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Bang!
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11 p.m.
   Spectators watch fireworks at the Riverwalk last year Photo: Matthew Craig/Staff
Wait - don't pick up that library book! Before you head to the Richmond County Library, check out our list of holiday closings and Independence Day events. Then, check out this travel information, these patriotic Web sites and the not-so-evident truths about Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Finally, don't forget to stay safe this Fourth of July. It's all part of our holiday guide.
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No asbestos
found at Seminole Mill
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11:30 p.m.
CLEARWATER, S.C. - Tests of steel beams removed from the
abandoned Seminole Mill last week showed no signs of asbestos
contamination, state regulators said Wednesday. However, Goldberg Brothers
Inc. will still have to hire an
abatement team to
decontaminate all of its equipment before it can be removed from
the former textile plant.
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Where did the chicken go?
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 7 p.m.
AIKEN - Caveat emptor poultrium!
That is: ``Let the buyer beware of stolen chicken.''
A trailer that had held 52,000 pounds of frozen chicken drumsticks
was found empty near Aiken Tuesday after being stolen in North
Charleston last Thursday.
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Traveler pleads not guilty
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 6 p.m.
DECATUR, Ga. - Dressed in an orange jump suit from the
county jail, an Irish Traveler from Murphy Village sat quietly on a
courtroom bench as his attorney entered a plea of not guilty to
charges that his client defrauded elderly people in roof repair
scams.
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Features

Super Summer
keep kids busy
Web-posted July 3,1996 at 7 p.m.
AIKEN - The halls of North Aiken Elementary School resounded with the sounds of a poet, a retired bank
executive and about 200 children.
Part summer school, part camp, Super Summer '96 targets children of
low-income housing and financially at-risk families, providing a
cultural, learning, and above all, fun experience. Learn more about it and other summer activites for youngsters in our Kids section.
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Truths about Jefferson not so self-evident
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11:30 p.m.
To Thomas Jefferson, these truths were not ``self-evident''; they
were ``sacred and undeniable.''
And if he had gotten his way, America would have condemned
slavery instead of bowing to delegates from Southern states.
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Sports
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Columbia Bombers explode in 8th to bury Jackets
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11:45 p.m. COLUMBIA - Capital City erupted for five runs in the bottom of
the eighth inning in defeated the Augusta GreenJackets 6-2 at
Capital City Stadium Wednesday.
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Computers & Technology
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NBC provides
Olympics live online
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 7 p.m.
Much of the information
NBC will deliver during the Olympics will also appear on the
network's World Wide Web site.
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NASA unveils new spaceship
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 4:30 p.m.
NASA unveiled the design for America's first new spaceship in
a generation Tuesday, a reusable, wedge-shaped craft called
VentureStar that would take off and land almost as easily as an
airplane and open space to more people.
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