(1/3) Powers Properties files thousands of eviction notices in SC courts, including in the Columbia area. Many face eviction month after month. “I think they take advantage of people.” #longread#readlocalthestate.com/news/state/sou…
(2/3) The day his father died in June, Rodrickus Oakes owed his landlord $230 in additional fees for his Columbia-area apartment. So Powers Properties did what it regularly does to its tenants who are late on rent across SC: filed an eviction notice. thestate.com/news/state/sou…
(3/3) “In our situation we were really taken advantage of and we were in a predicament where we were in the palm of their hand," Sterling Hogan said. Watch their story here: thestate.com/news/local/art…
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It’s been 2,965 days since freelance journalist and #MarineCorps veteran Austin Tice disappeared at a checkpoint outside of Damascus, Syria. #FreeAustinTice.
“Every second he stays in captivity cuts a deeper wound in the hearts of my family," his brother Jacob writes, calling on all of us to help: thestate.com/opinion/articl…
We stand with our free press allies and the Tice family in calling for his release. We are asking you, our readers and followers, to join us in this campaign to bring Austin home by Thanksgiving.
Sandra Priester, Willie Mae Wright and Randy Spires are 3 of the more than 700 #SC residents who lost their lives to the #coronavirus. They were know for loving - loving their family, friends and strangers. Here's how they're remembered. (1/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…
“You could be a stranger on the street and say you were hungry and didn’t have a place to stay, and she would take you in. She didn’t care who you were.” (2/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…
When Willie Mae went to the hospital after falling in the tub, her family thought they’d bring her home after she recovered. They had to say their final goodbyes over the phone. (3/5) thestate.com/news/coronavir…