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Travelers boarding flights at Columbia Metropolitan Airport soon will pass through a new $150,000 full-body scanner installed this week at the airport’s security checkpoint. Poll inside: Are less-invasive scanners a good idea?
Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year.
China's central bank will lower the ratio of funds that banks must hold as reserves in a move that frees tens of billions of dollars for lending and aims to help spur slowing economic growth.
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said Saturday that it has raised wages by up to 25 percent in the second major salary hike in less than two years, as the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer comes under intensive scrutiny after a spate of suicides.
Although we live in an Internet age where 97 percent of Americans look online for local products and services, more than half of all small businesses in South Carolina don’t have their own website – and surprisingly, that is better than the national average.
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Gamecock baseball’s interlocking SC logo is gaining on football’s block C.
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Robert A. Bates is now president and chief executive officer of Southern Mutual Church Insurance Co. Bates has worked in the commercial insurance industry for more than 27 years and has been the firm’s executive vice president for the past 11 years. The company has more than 7,800 policyholders in the Southeast.
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Young people want their music, TV and movies now - even if it means they get these things illegally.
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Bank of America's chief executive is taking a pay cut.
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The CEO of Boeing said the latest problem with its new 787 will not slow production.
A British student who stole sensitive information from Facebook's internal network was sentenced to eight months in prison Friday in what prosecutors described as the most serious case of social media hacking ever brought before the country's courts.
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