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Jazzed by a fourth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush opened his campaign for the next contest in South Carolina by taking repeated shots at front-runner Donald Trump. Mr. Bush accused the billionaire real estate mogul and reality TV star of being a divisive figure just like President Obama and slammed him for declaring bankruptcy four times for his business ventures. "I'm giving you a reality-based answer not a realty-TV answer," Mr. Bush told the crowd at a town hall in Bluffton, South Carolina, as he touted his record of cutting taxes, reining in spending...

A Bluffton Middle School teacher is accused of grabbing a student by his shirt collar, forcing him under a desk and telling him, "This is what the Nazis do to Jews," according to the Bluffton Police Department. Patricia Mulholland, a social studies teacher at the school, was arrested at 5:45 a.m. today and charged with third-degree assault and battery, and public disorderly conduct, according to the Beaufort County Detention Center log. Contacted today, Beaufort County School District spokesman Jim Foster said details about the alleged incident Wednesday were not immediately available but that he expected to provide information later in...

It is wrong when anyone dies. It is WRONG when anyone dies because it is not their time, however we might measure such a thing. It is wrong when good young men die in any war, it is wrong when my wife's parents die in a twisted pile of metal at the hands of a drunken piece of **** on a God-forsaken stretch of NJ turnpike when she was 12. But as wrong as it is when Mr. Death reaches out his bony fingers to put us in his cold,cold pocketses, sophomore infielder David Betts of Bryan, Ohio; freshman third...