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 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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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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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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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.
Photo Gallery: Lulan Artisans
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