Billionaire’s Club Seeks SC “Sanctuary”

According to WCBD TV 2 (NBC – Charleston, S.C.) several of America’s most famous billionaires gathered in South Carolina’s lovely Lowcountry this weekend for a conference organized by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.
Gates (net worth: $67 billion) rented out the entire Sanctuary Hotel on Kiawah Island, the station reports. Reportedly joining him and [...]

Lance Armstrong Confesses

DISGRACED CYCLIST FINALLY COMES CLEAN
Six months after his career was wiped out by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) – and four months after the Union Cycliste International (UCI) stripped him of his seven Tour de France victories – disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong finally admitted using performance enhancing drugs.
In a yet-to-be-televised interview the Oprah Winfrey, [...]

Shaquan Duley Gets 35 Years

We don’t cover much criminal news, but the case of Shaquan Duley continues to draw national attention.
Duley is the Orangeburg, S.C. woman who suffocated her two children – 2-year-old Devean C. Duley and 18-month-old Ja’van T. Duley – and then staged a crash scene on a bridge over the Edisto River in August 2010.
Earlier this [...]

The “Post” – 1/6/2011

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of the “post,” our daily assemblage of links worth looking at …
We’ve still got reports to come on S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford’s tax proposals and the 2011-12 S.C. House of Representatives agenda (both of which were released today), so stay tuned for those …
As usual, if you’ve got a link that [...]

Haley To Oprah: Talk To The Hand

We weren’t aware that S.C. Gov.-elect Nikki Haley had been sworn in yet, but apparently she’s already calling the shots on behalf of South Carolina’s cabinet agencies.
Specifically, Haley is declining a request from media magnate Oprah Winfrey to interview Susan Smith – the Union County woman who murdered her two children in 1994. The Smith [...]