Jeffrey Collins
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Reporter for The Associated Press in Columbia, S.C. Love to tell a story. Married to Special Ed teacher @MandeyCollins. Father of 2. [email protected]
Columbia, S.C.
Joined April 2009
RT @SweeperPod: 🇱🇸🇿🇦 Lesotho v. South Africa remains the only competitive international football fixture involving a country & another coun….
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Before Nikki Haley, Jr.’s dad was the last Clemson grad to be SC governor. And here is the Thurmond’s family breaking ground with George HW Bush on the institute that carries his name at that school in the Upstate.
This week, I appointed Strom Thurmond, Jr. to fill a vacancy on the @UofSC Board of Trustees. He is a distinguished attorney in Aiken, a Carolina undergrad and law school graduate, a former U.S. Attorney and served as 2nd Circuit Solicitor for a decade, running unopposed every.
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I’m willing to at least entertain an argument this was the pinnacle of the 80s, pop culture, musical collaboration — whatever point needs to be made.
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As a SC judge considers whether Steven Bixby is competent to be executed, the man who killed 2 officers in the 2003 Abbeville standoff sent his own handwritten legal brief. “I am an innocent man!! Let freedom ring & let those committing treason swing!!!”
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A judge is considering whether delusional beliefs about the legal system are enough to prevent a South Carolina prisoner from being executed.
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RT @QuirkyResearch: The Houston Oilers' Eugene Seale was ejected after the opening kickoff against the Raiders in 1989. .
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RT @QuirkyResearch: That was the fastest ejection in an NFL game since 2005, when Jeremiah Trotter and Kevin Mathis were ejected for fighti….
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RT @OptaJoe: 2-0 - Slovakia 2-0 Germany is only the second time Germany have lost a World Cup qualifier by more than one goal - the other w….
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South Carolina's top lawyers agree that the state's six weeks of paid family leave should apply to stillbirths too after at least three districts balked at leave after a baby isn't born alive
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South Carolina's top attorneys say family leave after childbirth should include at least six weeks of paid leave for stillbirths. Republican Rep.
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RT @makseminera: popping in to say today was my first day in my new reporting role on @AP’s education team. This is a beat I’ve loved hel….
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RT @babowling12: Always have one camera running a timelapse, and another to shoot stills. 🤠. 36.9N 10:07p. 📍Lebanon, VA .
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RT @Billy_Ch4os: The Aurora exploded behind a dragon looking cloud! Taken at 10:16pm in Barker NY. 43N
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The whole depth chart thing is a little funnier now.
Good evening from Chapel Hill, where Bill Belichick is making his college coaching debut at UNC against TCU. A look at Belichick's depth chart for tonight:
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RT @JoshDubowAP: Bill Belichick is down by 34 points in his first game as a college head coach. He trailed a game by 34+ 4 times in 511 reg….
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RT @SickosCommittee: He’s not upset at UNC, just disappointed.
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RT @ADavidHaleJoint: Fun fact: UNC has gone 22 straight drives dating back to last year's NC State game without converting a third-down try….
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I just keep thinking that Venus was a star back on the square TVs.
Venus Williams is back in the women’s doubles quarterfinals @usopen. She and Leylah Fernandez are 3-0 and haven’t lost a set and Venus wants sister Serena to “show up!”.
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