates'customers who now wear the lifelong title 'convicted felon'for their participation in illegal tax fraud scams,said Nathan J. Hochman, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Tax Division. p/With the beginning of a new tax filing season, the IRS message is clear: We will continue to investigate individuals who intentionally evade their legal responsibility of paying taxes; it's a matter of maintaining public confidence in the tax system,said Eileen Mayer, IRS Chief, Criminal Investigation....
Full hearing on coal plant
Found: 17 Hours 3 Minutes ago Post & Courier - The state's chief environmental board should agree today to hold its own hearing on a coal-burning power plant, given the controversy surrounding the Santee-Cooper project. The air-quality permit issued by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has been challenged by a number of environmental groups in the state.
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Third trooper facing federal civil rights charge Found: 20 Hours 3 Minutes ago Times Democrat - COLUMBIA (AP) ?A South Carolina state trooper caught on video trying to run down a suspect with his patrol car is expected to plead guilty to a federal civil rights charge, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
Squaring off over proposed nuclear power plants Found: 20 Hours 9 Minutes ago Times Democrat - COLUMBIA (AP) ?Conservationists and business leaders are taking sides as the state?s utilities pitch several new power plants, both coal- and nuclear-powered....
Heavy hitters weigh in to oppose coal plant Found: 20 Hours 21 Minutes ago The State - Conservationists who oppose a mega-coal plant near Florence brought in reinforcements Wednesday to fight the $2.2 billion Santee Cooper project.p/The Sierra Club#8217;s national coal campaign director, Bruce Nilles, said the state-owned utility is out-of-step in pushing the new plant.p/#8220;Why is Santee Cooper wanting to take the state in one direction when the rest of the country is rapidly moving in the other direction?#8221; Nilles asked.p/Georgia, Kansas and Iowa are among states that have slowed efforts to develop coal plants, he said during a news conference to rally support against the South Carolina facility. Meanwhile, Northeastern states are trying to reduce pollution from existing plants, he said.p/State-owned Santee Cooper says it needs the plant because it can#8217;t meet the state#8217;s electricity needs in the near future through conservation and efficiency, as environmentalists contend....
