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Historically Black colleges issue lockdown orders, cancel classes after receiving threats
Read full article: Historically Black colleges issue lockdown orders, cancel classes after receiving threatsAt least six historically Black colleges and universities received threats or “potential” threats Thursday, prompting lockdowns and class cancellations.
Parents want more warnings after a brain-eating amoeba killed their son on a South Carolina lake
Read full article: Parents want more warnings after a brain-eating amoeba killed their son on a South Carolina lakeTwo weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.
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South Carolina House passes bill banning most abortions
Read full article: South Carolina House passes bill banning most abortionsBlack members of the South Carolina House walk out as an abortion bill is debated on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 in Columbia, S.C. The House is expected to pass the bill that would ban nearly all abortions and send it to the governor's desk. Republicans gained three seats in the 2020 elections and the newly energized 30-16 Republican majority made the proposal Senate Bill No. “This is the greatest pro-life bill this state has ever passed,” said Republican Rep. David Hiott of Pickens. AdNumerous Republican lawmakers spoke in favor of the bill and many cheered after the vote.