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South Carolina dodges hurricane,
gets slammed by epic rainstorm
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People across South Carolina
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how you can dodge a hurricane
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Authorities struggled to
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bridges collapsing, hundreds of
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Livingston, head of the South
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spheric Administration called
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ture that aimed directly at the
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has killed at least 10 people
in South Carolina and two in
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drove around a barricade and
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passenger managed to climb
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Jeanni Adame rides in her boat as she checks on neigh-
bors seeing if they want to evacuate in the Ashborough
subdivision near Summerville, S.C., after many of their
neighbors left, Monday. South Carolina is still struggling
with flood waters due to a slow moving storm system.
and stayed there like she did
with that water— there’s a
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est rains had moved into the
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Jersey Shore, some beaches
devastated by Superstorm San-
dy three years ago lost most of
their sand to the wind, rain and
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South Carolina authorities
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search and rescue into “assess-
ment and recovery mode,”
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citizens to remain careful as
a “wave” of water swelled
downstream and dams had
to be opened to prevent cata-
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because the rain stops, does
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governor’s news conference,
two dams in two separate
towns east of downtown Co-
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noon, forcing the evacuation of
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James Shirer, who lives in
the area, saw one of the dams,
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fell at Gills Creek near down-
town Columbia on Sunday
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er surveying the scene by he-
licopter saw the entire eastern
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parks nor upscale neighbor-
hoods were spared: One man-
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Shooter rants in manifesto
about having no girlfriend
Some students, staff
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ROSEBURG (AP) — The gunman
who executed nine people at an Oregon
community college before killing him-
self ranted in a manifesto he left behind
about not having a girlfriend and think-
ing everyone else was “crazy,” a law
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of 26-year-old gunman Christopher
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with the investigation but wasn’t au-
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manifesto about not having a girlfriend,
and he seemed to feel like he was very
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and students returned to the campus for
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President Barack Obama announced he
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with professional groups to discuss their
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and students for the first time since armed suspect Chris Harper-Mercer
killed multiple people and wounded several others on Thursday before
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people chatted at picnic tables or near
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designated an outdoor amphitheater as
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balloons were positioned on tables, and
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details about his visit were immediately
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Lawmakers mull ‘claw back’
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makers might consider leg-
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month asked the Legislature
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recipients are governments
and companies that do not
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lawmakers legislation could
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