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 | Maersk Line, in a potentially staggering blow for the Port of Charleston and the South Carolina economy, followed through Thursday on a threat to pull of all its business from the local waterfront. The Denmark-based company, which is the port's biggest customer, said it would phase out all operations in Charleston over the next two years because it was unable to reach a cost-saving arrangement. | ||||
| Black, white Santas draw some criticism Students at St. Stephen Elementary School found out last week that Santa Claus can have the same skin color as them. That's because two Santa Clauses â€" one white, one black â€" were invited to the rural Berkeley County school at separate times last Friday to take pictures with students of the same skin color. Student gets 15 years on terrorism chargeBerkeley County Sheriff Wayne DeWitt felt vindicated Thursday when he learned that a Florida college student his department arrested in Goose Creek last year on explosives charges had been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The routine traffic stop in August 2007 uncovered a trunk full of bomb-making materials and led to terrorism-related charges against Ahmed Mohamed. Crime spree brings 35 years in prisonA man who confessed to a four-county crime spree that included shooting a companion in the head and leaving her body to be run over on a North Charleston railroad track was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday. Dale Warsop's guilty plea to 14 criminal offenses led to a sentence of less than life behind bars. Otherwise, Warsop, 31, could have clogged courts from Charleston to Lancaster County if he sought multiple trials, largely for armed robbery cases. Blind father overwhelmed by medical billsLeon, 35, is legally blind because of retinitis pigmentosa. As a single parent, he does his best to raise three children ages 8, 13 and 17. Until recently, the family struggled to get by without health insurance. Although Leon now receives Medicaid benefits, medical expenses have caused him to fall behind on his mortgage payments. He is now facing a possible foreclosure.  | ||||
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