Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

As SC county is set to approve new data center, Lowcountry residents prepare for a fight Colleton County officials are weighing whether to approve new data center southeast of downtown Walterboro. The project is facing scrutiny from neighbors.

Weeks after county council voted to make data center approvals subject to a single vote, Colleton County residents are gearing up for a fight against a data center upstream of the ACE basin.

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A wealthy Isle of Palms man accused of having a seawall built illegally on the beach at his home must tear out the wall, a judge ruled in an order that supports the state’s right to protect beaches from encroaching development.

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Bluffton’s ‘Lucky’ rescue: Stranded dolphin saved by firefighters, marine experts The approximately 8-foot dolphin was believed to have swam into a shallow lagoon during last week’s heavy rainstorms, according to the Bluffton Township Fire District.

Sometimes working in local news means your Monday starts with a dolphin stuck in a drainage ditch. amp.islandpacket.com/news/local/c...

I made a number of trips to Daufuskie Island for this story on coastal erosion and its effects on the island’s tight knit community. Thank you to everyone who shared their story with me!

Researchers are terrified of Trump’s freeze on science. The rest of us should be, too. Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.

It's been a week, and the vibes are bleak. Or, in the words of one NIH senior scientist I heard from, "fucking scary."

I walked through the whirlwind of NIH-related chaos for @vox.com:

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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As Ice Coverage of Lakes Decreases, Scientists Work to Understand What Happens Under Water in Winter - Inside Climate News New research into under-ice conditions is challenging what limnologists thought they understood about lakes’ winter behavior.

As Ice Coverage of Lakes Decreases, Scientists Work to Understand What Happens Under Water in Winter insideclimatenews.org/news/0311202...
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