'); } -->
On Wednesday, when a woods fire sparked off of S.C. 31, Horry County officials blasted out at least half a dozen alerts in less than two hours. Residents of a nearby subdivision were told turn on sprinklers, and as the fire's potential threat grew, officials expanded the message to most of Carolina Forest using a 911 system.
In honor of the Fourth of July holiday, we reprint the beginning of the document it celebrates -- an enduring expression of human rights.
No S.C. stores were included in an initial list of grocers that sold beef from a Colorado company potentially tainted with E. coli bacteria, according to documents released by federal regulators Thursday.