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The most important update to the smoke alarm safety standards (known as the UL 217, 8th edition), which went into effect in 2024, means that new alarms are better at detecting both smoldering and ...
A Lugoff man is dead after deputies with the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office said he was shot at a home that was “booby-trapped.” A teacher at an Irmo charter school was charged with molesting ...