Each night when they pray, 5-year-old Olivia and almost 3-year-old Sydney Jackson call him "the baby out there." (More)

You don't have to be rich or even married to adopt a child from the State of South Carolina. (More)

During a Supreme Court hearing last week, U.S. Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre argued that if the Federal Communications Commission were not allowed to do its job, society as we know it would crumble. "The extreme example (is) of Big Bird dropping the f-bomb on 'Sesame Street'" he said. (More)

Barack Obama has specific family ties with the Luo tribe, whose members in 1994, said Ethnologue.com, numbered 3,185,000 in Kenya and 280,000 in Tanzania.e Luo people are also known as Dholuo and Nilotic Kavrirondo and are the third-largest ethnic group in Kenya (13 percent of the population, according to the CIA World Factbook). (More)

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Charging 50 cents for a glimpse of a sea cow on St. Helena Island in the 1940s and working from “can see to can’t see” were a way of life for the six children of the late Hilda Smith Gay and John “Buster” Henry Gay Sr. (More)

An Island Benefit to cover medical expenses for Robert Gaycq, who is battling cancer, is from1 to 6 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Sheriff's Camp, Chowan Creek Bluff on Distant Island. (More)

Growing up in North Carolina -- where snow is not a complete stranger, more like a friend who visits a couple of times a year -- if the weatherman said we might be getting a dusting of the white stuff, it meant a run on the grocery store, the revving up of the salt trucks and general chaos for all involved. (More)

Garlic, crosses and daylight are banes to vampires. Another would be two other timely deadlines that delayed this column at Halloween. But if you listened closely Oct. 31, you heard the music of the creatures of the night. (More)

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Growing up in North Carolina -- where snow is not a complete stranger, more like a friend who visits a couple of times a year -- if the weatherman said we might be getting a dusting of the white stuff, it meant a run on the grocery store, the revving up of the salt trucks and general chaos for all involved. (More)

Noel Seeburg can't recall the exact nature of the argument, but the discussion would come to shape the relationship he has had with his wife of nearly 60 years. (More)

I can't remember when my wife first told me she was a conservative, but it might have been the day we met ... right in between her favorite color and her first pet. I know I told her I was a journalist, and she probably just assumed the rest. (More)

Biden, McCain, Obama, Palin. Which other names are on your mind this Sunday morning before Election Day? (More)

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Robert "Bob" R. and Diane Patterson, of Lady's Island, announce the engagement of their daughter, Christine Mary Patterson, to Adam Clinton Jezewski, a son of Brian E. and Pam Jezewski, of Beaufort. (More)

Debbie and William Burns Tindal, of Bishopville, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Erin Tindal, to Thaddeus Matthew Bailey IV, a son of Thaddeus Bailey III, of Okatie, and Nancy Crosby, of Ridgeland. (More)

Ashley Nicole Milburn, of Beaufort, and U.S. Naval Petty Officer First Class Jeremy William Smith, of Fife Lake, Mich., were married at 4 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Carteret Street United Methodist Church in Beaufort. (More)

Alison Dempsey of Woodfin, N.C., and Brad Barham of Aden, N.C., were married in an outdoor ceremony Saturday, Oct. 11, in Weaverville, N.C. (More)

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Last year as the Today's Woman section approached, my boss and I decided to shake things up a bit and ask our readers to nominate business women in the community they wanted to salute. I was overwhelmed by the response. This year we decided to open it up to all women: professionals, volunteers, stay-at-home moms, and just about any woman who has made a difference in the Beaufort community. (More)

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Sparks fly as Ray Lynwood Polin grinds metal for rooftops and sanders. Drills and air guns grunt and groan, keeping up air pressure as he smooths rough wood salvaged from a shrimp trawler featured in the movie, "The Prince of Tides." (More)