By Andy Paras, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Dec. 28--WALTERBORO -- Despite a five-month legal dispute over alternative financing, the Colleton County School district beat a Dec. 31 deadline designed to ban the controversial borrowing method once and for all.

By Andy Paras, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Sep. 7--WALTERBORO -- The stakes just got higher between Colleton County School Board and taxpayer groups. The pot was already $90 million of taxpayer money. But the price of poker just went up.

By Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Feb. 11--EDISTO BEACH -- In the waves, the CRAB looks like a crow's nest sailing above a sunken ship. On land, the buggy has a way of catching the eye -- all three 35-foot-long legs of it.