Mary Green
Reporter
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Mary Green reports for the KCRG-TV9 News at 10 p.m. — though you might also catch her at 4, 5, or 6, depending on the day.
Before moving to eastern Iowa, Mary started her career as a multimedia journalist at WFXL in Albany, Georgia, where she covered local government, tornadoes, hurricanes, and even a bit of snow.
Despite being born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Mary is no stranger to the Midwest. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame and loves to cheer on the Irish!
If you see Mary and her dog, a beagle named Chris Bosh, around town, please say hi! You can also reach her at Mary.Green@kcrg.com, or through Facebook or Twitter.
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South Carolina leaders hope this new law, which Republican Gov. Henry McMaster commemoratively signed just minutes away from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter County on Wednesday, encourages more veterans to stay in the state once they retire from their service.
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Members of the General Assembly voted Wednesday to advance the spending plan.
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The decision “will likely have significant consequences” between the Senate and the House and hopefully “cooler heads can prevail.”
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A proposal to give South Carolina families state dollars to send their children to private schools is up for debate at the State House.
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The controversial “Save Women’s Sports Act” is now closer to becoming law in South Carolina than it has ever been.
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South Carolina lawmakers now have less than three months to change the state’s law on sex offenders, and if they don’t, all of the more than 17,000 registered sex offenders in the state could apply at that point to be taken off the registry.
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There’s a major push at the State House right now to cut income taxes in South Carolina, with Republican leaders and the governor looking to get it signed into law in the next few months.
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People rallied outside the South Carolina State House on Thursday morning, voicing their opposition to two abortion bills under the General Assembly’s consideration.
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Debate continued for a second day at the State House on Thursday on a bill to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina.
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Graham said he believes the US needs to sanction Putin and Russia immediately instead of waiting until after an invasion.
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The state typically averages up to 20 quakes annually, according to the South Carolina Emergency Management Division.
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The interim president of South Carolina State University said the college is preparing for a historic visit from President Joe Biden on Friday.
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“I was trying to reach the most amount of people and change the world,” SummerBelle Fair said.
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Millions of Americans rely on insulin every day to manage diabetes, but some report having to spend hundreds of dollars a month on this essential prescription.
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“We’re probably going to run out of trees in early December,” Bryan Price of Price’s Christmas Tree Farm said. Price owns the Lexington County farm and also serves as the president of the South Carolina Christmas Tree Association, which counts around 50 farms as members, and he said many of them will likely also quickly sell out of trees this season.
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H. 4605, also known as “Freedom from ideological coercion and indoctrination,” would regulate what goes on at any entity that receives state funding, grants, or tax exemptions, including public and private schools, colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, state contractors, and private businesses.
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The book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, chronicles the LGBTQ+ life of author Maia Kobabe and is currently the top-selling LGBTQ+ graphic novel on Amazon, which describes it as a “guide on gender identity.”
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At this point, 19 states, including South Carolina, have filed four lawsuits against the federal government over a vaccine requirement for all federal contractors.
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Newly released results from a survey of South Carolina teachers found the pandemic is worsening their frustration and discouragement and is contributing to some of them quitting their jobs.
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Victims of cybercrimes in South Carolina have already lost more money so far this year than in all of 2020, according to the FBI.
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Weekly school reports show those interruptions have affected tens of thousands of students and staff so far this school year, which just began about a month ago.
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A labor law expert from the University of South Carolina said he expects wages and benefits will rise in response to the federal vaccine mandate that President Joe Biden announced last week.
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The 140 year old Jerusalem Baptist Church in Bishopville burnt to the ground in a fire Monday morning.
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A temporary law written in the state budget, known as a proviso, prohibits schools and districts from using state funding to enforce mask mandates, at the risk of that funding being reduced.