Positive news from South Carolina
Run-down SC School Featured By Obama Gets FaceliftStudents who had grown resigned to old, "nasty" furnishings at their dilapidated middle school in rural South Carolina were elated Monday to find new furniture and a freshly painted cafeteria, thanks to a student's plea, a president's speech and a businessman's response.
"It was heartwarming."
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Run-down SC School Featured By Obama Gets FaceliftStudents who had grown resigned to old, "nasty" furnishings at their dilapidated middle school in rural South Carolina were elated Monday to find new furniture and a freshly painted cafeteria, thanks to a student's plea, a president's speech and a businessman's response. |
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Homeowners win a reprieveSouth Carolina's highest court has halted foreclosure auctions around the state at the request of one of the country's largest mortgage financing businesses, buying some homeowners extra time to work out new repayment plans. |
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Southern Baptist leaders sign environment vowNew York City, New York, USA - In a major shift, a group of Southern Baptist leaders said their denomination has been "too timid" on environmental issues and has a biblical duty to stop global warming. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Teenager walks away after 6-story plungeMyrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA - A teenager fell six stories from a hotel balcony but walked away with just bruises and scrapes. |
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Goodwill worker gets to keep pajamas jackpotGreenville, South Carolina, USA - A Goodwill Industries worker who turned in more than $5,000 she found in donated pajama pants will get to keep the money because the owner could not be found. |
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Loggerhead Turtle Rescued Off S.C. CoastCharleston, South Carolina, USA - A rarely seen male loggerhead turtle was being treated at an animal hospital Thursday after rope from a crab pot became wrapped around a fin, officials said. |
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Agape at Goodwill: $5,000 found in pajamasGreenville. South Carolina, USA - Someone left more than $5,000 in cash in an envelope tucked into a pair of pajamas donated to Goodwill. |
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A marriage 47 years in the makingLake Murray, South Carolina, USA - Bootsie Hall doesnt remember when she broke up with her husband, Beverly җ but he remembers every detail. |
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