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But the justices in a 3-2 vote denied claims by the state Department of Transportation that the agency wasn’t required to install cable median barriers at the crash site before the Jan. 4, 2000, wreck.

Deborah Giannini was killed when a car she was driving was struck by a Ford Expedition that had hydroplaned on wet I-77 between the Boyden Arbor overpass and Percival Road and crossed the center median.

Tracey Golden and Roderic Bradley — two occupants in another car that was struck by the SUV — were seriously injured in the crash.

Golden, Bradley and the family of Giannini later sued the Department of Transportation, and a Richland County jury returned verdicts of $1.5 million to the Giannini estate, $745,000 to Golden and $645,000 to Bradley.

The $315,490 fountain, which includes $36,900 in public money, opened in time for the St. Patrick’s Day festival in March. But the Five Points Association didn’t like the defects in the brick so they had them replaced, said board member Richard Burts.

The newest fountain on Saluda Street complements the traditional fountain near Greene Street.

“It’s interesting how people have kind of latched on to the Five Points fountain,” Burts said. “We feel like the best way to market and advertise Five Points is through beautification projects.”

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Judy Gail Spell, the former 911 communications director, said she was sexually harassed from Oct. 1, 2005 through Feb. 10, 2006 and was forced to resign after she reported it.

Austin denied Spell’s allegations and said Monday he passed a lie detector test administered by the State Law Enforcement Division, which he said he volunteered to take as part of the city’s investigation. A SLED spokeswoman could not confirm that Monday night.

City officials said Monday they also offered Spell the opportunity to take a lie detector test, but she declined.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, also names the city of Columbia and Allison Baker, Spell’s direct supervisor and one of four assistant city managers who reports directly to Austin.

The S.C. Department of Transportation was liable for not installing cable median barriers at an I-77 location in Columbia before a 2000 fatal crossover crash there, the state’s top court said Monday.

“There had been several crossover accidents within two miles of this accident in which two people had been killed; the accidents had been publicized by the local media,” Supreme Court Justice John Waller wrote for the majority. “This is not a claim of defective construction but, rather, one of failure to take corrective action.”

But the court also upheld a trial judge’s decision limiting a jury verdict to a total of $600,000 in a civil case stemming from the wreck Jan. 4, 2000.

Department of Transportation spokesman Pete Poore said Monday afternoon he was not aware of the ruling and couldn’t comment until agency attorneys had the chance to review it.

Pastor Phillip Miles of Christ Community Church will likely be set free today. Arrested in February after bringing a box of 300-caliber hunting ammunition through Russian customs, he was sentenced in April to three years in prison. On Monday, he won an appeal to the Moscow City Court.

Miles, who listened to the decision from jail via videolink, spread his arms wide and said “Hallelujah!” as the translator explained the ruling.

The pastor, who has been in jail since Feb. 3, will likely be allowed to leave Russia after the completion of the necessary formalities, his lawyer said.

“We don’t know what changed their minds, and we may never know,” said Dominic Starr, Miles’ stateside lawyer, and family and church spokesman. “His wife and his children are relieved and they are excited to see him ... It’s been a long, hard ordeal and the church and the family are excited that it will be over soon.”

An attorney for Randy Page, who heads South Carolinians for Responsible Government but who sued Lexington 1 as an individual taxpayer, says his client will ask the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling released Monday.

“We believe the panel simply got it wrong,” Kevin Hall said. “In doing so, the court ignored its own precedents, and we intend to petition the full court for (a) review to correct the panel’s mistake.”

David Duff, Lexington 1’s attorney, said, “It’s important that government be permitted to speak. This decision ultimately fosters the democratic process.

“The whole suit, frankly, was intended to chill the advocacy of school districts — aside from the legal issues,” Duff said.

WASHINGTON — The military buildup in Iraq is about to end.

As the last of the five additional combat brigades now heads home, it leaves the country far safer than it was a year ago. Yet Iraq still is not ready to stand alone.

The departure of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division will lower U.S. troop levels there to roughly 142,000 U.S. personnel by mid-July — at least 7,000 more than before the buildup began early last year. But it also sets up pivotal questions about how many more can come home in this election year and whether the decline in violence can be maintained by the fledgling Iraqi security forces.

Two reports released Monday laid out significant political, economic and security progress in Iraq. But both cautioned the country remains unstable and volatile.

Superintendent Steve Hefner said Monday that’s the amount he will recommend tonight when he asks the seven-member school board to give final approval to the bond measure.

Board chairman Steve Shellenberg favors that figure and believes his colleagues do as well.

If voters give the OK, property taxes in Northeast Richland will go up to repay the debt. For the owner of a house with an assessed value of $100,000, that translates into an additional $108 a year.

The Richland 2 board has been wrestling for months about a strategy to keep pace with an annual enrollment growth that now tops 1,100 new students.

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Art Day at the State Museum will feature hands-on activities for little ones, including painting, origami, collage, crayon batik (a method of dying fabric or paper, which uses removable wax to protect the parts of the material that are not intended to be dyed), printmaking, geometric art and more.

Children can see these artistic techniques demonstrated and get inspired by the “S.C. State Museum 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition,” which is on display in the Lipscomb Gallery through Sept. 7.

Art Day activities are free with museum admission or membership.

The museum is at 301 Gervais St. and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

“A tooty-ta, a tooty-ta, a tooty-ta-ta,” she sang while standing in a circle with 25 other kindergarten teachers echoing the lyrics. “Thumbs up. Elbows back. Feet apart. Knees together. Bottoms up. Tongue out. Eyes shut. Turn around.”

The song teaches students about sequencing and is part of a lesson on patterns. It’s also part of the new curriculum for Beaufort County schools, called “Everyday Math,” which is being applied districtwide next school year.

Local teachers were learning the new methods Monday at the Beaufort County School District’s Summer Institute, a weeklong program that offers classes and credits for teachers working toward re-certification.

The institute was initiated locally by superintendent Valerie Truesdale for the first time this year. About 700 teachers are taking a variety of classes in writing, math, science, technology, foreign language, music and student success. The teachers can take as many or as few classes as they like. They are paid $100 a day and earn credits toward state certification, which is required to be updated every five years.

The 54-year-old, who was traveling at a high rate of speed, was not wearing a seat belt during the 10:35 a.m. accident and died at the scene, a Lexington County coroner’s office news release said.

Authorities are not releasing his name, pending notification of next of kin.

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Two masked men robbed the Kangaroo Express convenience store on Royal Tower Drive in Irmo early Monday, police said.

Wilbur Hardee founded the Hardee’s restaurant chain in 1960, but he didn’t stop there. The entrepreneur also launched a host of lesser-known eateries in his home state of North Carolina, such as Biscuit Town, Hot Dog City and Beef and Shake.

But even decades after leaving the franchise that still bears his name, Hardee couldn’t hide his pride when he passed a location and its marquee that bore his name.

“He considered Hardee’s his little child,” said Ann Hardee Riggs, Hardee’s 60-year-old daughter.

Hardee died Friday, at the age of 89, in Greenville, N.C., the same town where he opened his first Hardee’s location, giving birth to a hamburger franchise that is now a division of St. Louis-based CKE Restaurants Inc. Hardee’s has grown to include 1,900 locations across the Midwest and Southeast and 200 international locations.

Tybee, a 10-year-old rough-coat Jack Russell terrier, has lymphoma, a cancer that affects his immune system.

But in six months of treatment, he’s missed only one day of work.

In a touch of irony, Tybee is one of five dogs registered by Therapy Dogs International Inc. that volunteers at Beaufort Memorial Hospital visiting sick patients.

“(Having cancer) really hasn’t affected him except the big treatments, which make him nauseous,” said his owner, Kathy Maschka.

Sunday that place was the Columbia Museum of Art during the S.C. Irish Arts Weekend.

“I’ve always wanted to play the harp,” said Christie, who took her first lesson at a Celtic music festival in Ontario, Canada, after retiring as a music professor three years ago.

She hasn’t been able to find anyone locally who teaches Irish harp.

Stories like that are one reason Andi Hearn started the arts weekend festival two years ago.

They will return to Columbia Wednesday to take up 20 vetoes by Gov. Mark Sanford. They also will consider 10 more bills in conference committees, where House and Senate lawmakers are working to settle their differences before sending the proposals to Sanford for his signature.

Among the proposals that could become law:

• A bill that would provide tax incentives to businesses to install fire sprinklers in new construction. Sanford vetoed the bill. But it still could become law if two-thirds of the House and Senate vote to override the governor’s veto.

• A bill in conference committee that would add some accused child abusers to the Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect.

County Council, faced with rising fuel and employee insurance costs, is expected to give final approval Tuesday to a 7 percent budget increase for its new fiscal year, which begins July 1.

That budget includes a raise for county employees, a new bulldozer and one new sheriff’s deputy, but no other new offerings.

If the budget is approved, residents in owner-occupied homes would pay roughly $31.60 more than last year on their property valued at $100,000.

That amount is on top of another $80 toward school debt in 2008-09. But the bill could be even higher for some categories of property owners, including those with rental properties.

Two men died after they were ejected from a 1993 Subaru early Saturday morning on Cheraw Road, northeast of Camden in Kershaw County.

Macdaleno Sanchez, 18, and Lauro Hernendez Sanchez, age unknown, died at the scene, Kershaw County Coroner Johnny Fellers said.

The wreck happened at 3:35 a.m. Saturday in Cassatt when the driver of the Subaru ran off the right side of the road, overcorrected, overturned and struck several trees.

Lance Cpl. Jeff Gaskins with the state Highway Patrol said alcohol and speed are believed to be factors in the crash. The speed limit on Cheraw Road is 55 mph.

The case — pitting 36 of South Carolina’s poorest school systems against the state Legislature — has thrust the term “minimally adequate education” into the national spotlight, attracting interest from education advocates and presidential candidates alike.

Yet that attention, along with millions in legal fees and 15 years in state courts, has not resolved the issue.

Lawyers representing plaintiff districts want the high court to tell the Legislature that schools in poor, rural areas need more state help to put students on the same academic footing as peers in wealthier districts.

The Supreme Court initially ruled in April 1999 that the state government’s money distribution policy — based on such factors as enrollment, a student’s age and academic prowess — treats school districts fairly.

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Lexington voting officials are gearing up for an increase in turnout for Tuesday’s runoff between a well-known state senator and a challenger backed by Gov. Mark Sanford.

State Sen. Jake Knotts, R-Lexington, is trying to fend off Katrina Shealy in a race that has seen dueling television commercials from U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, who backs Knotts, and Sanford, who supports Shealy.

Typically, turnout is low for a primary and lower still for a runoff. But Dean Creps, director of registration and voting in Lexington County, said he thinks voters might reverse that trend Tuesday.

Voter turnout in Lexington County’s June 10 primaries was 18 percent. Creps said he thinks that could edge up to 24 percent for the runoff.

The phone banks, the shoe leather campaigning and the expensive ads culminate today in an intense Senate race in Lexington County.

Incumbent Jake Knotts said Monday the race again Katrina Shealy has been the toughest of the six he has fought in the Legislature.

Shealy, the county’s immediate-past Republican Party chairwoman, nearly matched Knotts’ vote total in the June 10 primary.

Still, Knotts said he will prevail over third-party money pouring in to defeat a controversial political figure viewed as a symbol of the best or worst of Lexington County.

A paparazzo trying to photograph Matthew McConaughey at the beach in Malibu, Calif., told police he was attacked by a mob of surfers who threw his camera in the ocean.

The 29-year-old photojournalist told sheriff’s deputies that a large group of surfers near Paradise Cove approached him and other paparazzi about 2 p.m. Saturday and demanded the group stop taking pictures and filming.

“There was apparently a fight, and the photographer gave a statement that he received injuries,” Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday. Detectives are investigating, he said.

McConaughey was not involved in the attack, authorities said. A call to McConaughey’s publicist was not immediately returned.

The findings, revealed Monday in a survey of 35,000 adults, can either be taken as a positive sign of growing religious tolerance, or disturbing evidence that Americans dismiss or don’t know fundamental teachings of their own faiths.

Among the more startling numbers in the survey, conducted last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: 57 percent of evangelical church attenders said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life, in conflict with traditional evangelical teaching.

In all, 70 percent of Americans with a religious affiliation shared that view, and 68 percent said there is more than one true way to interpret the teachings of their own religion.

“The survey shows religion in America is, indeed, 3,000 miles wide and only three inches deep,” said D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist of religion.

The tax agency said the optional standard rate to calculate deductible operating costs for business vehicles will rise from 50.5 cents a mile to 58.5 cents for the final six months of 2008.

That rate also applies to businesses and others entitled to depreciation allowances that operate automobiles for charitable, medical or moving purposes.

“Rising gas prices are having a major impact on individual Americans,” said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. “Given the increase in prices, the IRS is adjusting the standard mileage rates to better reflect the real cost of operating an automobile.”

Shulman, in an interview, said the agency has been keeping an eye on gas prices since 2005 when there was a spike in prices following Hurricane Katrina. He said officials wanted to get the guidance out on the new rate so businesses can do midyear adjustments on July 1.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s opposition leader took refuge in the Dutch Embassy after pulling out of the presidential runoff, and dozens of his supporters were hustled away by police in a raid on party headquarters Monday.

U.N. Security Council members unanimously condemned Zimbabwe’s government Monday, saying it has waged a “campaign of violence” that has made it impossible to hold a fair presidential election.

Despite the international condemnation, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Friday’s vote.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai returned to Zimbabwe a month ago to campaign, despite warnings by his Movement for Democratic Change party that he was the target of a state-sponsored assassination plot.

The issue has split federal appeals courts and could become increasingly important as women who took maternity leaves in the 1960s and ’70s approach retirement.

Their pregnancies occurred before the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which was enacted in 1979 and barred companies from treating pregnancy leaves differently from other disability leaves. Since then, maternity leave has been credited toward retirement.

The case before the court involves four AT&T Corp. employees who each took at least one maternity leave between 1968 and 1976. They have 67 to 261 days of uncredited leave because their pregnancies occurred before the law changed.

A closely divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that time should count in determining pensions.

People in a dozen precincts north of Columbia can vote in the runoff between Gwendolyn Davis Kennedy and Kiba Anderson.

Only those who voted in the Democratic primary or those who didn’t vote at all June 10, are eligible to cast ballots in the runoff.

Each candidate hopes to succeed Joe McEachern, who is running for higher office. The seat, representing communities along the I-77 corridor, hasn’t been available for a decade.

Kennedy, 61, is a retired teacher who served on the council from 1992-97. Voters showed her the door after she took a junket to Hawaii.

Today, voters will determine which of those two will compete in the fall for the seat of retiring Republican Rep. Bill Cotty: the more conservative Few or the more moderate Herndon. The winner faces Democrat Anton Gunn in November.

Why it’s important: For 12 years, House District 79 has supported Cotty, a moderate Republican who looked out for public schools while discouraging big developments like the Village at Sandhill because of the traffic it would bring.

Ironically, those quality schools in Northeast Richland and West Wateree fueled a population boom that is stretching the area’s infrastructure, like roads, to a breaking point.

Key issues: Both Herndon and Few are small business owners with ties to the Kershaw County Republican party who differ on:

In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry and even eggs, cheese and milk are expected to get more expensive as livestock owners go out of business or are forced to slaughter more cattle, hogs, turkeys and chickens to cope with rocketing costs for corn-based animal feed.

The floods engulfed an estimated 2 million or more acres of corn and soybean fields in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and other key growing states, sending world grain prices skyward on fears of a substantially smaller corn crop. The government will give a partial idea of how many corn acres were lost before the end of the month, but experts say the effect could be more dramatic later this year, affecting everything from Thanksgiving turkeys to Christmas hams.

Rod Brenneman, president and chief executive of Seaboard Foods, a pork supplier in Shawnee Mission, Kan., that produces 4 million hogs a year, said high corn costs already were forcing producers in his industry to cut back on the number of animals they raise.

“There’s definitely liquidation of livestock happening,” and that will cause meat prices to rise later this year and into 2009, said Brenneman, who also is vice chairman of the American Meat Institute.

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Manila’s DZBB radio said the survivors, 20 male passengers, four women and four crewmen, drifted at sea for more than 24 hours wearing their life jackets, reaching Mulanay township in eastern Quezon province late Sunday. Coast guard chief Vice Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo announced early today that they had been found, raising the total number of survivors to 38. All were discovered after making it to land.

Tamayo said rescuers might have to bore a hole in the ship to allow divers access to an area where many aboard the ferry were believed to have been trapped. The ship carried more than 740 passengers and crew.

Rescuers hoped to get inside with U.S. assistance requested by the Philippine Red Cross. Typhoon Fengshen has killed at least 163 people across the sprawling archipelago, setting off landslides and floods and knocking out electricity.

— The Associated Press

For now, the current “oil shock” leaves Western countries with little choice but to move toward nuclear power and change their energy-consumption habits, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned at a rare meeting of oil-producing and consuming nations.

Saudi Arabia — the world’s top crude exporter — called the gathering Sunday to send a message that it, too, is concerned by high oil prices inflicting economic pain worldwide.

Instead, the meeting highlighted the sharp disagreement between producers like Saudi Arabia and consuming countries like Britain and the United States over the core factors driving steep price hikes. Oil closed Friday near $135 a barrel — almost double the price a year ago.

The cost of gasoline also has become a sore point in the U.S. presidential race, with President Bush and presumed Republican nominee John McCain calling on Congress to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has said such moves will do nothing to ease American consumers’ pain short-term.

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors face a daunting task. Syrian officials are expected to place strict limits on where they go and what they see during their three-day visit.

Still, IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen spoke optimistically of the mission’s chances before boarding the flight to Damascus on Sunday, saying he and his two-man mission hoped to start to “establish the facts this evening.”

Syrian authorities have placed strict constraints on media reporting on the visit, and there was no official word by Sunday evening out of the Arab nation whether the delegation had arrived.

Despite the low-key nature of the visit, the stakes are immense.

At issue: Lawmakers passed a bill giving tax credits to builders or owners who install fire sprinklers. The bill was inspired by the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters and seven S.C. college students last year.

The sticking point: Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed the bill, arguing taxpayers would be footing the bill for developers and owners.

Likely outcome: Legislators will likely override the governor.

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The six-member panel has labored for weeks over the issue but says it is committed to putting it to rest before July. Today is the district’s last scheduled meeting in June.

At the center of the debate is whether a gay-straight alliance should be allowed at Irmo High School. Principal Eddie Walker issued a statement in May saying he plans to resign in a year because his values conflict with the club.

The school board will decide whether non-curricular clubs need more stringent rules or if they should be eliminated completely.

The board also could decide the hoopla was unwarranted and leave everything as it was. That would allow the gay-straight alliance, and any other non-curricular club, to operate as it would have.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unveiled new additions to its Red to Blue program last week — targeting GOP seats Democrats hope to win — but South Carolina’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts were not on the list.

Democrats hold two of South Carolina’s six congressional seats. The Democratic incumbents, Jim Clyburn in the 6th District and John Spratt in the 5th, are favored to win re-election.

Republicans say it makes no sense for national Democrats to spend money and time trying to win additional congressional seats in South Carolina. But local Democrats said the Democratic congressional committee could send support later.

“We’re just now starting the process,” said Lachlan McIntosh, spokesman for 2nd District Democratic candidate Rob Miller. “We feel great about our chances.”

Dr. Shaw died Sunday, June 22, 2008. Born September 17, 1913, in Highpoint, N.C., he was the youngest of 5 children of the late Claude Coble and Mattie Emma Killen Shaw. He was valedictorian of his high school class in 1931. Dr. Shaw graduated from USC pre-med in 1934 and the Medical University of the State of S.C. (now known as MUSC) with his M.D. degree in 1938. He interned at Emory University’s Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., in 1938-1939 and returned to Camden, S.C., in late 1939 to begin the practice of general medicine. Dr. Shaw was an active member of Kershaw County Memorial Hospital and served ten years on the Kershaw County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees. He was instrumental in establishing and was a devoted member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Camden. Dr. Shaw was a U.S. Army Medical Corps World War II veteran, having served in the European Theatre and reaching the rank of major.

Surviving are his children, F. Grayson Shaw, II and wife, Susan Cutter Shaw and Linda Shaw Lupold and husband, H.M. Lupold, Sr.; 4 grandchildren, Mrs. Amy Lupold Westbury and husband, Michael, Mr. Grayson Coble Shaw, Elizabeth Shaw Montgomery and husband, Michael, and Sally Shaw Baker and husband, Bill; 5 great-grandchildren, Madison and Grace Montgomery, Emily, Charlotte and Harrison Baker. Dr. Shaw was predeceased by his wife, Lillian Ann Hegler Shaw; grandson, H.M. Lupold, Jr., and all siblings.

Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.

Please sign the online register book at ww.kornegayfuneral.com.

Mr. Roof is survived by a daughter, Janet Roof of Virginia. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Surviving are her daughter, Debra Green; sisters, Ruth Pelzer, Mary Washington and Martha Rivers.

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Mrs. Clark, wife of the late William Mahlon Clark, died Monday, June 23, 2008. Born in Fair Play, S.C., she was a daughter of the late William Clayton and Kate Harris Mays. Mrs. Clark graduated from Winthrop University in 1943, after which she received a Master’s in Education from the University of South Carolina. After more than 45 years in public education, she retired from Seven Oaks Elementary School as principal. She was an active member at First Baptist Church and most recently was a member of Covenant Sunday School Class.

Surviving are sons and daughters-in-law, Barry W. Clark and Judy of Lexington, and Douglas M. Clark and Kim of Augusta, Ga.; brothers and sisters-in-law, Harry B. Mays and Frances of Fair Play, W. Clayton Mays and Martha of High Point, N.C.; sister and brother-in-law, Euna M. Cope and Gerald of Orlando, Fla.; and grandchildren, Megan C. Hayward and her husband, Richard E., IV, B. William Clark, Jr., Kirsten L. McCrary and Robert E. McCrary, IV. She was predeceased by two sisters, Lillian M. Miller and Edith M. Keasler; and a brother, Lane E. Mays.

Please sign the online guest book at www.dunbarfunerals.com.

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Bostick-Tompkins Funeral Home, 2930 Colonial Drive, is in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Wilson-Davenport died June 30, 2008. Born in Columbia, he was the son of Calvin Davenport III and Earleen Y. Wilson. He was educated in the public schools of Richland County and a former employee of Jan-Pro Janitorial Services.

Surviving are his mother, Earleen Wilson; father, Calvin (Yolanda) Davenport; brothers, Ronald Wilson and Calvin Davenport IV; grandparents, Helen Grant and Dorothy Davenport; two uncles; six aunts; cousins and other loving relatives and dear friends, all of whom will miss him dearly.

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The family has entrusted J.P. Holley Funeral Home with final arrangements.

Mr. Armstrong died Friday, June 20, 2008. Born in Augusta, he was the son of Albert Armstrong, Sr. and the late Ethel Armstrong Smith. He was a member of St. Phillips Holiness Church in Olar and retired from Fort Jackson NCO Club as a chef.

Mr. Armstrong is survived by his son, Hunafa (Monica) Armstrong, Bluffton, SC; father, Albert (Ida) Armstrong; sisters, Valerie Armstrong Parrish, LaJoyce Jacobs, Lydia Greenway, Loretta Hairston, Ttreon Bush and Millie Armstrong; brothers, Joseph Locklear, Carvee Armstrong; two grandchildren; nieces, nephews and a host of loving relatives and dear friends.

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After her graduation she started her career at the same hospital. After a couple of years she moved to Muscat, Oman, and served Nizwa Hospital for over 6 years. She was considered a loyal, hardworking and charming employee.

During this period she married Shiby Varghese, Thuruthummel, on January 14, 2002, and they started their life together in God. They were blessed with a baby boy, Colin Shiby, October 1, 2004.

After her stint in Muscat she moved to South Carolina, December 12, 2005, and started working for Palmetto Baptist Hospital in February 2006. But God’s plan was different. He had a bigger plan which was way above the thoughts of the human brain. On the way to work June 20, 2008, she met with a road accident and accepted God’s call to the final home.

Funeral services will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Life Church International. Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Irmo/St. Andrews Chapel, is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the church at 1046 Harbor Drive, West Columbia, SC 29169.

A former member of the South Carolina National Guard, he served as Planetarium director for the Columbia Museum of Art, was associated with the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at USC and served as curator of Collections for the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum from which he retired. Many Columbians remember his appearing regularly on the Mr. Knozit Show with exciting and interesting artifacts in the fields of science and astronomy.

An avid reader, gardener, and traveler, his real love was of history and science. He lived abroad some of the early years of his childhood and later traveled many times to such places as Egypt, China, Japan and Antarctica.

Mr. Craft was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Jazz Society, South Carolina Genealogical Society, the University of South Carolinian Society, South Carolina Archeological Society and the Palmetto Club. Mr. Craft had resided at Still Hopes, Episcopal Retirement Community.

He is survived by his wife, Dottie Watkins Lloyd Craft; three step-daughters, Dotsy Lloyd Boineau (Trippett), Furman Lloyd Edmonds (Bruce) and Fran Owens Lloyd; stepson, Kay Arnold Lloyd (Georgia); two stepgranddaughters, Elizabeth Lloyd Boineau (Jeffery Christopher Lapham) and DeVeaux Boineau Palmer (Clarke, II); four stepgrandsons, Robert Trippett Boineau, Jr. (Margaret), Bruce Carter Edmonds, Jr. (Mary Alice), Creighton Woolworth Edmonds and Donald Russell Lloyd; two stepgreat-granddaughters, Emily DeVeaux Palmer and Gambrell Leigh Edmonds; and five stepgreat-grandsons, Bruce Carter Edmonds, III, David Whitaker Edmonds, David Russell Lloyd, Francis Clarke Palmer, III and Andrew Robert Palmer. He was predeceased by his parents; his stepson, Bruce Carter Edmonds; stepgranddaughter, Karen Allison Lloyd; and stepgrandsons, Francis Clarke Palmer, II and Jeffery Christopher Lapham.

Mr. Norris died Sunday, June 22, 2008. Born in Lexington County, he was a son of the late Ephriam and Maggie Snelgrove Norris and was a retired carpenter. He was a member of St. Matthews Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Men. Mr. Norris was a member and Past Master of Batesburg-Leesville Masonic Lodge #138 and former member and Past Master of Lexington Masonic Lodge. He was a member and former Worthy Patron of the Batesburg-Leesville Eastern Star and was a member of the Scottish Rite and a life member of the York Rite.

Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Barbara Steele Norris; sons, Charles Edward (Carolyn) Norris, Ronald George (Tara) Norris and Richard Ephriam (Penni) Norris, all of Leesville, John Thomas (Angie) Norris of Pelion; brother, William K. Norris of Wallahalla; sisters, Evvie Boatwright of Leesville and Edna Knight of Chattanooga, TN; 9 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by a brother, Frank Norris, sisters, Sallie Belle Smith, Ivaleen Hallman, Eunice Gemale and Gladys Hammond.

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«Obituary posted: June 24, 2008»

Mike went to be with the Lord Saturday, June 21, 2008. Born July 22, 1965, in Columbia, he was a son of Frances D. Cheeks and the late Jackie Cheeks. A graduate of Midlands Technical College, he was employed with Gregory Electric Co. for 22 years as Service Dept. manager. Mike, an avid hunter and fisherman, was a member of Herlong Branch Hunt Club.

Mike is survived by his mother, Frances Cheeks of West Columbia; brothers, Ray (Margaret) Cheeks of Prosperity, Darrell Cheeks of West Columbia. He was a devoted and loving uncle to Meredith, Franklin, Mary Ashley and J.T. Cheeks. He is also survived by aunts and uncles, Earline and Frank Rogers, Linda and Glen Mosser, Becky and Bobby David, numerous cousins and friends. He will be tremendously missed by his loving dog, Tally.

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Mr. Kendra was born October 9, 1929, in Newark, NJ, to the late Andrew and Amelia Francisca Kendra. He passed away June 22, 2008.

Mr. Kendra was a graduate of the State University of Iowa, served in the U.S. Army, had retired from AM Int’l and was an avid golfer and member of Timberlake Golf Club. Surviving are his wife, Frances Sweeney Kendra of Chapin; brother-in-law, Sam Sweeney and his wife Patsy of Lexington; two nieces and beloved pet, Kelly, and many golfing friends and neighbors.

Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Chapin, is in charge of arrangements.

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Mr. Smith died June 23, 2008. Born February 16, 1929, in Columbia, SC, he was a son of the late Joseph Arthur Smith, Sr. and Carrie Lee Trotter Smith. Mr. Smith graduated from Columbia High School and the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of the NROTC and earned a B.S. degree in chemistry and a teacher’s certificate. He was too young to be in WWII, but he was in the Home Guard, National Guard in the Navy and Army Reserve. After his service he taught school for three years at Ridge Spring and Irmo High Schools. He then worked as a chemist for the S.C. Health Department and later with the S.C. Department of Agriculture from which he retired with 38 years of service to the state. He was a member of the Carolina Alumni Assoc., Eau Claire Lodge #344 AFM, Scottish Rite, and Jamil Temple as well as the American Chemistry Society and the State Employees Association. He played the clarinet in the high school, college, military and Shrine bands. A member and deacon emeritus of Eau Claire Presbyterian Church, Mr. Smith also liked to hunt and fish, garden and read when not raising beagles or bees.

Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Faye Gladden Smith of Laurel Crest in West Columbia; nieces, Carolyn Noland Peck and husband, Greg, Alice Noland Filteau and husband, Mark, Eleanor Noland Marra and husband Ed, Elizabeth Noland Warner and husband Greg, William Roddy Proctor and wife Andrea, James Robert Proctor and wife Teresa; and 14 great-nieces and nephews. Mr. Smith was predeceased by a sister, Carrie Smith Noland.

«Obituary posted: June 24, 2008»