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Locally owned retailers reeling Found: 2 Weeks 3 Days 1 Hour 21 Minutes ago The State - Customers aren#8217;t showing up at Mayo#8217;s Suit City on Two Notch Road this holiday season, even on Saturdays, typically the hottest day of the week for retailers.p/#8220;The first words out of people#8217;s mouths when they walk through the door is, #8216;What#8217;s on sale?#8217;#8221; said Jerry Emanuel, who took over the discount suit store his father bought in 1975. #8220;It#8217;s beyond challenging.#8221;p/Mayo and many other locally owned retailers are slashing prices and relying on customer loyalty to make it through a shaky economy this holiday season.p/Many say sales are down only slightly or within certain segments of their business. Others, like Emanuel, are scrambling to find customers.p/#8220;This might be one of the worst holiday seasons in decades,#8221; said Richard Clodfelter, retail professor at the University of South Carolina....
Family needs help to provide for children at Christmas Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 2 Hours 51 Minutes ago SCNow - Kimberly’s family is feeling the direct effect of a shattered economy and a slumping housing market. Her husband, a carpenter by trade, hasn’t worked in months because no one is building houses. ...
Endangered fish found in N.C. rivers Found: 2 Weeks 5 Days 22 Hours 25 Minutes ago The Sun News - A federally endangered fish believed to exist only in two river basins in Virginia has been discovered in North Carolina.The Roanoke logperch, one of the largest darters in the Perch family, was thought to live only in portions of the Roanoke and Chowan River basins. Biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, the Division of Water Quality and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences found two populations of the fish in the Mayo and Smith rivers last July.With the findings, the commission said biologists will look at the two populations to determine how extensive and healthy they are. They will also look at other rivers with similar habitat for more undiscovered Roanoke logperches....
Happiness can be measured, but not bought Found: 2 Weeks 6 Days 11 Hours 39 Minutes ago Gaffney Ledger - ROCHESTER, Minn. - Happiness can be measured - but not bought, according to the December issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource. Those are two observations made by researchers as they studied well-being from the scientific perspective - sociological, biological, genetic and psychological....
Warrants: Teens read tarot cards before killing Eagle Scout Found: 3 Weeks 10 Hours 29 Minutes ago The State - RALEIGH, N.C. -- Four teenagers charged with Matthew Silliman's death foretold his future using tarot cards, beat him on the head with a hammer, bound him with zip ties, and suffocated him with duct tape, according to search warrants unsealed late Wednesday.Wake County sheriff's investigators found Silliman's body in a plastic bag on the bathroom floor of a mobile home in the New Hill community in southwestern Wake County on Dec. 2. The 18-year-old Eagle Scout was last seen at his Apex home Nov. 25.Deputies seized burned incense and ashes from the mobile home where his body was, according to the warrants.On Tuesday, a Wake County grand jury indicted Drew Logan Shaw, 16, Ryan Patrick Hare, 18, and Aadil Shahid Khan, 17, all of Apex, and Allegra Rose Dahlquist, 17, of Cary, on charges of murder in Silliman's death. The teens were linked by friends and courtships, and through social networking Web sites.Although the search warrants do not name Dahlquist and Khan, they say that suspects living at their addresses confessed and implicated other people. One of the other suspects also confessed, according to the warrants, though which was unclear....
Robert Alvin Hancock Found: 3 Weeks 1 Day 6 Hours 38 Minutes ago Gaffney Ledger - Robert Alvin Hancock, 61, of 510 Thompson St., passed away Sunday, Dec.14, 2008. Mr. Hancock was of the Baptist faith and a veteran of the United States Marine Corp. Surviving are a son, Robert Anthony Hancock and wife, Toya, of Mayo; a daughter, Amy Hancock Jones and husband, Todd, of Inman; and seven grandchildren....
Students, others set for presidential inauguration trips Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 3 Hours 22 Minutes ago SCNow - Students from Theodore Lester Elementary School in Florence and Mayo High School for Math, Science & Technology in Darlington are among others in the Pee Dee who will attend the 44th Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20. ...
Brokaw to speak at gala
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 17 Hours 50 Minutes ago Post & Courier - His window is significantly larger than ours, his work colored by conversations with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Dalai Lama and the Greatest Generation and interviews with every president since Lyndon B. Johnson.Tom Brokaw of NBC News will visit Charleston on Jan. 24 to speak at an annual donor appreciation gala given by the Roper St. Francis Foundation, the fundraising arm of Roper St. Francis Healthcare.
His presentation is aptly titled "An Anchorman's Look at the World."
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Obituaries 12-12-08 Found: 3 Weeks 6 Days 11 Hours 34 Minutes ago SCNOW.com - Obituaries 12-12-08
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Mayo moves up in U.S. News & World Report Found: 4 Weeks 1 Day 20 Hours 16 Minutes ago SCNOW.com - Mayo High School for Math, Science and Technology is one of five South Carolina public high schools to earn silver honors in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of America’s Best High Schools.
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