The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky.
In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused.
Lowe's home improvement stores are offering a special 10 percent discount to military personnel and retirees over the Veterans Day holiday.
The National Park Service is letting the public get an up-close look at a lighthouse with an open house at Charleston Light on Sullivans Island.
Phil Mickelson won the HSBC Champions on Sunday by rallying against a familiar foe. Only it wasn't Tiger Woods. Mickelson made an 18-footer to save par on the 16th after whiffing on a flop shot, then holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 17th to close with a 3-under 69 and overcome a late charge by Ernie Els, who was in the lead until hitting into the water and making bogey on the final hole.
Julio Jones left defenders grasping at his heels and Alabama's defense was typically immovable. The Crimson Tide is riding that combination to the SEC championship game for the second consecutive season.
Jim Carrey's Scrooge is collecting holiday donations from movie fans with a $31 million opening weekend to take the No. 1 spot with his new take on "A Christmas Carol."
Launching its comeback in perilous financial times, the New York City Opera might well have played it safe with a surefire crowd-pleaser, like its production of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."

A company is seeking state permission to construct a 35-megawatt, wood biomass-fired electrical power generator in the John Matthews Industrial Park.
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South Carolina’s sawmills have been burning wood residue for years because it provides a cheaper form of energy for internal use, Orangeburg County Clemson Extension Service agent Beth Richardson says.
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The wood biomass-fired electrical power generation facility proposed for the John Matthews Industrial Park at U.S. 301 and Highway 176 would use a “bubbling fluidized boiler” process.
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AIKEN — A soldier who grew up in South Carolina had to wait five hours to see her husband, who was wounded in Thursday’s rampage on Fort Hood, even though she was on the base, her mother said.
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