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Traffic trouble: Workshops study ways to ease congestion

SUMMERVILLE — Hung Ha, owner of Oakbrook Laundromat at Dorchester and Ladson roads, has a suggestion for relieving traffic around town. Make students at nearby Fort Dorchester High School ride the bus, he said. He figured they account for an extra 500 cars on the road every morning while he's trying to creep along Dorchester Road to work. "Every high school student is not supposed to drive his own car," Ha said. "That's what a school bus is for."

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Roper plans new cancer center

Roper St. Francis Healthcare plans to build a three-story cancer center at its West Ashley campus that it says will give patients hospital services in a more relaxing setting. Roper recently filed a preliminary request for approval for a 76,000-square-foot outpatient cancer facility at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital on Henry Tecklenburg Drive. It plans to break ground by summer and finish the building by the summer of 2010.



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Bosch plant offering buyouts

The upheaval in the automotive industry is driving some tough decisions in Dorchester County. Automotive parts maker Robert Bosch Corp., one of the Charleston region's biggest private-sector employers, said Thursday that it will cut its local payroll by offering voluntary buyout packages to all 2,100 workers at its local plant.

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Garcia excited to potentially play a bowl game in his hometown

COLUMBIA — At least one South Carolina football player is going to have his fruitcake and eat it, too, this month. Freshman quarterback Stephen Garcia figures to be home for the holidays as the Gamecocks prepare for their first New Year's Day bowl since the 2001 season. Garcia's from Tampa, Fla. And, hey, what do you know? South Carolina is all but a lock to play in the Bay Area's Outback Bowl.

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Dream weaver: Woman hopes creating jobs will end human trafficking

From her King Street store, a petite blond woman from small-town Ohio aims to curb human trafficking in Asia by creating jobs for 10,000 textile artisans. And to hear 44-year-old Eve Blossom talk about what she's already done in four years, it's easy to believe she just might do it.

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Berkeley selects 3 finalists for superintendent
MONCKS CORNER — Berkeley County School Board named its three final superintendent candidates late Thursday. The three are all current superintendents in Southern school systems. They are Faron Hollinger of Alabama; Richard Bales of Tennessee; and Anthony Parker of North Carolina.
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Harrell, Sanford at odds
COLUMBIA — To hear Gov. Mark Sanford and Rep. Nikki Haley tell it, Speaker Bobby Harrell runs the state House like a dictator, putting politics ahead of policy and using his position to push his own personal vendettas. Harrell dismissed the attacks, saying they're coming from disgruntled lawmakers. And while he didn't criticize the governor personally, he did answer a Sanford claim that he wasn't responding to his constituents.
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Shipwreck could have local ties
The slave ship Trouvadore sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 on its way to Cuba. Its recent discovery might reveal one more piece of the secret history of the illegal slave trade in the Lowcountry. Some of the ship's captives might have been on their way to slavery in Charleston. People who took in survivors might well have been the former slaves of Lowcountry plantation owners. The hints of connections to people and events here in the years before the Civil War beguile the archaeologists who just identified the historic wreck.
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