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Inmate Uprising
Web-posted July 8, 1996 at 9 p.m.


  Cpl. W.A. McAlhaney of the South Carolina Highway Patrol leaves the grounds of the Allendale Correctional Institution after quelling an inmate uprising Monday morning.
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FAIRFAX, S.C. - Internal affairs investigators from the state Department of Corrections will return to the Allendale Correctional Institution today to try and determine what caused an uprising of about 300 inmates Monday.The revolt started at 7:30 a.m. when a fight broke out between two men in a group of about 250 prisoners headed to a work detail, authorities said

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New docks leave
river race high and dry

Web-posted
July 8, 1996 at 11 p.m.

River Race Augusta will likely be no more - at least not on the Savannah River. Faced with the planned construction of 75 docks along the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, race organizers are scheduled to decide today whether they will cancel the annual powerboat race or move it to a new location.


Features
Democrat and Republican ties The ties have it
Web-posted July 8,
1996 at 11 p.m.

A tie poll may be one of the more unusual indicators of a presidential election, but the Mark, Fore & Strike Necktie Poll has at least been rather accurate. Every election year since 1952, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based direct mail and retail clothing company conducts an unofficial poll to forecast the winner of the presidential election, based on national sales of competing elephant and donkey design neckties.

The birds and bees aren't enough
Web-posted July 8, 1996 at 11:25 p.m.
WASHINGTON - Telling teen-agers what birds and bees do is no longer good enough. Today's teens want to know why and how, according to a national survey of teen-agers released in June.


Sports
Barkley show steals Dream Team thunder
Web-posted July 8, 1996 at 11:25 p.m.
PHOENIX - It's strictly coincidence that Charles Barkley gets into off-the-court scrapes in Olympic years. Barkley arrived in Phoenix in 1992 just recently acquitted of battery and disorderly conduct charges in Milwaukee. The primary topics of discussion after a Dream Team practice Monday were his involvement in a brawl last weekend and his demands to be traded.


Computers & Technology

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Jaz up computer
storage capacity
Web-posted July 8, 1996 at 6 p.m.
Iomega recently introduced the Jaz Drive. One Jaz cartridge stores one full gigabyte and the Jaz Drive is as fast as most of today's speedy, fixed, hard-disk drives.


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