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...North Carolina Military Murders Authorities discovered the body of Army nurse 2nd Lieut. Holley Wimunc in the woods near Camp Lejeune on July 13--the third female soldier murdered in North Carolina this year. Her husband Marine Cpl. John Wimunc was charged on July 15 in her killing. He is due back in court in August...
Officials in South Carolina have replaced southern hospitality with southern hostility following an advertising campaign that featured posters declaring, "South Carolina...
...several gay-friendly U.S. destinations. In the week leading up to the British capital's gay pride parade on July 5, the agency placed 60 posters along escalators in London's Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations, which serve Soho, the city's gay hub. The South Carolina poster features a generic image of a plantation, and hyped the state's antebellum architecture, golf courses and gay beaches...
...South Carolina State Senator David Thomas, a Republican, publicly condemned the campaign after reading about it on The Palmetto Scoop, a South Carolina political blog. He also called for an audit of the tourism department's advertising budget, which in 2008 will run to approximately $10 million...
...South Carolina may in fact be "gayer" than many suspect. Andrew Roberts, CEO of Amro Worldwide, visited South Carolina after the state's tourism board expressed interest in the campaign, and says he toured several gay venues, including largely gay sections of mainstream beaches, in Charleston, Hilton Head Island and Myrtle Beach. "A few people in South Carolina need to wake up to what's going on in their state," he says. "There are more gay bars along that coastal strip than there are in Vegas...