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"Some counted me out and said to drop out," the former first lady told supporters cheering her triumph in a state where she was outspent by more than two-to-one. "But the American people don't quit. And they deserve a president who doesn't quit, either."

"Because of you, the tide is turning."

Her victory, while comfortable, set up another critical test in two weeks time in Indiana. North Carolina votes the same day, and Obama already is the clear favorite in a Southern state with a large black population.

"Now it's up to you, Indiana," Obama said at a rally of his own in Evansville after Pennsylvania denied him a victory that might have made the nomination his.

If convicted, the 18-year-old straight-A student could spend the rest of his life in prison, McDonald said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas E. Rogers III issued a criminal complaint charging Schallenberger with:

• Attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property within the United States

• Attempting to damage and destroy by means of explosive any building and real property getting federal funds

Walking to her off-campus chemistry lab when it was raining, however, was a different story for the student at Hartsville’s Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics.

“The road was flooded. I was soaking wet,” the senior from Columbia recalled, laughing.

In 2009, students won’t have to walk as far to labs.

On Friday, the Governor’s School will break ground on the second half of its Darlington County campus, which will include science labs and a gym.

The lake is nearly a foot higher than usual — a level shoreline group leaders say hasn’t been reached in 40 years.

Water is lapping closer to many waterfront homes, flooding docks, submerging landscape and eroding shoreline.

But many homeowners say those problems are tolerable, hoping the high level assures enough water to boat this summer.

For the past five years, the lake has been low because of improvements to the dam and a drought. At times, the lake was more than 14 feet lower than it is today.

Rep. Bill Witherspoon, R-Horry, persuaded the House to send the plan to a legislative committee - a move that increases chances the public will get to comment.

At issue is a House resolution that could change the way the state has protected coastal wetlands the past 30 years. Conservation groups say the proposal could weaken the law and eventually leave thousands of acres of freshwater wetlands vulnerable to development from Hilton Head Island to Myrtle Beach.

Witherspoon and Greenville Republican Dwight Loftis - who have been critical of state wetlands regulation - introduced their resolution last week.

But the proposal by-passed committee review and went directly Tuesday to the House floor, an unusual move that irked environmental groups. Public hearings are often held in committees.

“Our goal is to get returning soldiers demobilized and out-processed ASAP upon their arrival back into the U.S.,” said Col. Pete Brooks, Guard spokesman.

A second planeload of soldiers from the 218th Brigade Combat Team, ending a yearlong tour in Afghanistan, is due at Fort Bragg, N.C., later this week.

The soldiers’ return was delayed for more than a week because the airline hired to fly them home, ATA, shut down after filing for bankruptcy.

When Guard units have returned to Fort Bragg in the past, some families have driven from South Carolina to greet their soldiers at a North Carolina air base.

Lori Ellis, who has a criminal history dating to 1972 in New York and South Carolina, was being served warrants charging her with a liquor law violation, a fraudulent check charge and two traffic violations, Kershaw County Sheriff’s Capt. David Thomley said.

It is unclear whether anyone else was in the house with Ellis.

Thomley would not say how many shots Ellis or the officers fired.

Deputies Tyrell Coleman and William Sowell and DNR agent Gregg Lowery arrived around 11 p.m. Monday at Ellis’ residence on Dogwood Lane, Thomley said. They asked her to comply with their requests and identified themselves several times, he said.

For many years, “China and Tibet lived together,” Geshe Dakpa Topgyal said Tuesday in a telephone interview. “We treated China as our uncle, and they treated us as a nephew.”

Now, he said, China wants to openly destroy that nephew, wiping out the cultural and religious traditions Tibetans have cherished for centuries.

With reports of heightened clashes between China and Tibet making front-page news, emotions have heated up on college campuses between pro-Chinese and pro-Tibetan protesters.

Passions run high, as witnessed in a heated exchange at Duke University two weeks ago. Chinese student Grace Wang tried to mediate a campus protest between 400 pro-Chinese demonstrators and 12 protesters making the case for Tibetan independence.

Lisa Drive, 1000 block: A woman called police at 1 p.m. Saturday to report that another woman had threatened to hit her with a walking cane. The 59-year-old woman told deputies that she and the other woman, who is 88, were watching television when the older woman screamed at her to shut up. The older woman then again yelled at the younger woman to shut up or said she would hit her with her walking stick. When deputies spoke to the accused woman, she denied threatening to hit the other woman, but admitted yelling at her to shut up. The older woman said the younger woman talked incessantly and so loudly that she couldn’t watch her television programs. Since the accused woman uses an oxygen tank and moves with difficulty and very slowly, deputies deemed her not to be a threat. No arrests were made.

South Lake Drive, 1800 block: A man called police at 10 p.m. Saturday after he said another man had approached his wife as she was leaving a store. The man said his wife got scared when the strange man walked up to her and began to yell. The man walked away, but the wife called her husband and he went back to the store and found the man still in the parking lot. The husband called police and the man was found to be inebriated, so he was arrested. While in the police car, the man tried to shove some pills between the seats. A later test determined the pills to be Xanax, and police found 19 of them in the car.

RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF

Decker Boulevard, 2000 block: Two men were arrested and charged with drug possession after police pulled them over for a broken tail light at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Once deputies pulled the car over, the driver couldn’t produce a registration or a driver’s license. He told them that the car belonged to a friend and he couldn’t find his license. While he was looking, he opened the console compartment and deputies saw a bag of what appeared to be marijuana, so a drug-sniffing dog was called. Another bag of the drug was found stuffed in a potato-chip can.

Officers responded to a California Drive home about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday. A woman was being treated by paramedics for a wound to the back of the head.

She told officers her husband was still in the home with a gun. Police found him dead in the back yard. The man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said.

The woman was taken to Palmetto Health Richland for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

— Ishmael Tate

An audit ordered by management company The Club Group found that chief financial officer Dennis Gerwing took money from its clients for four years, depositing it into a hidden checking account, the company said.

Gerwing, who had a home in Columbia, committed suicide March 11 after police questioned him about the disappearance of John and Elizabeth Calvert, a couple who live part time on a yacht on the resort island and in a home in Atlanta. The couple were last seen in early March, and searches of the resort island, its harbor and in Georgia have been fruitless.

Police have said Gerwing, 54, was the last person to see the couple together.

Mark King, president of The Club Group, said he met last week with the clients who lost money and promised to repay them using money from Gerwing’s estate, insurance settlements and his own assets.

All told, the race between Gergel and Brian Boyer netted a record $418,307 in campaign contributions and represents a maturing political system that is relying more on direct mail and TV ads than face-to-face, grassroots campaigning.

“We’re growing up as a city,” political consultant Bob Wislinski said. “One of those signs will be increased expenditures within the political system.”

Gergel had to dip into her own savings in the final two weeks to cover about $84,000 in TV ads. She used her own money, plus campaign money left over from previous cycles, to cover the cost.

“I hated having to spend that money,” Gergel said. “But the fact was that we were campaigning on TV now, and I either had to respond or let my opponent walk away with the race because he bought TV and I didn’t.”

Don Fowler, a Voorhees trustee and spokesman for the board, said Sellers is “the right person at the right time” for the college.

“He has an academic record that faculty can admire and respect,” Fowler said. “We expect him to be a very attractive president to students who might attend Voorhees. His personal story is appealing.”

Sellers, 63, first came to state and national attention on Feb. 8, 1968, when state Highway Patrol troopers fired upon students at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, killing three young men. Sellers was the only person prosecuted in the wake of the incident, often referred to as the Orangeburg Massacre. He served seven months of a one-year sentence in state prison for his involvement. The state later pardoned him.

Sellers will be returning to Denmark in Bamberg County, the community of his birth, “to give something back,” he said, to a region that was home to at least three earlier generations of his family. He graduated from Voorhees High School in 1962, when the institution was paid by the state to educate the region’s black children. It also included a junior college at the time and became a four-year college in 1967.

“I think that they played the race card on me. And we now know from memos on the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, explaining why comments he made in S.C. comparing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign to that of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s in 1988 became controversial. Obama backers — and some political observers — said Clinton’s comments were meant to marginalize Obama’s surging campaign by comparing it to the largely symbolic run by Jackson.

S.C. PRIMARY

Days left until the June 10 primary: 48

The latest test begins today in Fort Worth.

Nearly 1,000 lay and clergy delegates — mainly from the United States, but with a strong African contingent — will gather at the Convention Center for a General Conference, a term that covers both the denomination’s top legislative body and the body’s quadrennial meeting.

This epic exercise in church democracy lasts nine days, during which about 1,600 proposed resolutions and changes to church law and policy — everything from revising the denomination’s hymnal to boycotting companies with questionable labor practices — will at least get looked at by a committee.

And there will almost certainly be another round of heated debate and contentious votes over whether the United Methodist Church should change its official position that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching and withdraw its ban on non-celibate gay pastors.

Maurice Washington, chairman of the school’s board of trustees, said there is no particular favorite among the five finalists announced Tuesday.

“The committee felt strongly about all five,” said Washington, who also chairs the search committee.

S.C. State will choose from:

• Johnson O. Akinleye, associate vice chancellor for academic programs, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Sheriff Leon Lott said the “Criminal Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault First Responder Program” grant will buy 150 digital cameras, a computer server, seven computer printers, and 13 forensic light sources, which show bruises invisible to the naked eye. Officers will use the equipment to build tighter cases against suspects and to improve services to victims.

The jury deliberated about six hours before Circuit Judge William Keesley declared a mistrial, said Columbia attorney I.S. Leevy Johnson, who represents the defendant, Mark Richardson.

Richardson, 33, of Columbia, is charged with killing USC student Shelton Sanders, 25, who has been missing since 2001.

Prosecutors during the trial said investigators believe Sanders was shot to death, though Johnson contended authorities had no hard evidence his client killed Sanders, or that Sanders is even dead.

Johnson said Tuesday prosecutors have not informed him whether they plan to retry Richardson, who is free on bail.

Imagine North Main Academy contends Richland 1 missed a deadline to hold a timely hearing on its application and by law is entitled to open the school this August. Richland 1 denies any wrongdoing.

The proposed charter school’s advisory panel says Richland 1’s decision is hampering teacher recruitment. The advisory panel also will pursue an administrative appeal before the S.C. Board of Education next month.

Tuesday, a council committee agreed to put the issue on the council’s May 6 agenda at the urging of Councilman Joe McEachern.

McEachern said he would like for Columbia and Richland County to end up with consistent laws. The city has approved a no-smoking policy for restaurants but not bars. Councilwoman Bernice Scott said she was worried about “mom and pop” businesses in rural areas that rely on patrons who want to smoke while they drink.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters outlined the plan on Earth Day, setting a schedule that was more aggressive than initially expected by the auto industry. It responds to a new energy law that requires new cars and trucks, taken as a collective average, to meet 35 mpg by 2020.

“This proposal is going to help us all breathe a little easier by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from tailpipes, cutting fuel consumption and making driving a little more affordable,” Peters said.

New cars and trucks will have to meet a fleet-wide average of 31.6 mpg by 2015, or about a 4.5 percent annual increase from 2011 to 2015. In 2015, passenger cars will need to achieve 35.7 mpg and trucks will need to reach 28.6 mpg. The rules were designed to push companies to boost fuel efficiency across their entire lineup.

Manufacturers will have different requirements for cars and trucks of different sizes based on vehicle sales. Collectively, the fleet of new vehicles will need to meet the rules.

The FDA released a warning letter to Changzhou SPL Co., hours after Chinese officials voiced doubts that a contaminant identified in the blood thinner heparin caused severe allergic reactions in hundreds of U.S. patients.

The FDA told Changzhou SPL that it had “significant deviations” from good manufacturing processes. Until it complies, the agency will recommend disapproval of any new applications listing the company as the manufacturer of any active pharmaceutical ingredient.

Raw heparin is derived from pig intestines, often processed by small, unregistered workshops in China. Heparin is commonly used before certain types of surgery to prevent dangerous blood clots. Kidney patients also take it before undergoing dialysis.

The raw ingredient for Baxter International’s recalled heparin came from Wisconsin-based Scientific Protein Laboratories, which in turn owns a Chinese factory — Changzhou SPL — and buys additional raw heparin from other Chinese suppliers.

1864: Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on coins.

1938: 45 workers were killed in a coal mine explosion at Keen Mountain in Buchanan County, Va.

1954: The publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.

1964: President Johnson opened the New York World’s Fair.

The agency announced Monday it has $20 million to loan to S.C. teachers who meet income eligibility requirements.

For example, a teacher earning $26,100 in annual salary can qualify for a low-interest loan to buy a house selling for as much as $180,144 in Jasper County, according to state Housing Finance and Development Authority guidelines. To get a loan for a house at that same price in Richland County, an educator would need to earn a minimum of $33,950.

Teachers and districts in both rural and wealthier areas of the state could benefit.

“I have been in the market for a house for quite a while” said Fran Guinn, a second-year social-studies teacher at Whitmire Community School in Newberry County. She used to rent a duplex in Newberry but now lives with her grandmother in Whitmire.

Interfax quoted an unidentified Russian space official as saying the capsule entered Earth’s atmosphere Saturday with the hatch first instead of its heat shield leading the way. As a result, the hatch sustained significant damage.

The official said a valve that equalizes pressure within the TMA-11 capsule with the outside also was damaged.

In addition, the capsule’s antenna burned up, meaning the crew couldn’t communicate properly with Russian Mission Control, the official said.

Interfax said another official at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan reported that the U.S. military tracked the Soyuz’s landing 260 miles from its planned touchdown and directed Russian searchers to the site.

Five of the students will receive corporate-sponsored scholarships, while the other 35 earned scholarships presented to outstanding black high school students.

Corporate organizations generally provide scholarships for students who are children of their employees, residents of communities the sponsoring company or organization serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers that the sponsor wishes to encourage.

Most of the scholarships are renewable for up to four years of college undergraduate study and provide annual stipends that range from $500 to $10,000 per year.

Some provide a single payment between $2,500 and $5,000. Recipients can use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university of their choice.

If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison, McDonald said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas E. Rogers III has issued a criminal complaint charging Schallenberger with:

The Greenville News reported Monday that prosecutor Bob Ariail said the evidence against Bob Pollock and Charles Foster could not support criminal charges.

The State Law Enforcement Division had been investigating the coaches. Officials said both coaches had taken pay cuts to repay the university more than $27,000.

Athletics department spokesman Tim Bourret said he could not comment on the investigation.

Adams — a 16-year-old who attends Dreher High and the Heyward Career and Technology Center, battles cerebral palsy and earns A’s — was honored by Gov. Mark Sanford with a citizenship award, one of 1,007 S.C. students recognized for exhibiting character, service, leadership, responsibility and discipline.

Adams demonstrated all of that by taking a few steps.

The crowd of honored students, teachers and family members cheered loudly when Adams rose from his wheelchair and walked across the State House steps to receive his award from Sanford.

The unassisted steps were some of the first he has taken in four years, since the cerebral palsy robbed him of his mobility and forced him into a wheelchair.

Ryan Schallenberger — a 5-foot-5, straight-A student, practical jokester — was anything but the brooding teen who usually threatens violence at schools, authorities say.

“His fingernails aren’t painted black or anything — none of this Gothic” stuff, the 4th Circuit solicitor said. “That’s what makes it all the more frightening. If he had some of that, you could say, ‘Oh another one of those.’ ”

And yet, the confident 18-year-old, who had been offered an academic scholarship to Clemson University, stands charged with threatening to use ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel to blow up Chesterfield High School — the very school where he was in contention to be the salutatorian of his senior class.

And today prosecutors plan to charge him with the even more serious crime of actually possessing the materials he would need to do just that — just a month and a half before graduation.

Officials hope the event will encourage students to make good decisions as they enter high school next year.

The Lexington Police Department, Lexington County Fire Service, Emergency Medical Service and coroner’s office are among the sponsors.

-- Ishmael Tate

Well, maybe that alone won’t do it. But according to Sodexo, the world’s largest institutional food service provider, if everyone did it, the savings in water resources and reduced carbon emissions would be enormous.

Using Earth Day, which is today, as a teaching moment, Sodexo is offering a grilled PB&J today at Columbia College and several more of the 11 college campuses it serves across South Carolina. According to Sodexo estimates, substituting one PB&J for one hamburger can reduce water consumption by 133 gallons and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 pounds.

And animal products require six to 17 times as much land as soy to produce the same amount of protein, according to www.pbjcampaign.org.

Columbia College president Caroline Whitson said today’s PB&J event “is a perfect example of the role higher education can play. We are modeling to students, telling them it is a small thing they can do that can make a big difference if a lot of people do it.”

A state senator from Summerville has been charged with driving under the influence.

Randy Scott was pulled over Saturday night for driving erratically and was arrested after failing a field sobriety test, Dorchester County deputies said.

But Scott’s lawyer says the Dorchester County Republican struggled with walking heel-to-toe in the rain because he lost a leg in a hunting accident and wears a prosthetic limb.

Defense attorney Reese Joye also says a videotape recorded by police shows Scott was not intoxicated according to a breath test.

Ms. Woodard died Friday, April 18, 2008. Born in Columbia, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Ida Harrington Woodard. She retired from the Wynn Dixie Corporation where she worked as a bookkeeper.

She is survived by her stepmother, Precious Woodard of Columbia; sisters, Mary Eleanor Williams of Columbia, Mary Ann Scott of Braddock, PA, Jacqueline (Eddie) Nelson and Carlotta (Charles) Porterfield, both of Columbia, Paula Woodard and Janice (Jessie) Roberts, both of Columbus, GA; brothers, Charles B. (Blannie) Woodard, III of Columbus, GA, and Thomas Woodard of Frankfurt, Germany; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

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A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 24, 2008, in Manning Cemetery, Manning. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday evening at Stephens Funeral Home and Crematory, 304 N. Church Street, Manning.

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Funeral services will be held 3:00 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 2008, at Canaan Baptist Church in Canaan Community, Cope, S.C. Officiating will be Rev. Charles Bradley, Rev. Scott Alewine and Rev. Alan Woodward. Burial will be in Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery.

Survivors include a loving and caring wife of 57 years, Betty Smoak Sanders of the home; daughter and son-in-law, Debbie and David Zorn of Canaan Community, Cope, S.C.; sons and daughter-in-law, Dean and Dale Sanders, Ray and Sheila Sanders, all of Canaan Community, Cope, S.C.; sister and brother-in-law, Jackie and John Champy of Williston; grandchildren, Becky and Kevin Sprague, Holly and Casey Stillinger, Briana Sanders, Brandon Zorn and Alaina Zorn, all of Canaan Community, Lee Sanders of Greenville, Amber and Erice Williams of Bamberg and Drew Sanders of Canaan; great-grandchildren, Laurie Sprague and Josh Sprague, both of Canaan Community and a number of nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at the residence of Debbie and David Zorn, 325 Banning Street, Canaan Community, Cope, SC 29038 and at Thompson Funeral Home, Inc. in Orangeburg. Visitation will be 7:00-9:00 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson Funeral Home, Inc. in Orangeburg, S.C.

Memorials may be made to the Cemetery Fund of Canaan Baptist Church, c/o Mr. Thomas Brickle, 450 Cannon Bridge Road, Cope SC 29038.

J.P. Holley Funeral Home, Columbia, has been entrusted with final arrangements.

Mr. Moye died Saturday, April 19, 2008. Born in Columbia, he was the son of the late Alfred Sr. and Emma Johnson Wilson. He was a member of Antioch AMEZ Church and employed as a textile mechanic.

Mr. Moye is lovingly survived by his wife, Mae France Moye; sons, Sidney Bostic, Bobby Moye Jr., Jimmy Williams; daughters, Eunice Shepard, Barbara Davis, Robin Sumter; brothers, Willie Moye Sr., Alfred Wilson Jr., Nathan Wilson, George Wilson; sisters, Louise Thompson, Vivian Epps, Rosilyn Reaves; eight grandchildren.

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Mr. Pruett was born May 5, 1935, in Macon, GA, the son of the late George Eddie Pruett and the late Eunice Clyde Thompson. He was a member of Springbranch Baptist Church, Bamberg, SC, and had retired from Delevan with over 30 years’ service. He enjoyed fishing, shrimping, music and spending time with grandchildren. He was a member of Gideons International, was a deacon in his church and was in the church choir. He loved his church and was a devoted Christian.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 3:00 p.m. in Springbranch Baptist Church with Rev. Donnie Delk and Rev. Andy Hunter officiating. Burial to follow in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be deacons of Springbranch Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife of 47 years; 2 sons, Edward “Eddie” Pruett and Beth of Bamberg, SC, and Richard Kevin Pruett and Kathy of Anderson, SC; 3 brothers, Hilton Pruett of New Ellenton, SC, Wayne Pruett of Greenwood, SC, and Cecil Dale Pruett of Sandersville, GA; 5 grandchildren, Erin Pruett, Abigail Pruett, Katie Pruett, Jenna Pruett and Thompson Pruett. He was predeceased by 1 brother, James Pruett and 1 sister, Grace Pruett Freeman.

Visitation will be Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at Cooner Funeral Home in Bamberg, SC, from 6-8 p.m. Memorials may be made to Springbranch Baptist Church “Bus Fund,” 833 Deacon Road, Bamberg, SC 29003 or to Gideons International, 65 Galilee Road, Barnwell, SC 29812.

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J.P. Holley Funeral Home has been entrusted with final arrangements.

Mr. Macon died Thursday, April 17, 2008. Born in Gadsden, he was the son of David and Melvina Scott Macon. He was employed as a master mechanic of carpentry at BJ’s Maintenance.

Mr. Macon is lovingly survived by his mother, Melvina S. Macon; sons, Benjamin R. Macon, Jr., Tony D. Macon, Sr.; stepson, Terrence N. Jennings; stepdaughter, Dantavia S. Gamble; brothers, David (Daisy) Macon, Robert Lee (Janice) Macon, James (Henrietta) Macon; sisters, Dorothy (Moses) Bates, Rose Lee Macon (Jimmie) Macon, Evelyn (Marion) Nelson; six grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren.

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Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. at Jerusalem Baptist Church, Ridge Spring, SC, with burial in the church cemetery.

Surviving are brothers, Arthur Kenner, Jr., Ridge Spring, SC, and a sister, Vera K. Key, Ridge Spring, SC.

Quiet hour will be Wednesday, April 23, 2008, from 7-8 p.m. at Davis Funeral Home. The body will be placed in the church at 12 p.m. the day of the service.

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Mrs. Kruger was born June 13, 1933, in Georgetown, SC, daughter of the late John Roger Bragdon and Norvell Elizabeth Woodberry Bragdon Barnes. She graduated from McClenaghan High School and attended Business College. She also was a member of the Country Club of Charleston and Hobcaw Yacht Club. She was an excellent golfer, achieving two holes in one. She was an avid angler, winning many awards.

She is survived by her son, Kurt Eric Kruger and his wife, Beverly, of Meggett, SC; half brother, Billy Bragdon of Columbia, SC; granddaughters, Theresa Reese and her husband, Kevin, of Charlotte, NC, Courtney Francis of Mt. Pleasant, SC, and Erica Miller and her husband, Matthew, of Ladson, SC; grandson, Kurt Aaron Kruger and his wife, Jill, of James Island, SC; great-grandson, Latham Miller of Ladson, SC. She was preceded in death by daughter, Marion Kruger Stockman, son, Brett Gregg Kruger and brother, John Roger Bragdon, II.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 604 Pitt Street, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.

The family requests memorial messages be written to the family by visiting our website at www.jhenrystuhr.com.

Mr. Anderson, born June 27, 1965, in High Point, NC, passed away Saturday, April 19, 2008. He was the son of Billie Joan Sanders Anderson and the late Jimmy Russell Anderson. He was a member of Camp Swampy Bass Club. Mr. Anderson was a loving son, father and friend. He was owner and operator of Special D Courier Service for 18 years.

Mr. Anderson is survived by his mother of Lexington; son, Christopher Russell Anderson and his wife, Santana of Lexington; grandson, Ethan Anderson; sister, Deborah A. Brown of Darlington; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins; friends, Glenda Brown of Lexington and Timmy McLemore of Three Fountains.

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Born June 18, 1949, in Conway, SC, he was the son of the late J.D. and Gracie Graham. He was educated in Horry County public schools and earned the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity degrees from Morris College, Sumter, SC. He was also the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree from Morris College. He was a member of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Conway, SC, and held memberships in the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. and its Global Mission Board; South Carolina Baptist and Educational Convention, serving as an officer for more than two decades; Life Member of the NAACP; former treasurer of the Gethsemane Baptist Association and the Progressive Fellowship of South Carolina. In May of 2005, Dr. Graham was elected president of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina. He was also affiliated with numerous other religious, civic and fraternal organizations. He served as assistant pastor of the following churches: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Conway, SC; Second Baptist Church, Hartsville, SC (1969-70); New Ebenezer Baptist Church, Florence (1970-72). He served as pastor of the following churches: Meadow Prong Baptist Church, Effingham (1973-76); New Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Orangeburg (1976-81); New Ebenezer Baptist Church, Florence (1981-88); Tabernacle Baptist Church, Greenville (1988-19995); and Zion Baptist Church, Columbia (1995 until his death).

Survivors include his lovely wife of 35 years, Mary Alice Gerald Graham; one daughter, Alicia Graham; one son, Lewis P. Graham Jr.; three brothers, George E. Graham (Frances), Conway, SC, Jason Graham (Florence), Temple Hills, MD, John Graham (Jonelle), Conway; one sister, Carrie Gerald (Timothy), Aynor, SC; five brothers-in-law, Leon Windes, Isaac Gerald Jr. (Genieve), Tony Gerald, Donald Gerald (Sarah), and Dennis Gerald (Sheila), all of Aynor, SC; two sisters-in-law, Ruth Graham, Washington, DC, and Angileen Graham, Conway, SC; twenty-two nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Rev. Lenwood Graham and Rev. Dennis Graham, and one sister-in-law, Onita Windes.

The family will receive friends at the home, 2121 Bee Ridge Road, Columbia, SC 29223. Job’s Mortuary, Inc., 312 S. Main Street, Sumter, SC 29150, (803) 773-3323, is in charge of arrangements. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com.

Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, April 24, 2008, at First Baptist Church of Denmark, with Rev. Andy Hunter officiating. Burial with Eastern Star Rites will be in Denmark Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the church from 10 until 11 a.m. Thursday. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Denmark, P.O. Box 325, Denmark, SC 29042.

Mrs. Poston was born January 15, 1912, in Coward, SC, a daughter of the late Silas McDuffie Poston and Eva Lee Poston. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Bethany Sunday School Class and the Eastern Star, in which she had served as Grand Worthy Matron.

She was known for her fruit cakes, chocolate and banana pudding. She was a very gracious lady and was loved by all.

Surviving are a son, Wayne (Mary) Poston of Denmark; grandchildren, Paige (Harvey) Graham, Glen (Cindy) Lancaster; great-grandchildren, Grayson Graham, Travis Lancaster, Tiffany (Tommy) Moore and four great-great-grandchildren.

Born in Greenwood, she was the daughter of Linda Coleman Self and the late James Cuthbert “Jimmy” Self, Jr.

Elizabeth was a graduate of Greenwood High School, attended Converse College and was a 1995 graduate of the College of Charleston, where she received her B.A. degree in communications. She served as a newsroom intern under Jane Pauley with NBC News, Dateline; served as a public relations intern with VH1 and as a production intern with ABC News Channel 13 in West Palm Beach, FL. She served as senior editor and associate producer with CBS News, Channel 12, West Palm Beach, from 1997 - 1998 and as associate producer of CBS News, Channel 7, WSPA, Greenville, SC, from 1998 - 1999. She was self-employed as an etiquette and international protocol advisor from 2002 - 2005, holding seminars for children and young adults to create a foundation of good manners and leadership skills for the generations of tomorrow. She also was an agency owner for HMA Incorporated, The Juliana Collezione, from 2004 - 2005.

From 2005 until her return to Greenwood from Bluffton in 2007, she was a full-time mother to her son, Jace, who was the light of her life. Earlier this year, she joined her brother, Jay, at Greenwood Mills, working with Single Source Apparel, a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenwood Mills.

Elizabeth served as a member of the Self Family Foundation’s “Next Generation” Board, was active in fundraising efforts for the Humane Society in both Greenwood and Hilton Head Island and was a member of First Baptist Church.

Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 2008, at St. Paul United Methodist Church. Interment will follow in Chesterfield Cemetery.

Visitation is 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the funeral home.

Mr. Griffith was born April 21, 1958, in Monroe, NC, a son of Robert H. “Bobby” and Betty Dalrymple Griffith. He was a 1976 graduate of Chesterfield High School and was owner of Robert’s Rib. Robert was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church and Chesterfield Service Club. He was a member of the National Rifle Association, National Wild Turkey Federation, and Ducks Unlimited. Robert was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting, fishing and spending time with his family in the mountains.

Survivors: wife: Melanie Miller Griffith of the home; 2 sons: Daniel Griffith and Jared White, both of Chesterfield, SC; 4 daughters: Haley Christine Griffith, Abigail Suzette Griffith and Madison Claire Griffith, all of the home, and Shelly Suzanne White (Gerald) Catoe of Pageland, SC; parents: Bobby and Betty Griffith of Chesterfield, SC; 2 brothers: Richard J. “Dick” (Ellen) Griffith of Chesterfield, SC, and Russell W. (Laura) Griffith of Fairfield, CT; 1 grandchild: Kallie Suzanne Catoe; also 3 nieces: Dee, Sarah and Emily Griffith.

«Obituary posted: April 23, 2008»

Don passed away Tuesday, April 22, 2008. He had retired from the United States Navy and South Carolina Employment Security Commission.

Surviving are his wife, Bernice Armstrong; his children, Melinda Daughtry, Darryl Wayne Armstrong, Donna Sease and Burke Armstrong; his stepchildren, Carmen Burkhalter, Carol Farmer and David E. Scott; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Also surviving is his brother, Darryl Armstrong.

A memorial may be made to Epworth Children’s Home, 2900 Millwood Ave., Columbia, SC 29205 or to Grace Baptist Church, 416 Denham, Ave., West Columbia, SC 29169.

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