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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Starting this week, the federal government is distributing 400 million N95 masks to retail pharmacies and health centers around the country.
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If the House does not concur with the Senate map, then a smaller group of Senate and House members would form a conference committee, which would be tasked with coming up with a compromise to send to the governor.
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South Carolina is getting a big boost for bridges.
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Some snow-covered roads remained slick Monday, as South Carolina Department of Transportation plows and crews worked to keep priority highways and interstates clear and to start clear secondary roads, with a long holiday weekend for many lending an assist in that effort.
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The state Senate and House have been working on drawing this new congressional map on separate and parallel tracks, with each having formed a subcommittee that has taken public input and held hearings for testimony on this process, continuing through this week.
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Lawmakers want to make a major change to South Carolina’s healthcare system that they say will make care more affordable and accessible.
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On the second day of the 2022 legislative session, lawmakers took up a controversial education bill that would give families money from the state for their children to attend private schools.
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State lawmakers are back to work in Columbia, beginning their 2022 legislative session Tuesday afternoon.
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State lawmakers will tackle a stacked to-do list when they return to Columbia next week for their regular legislative session, starting Tuesday.
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Nearly 800,000 boosters and third doses have been administered so far in South Carolina, and that number is expected to rise with another group becoming eligible to receive the additional shot.
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As public health agencies, like the South Carolina Department of Health and Environment Control, work to boost vaccination numbers in the state, they are turning to community groups for help.
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As South Carolina’s redistricting process moves closer to completion, staff from the state House of Representatives and Senate have drawn up drafts for their respective members to consider as they work toward developing South Carolina’s new Congressional map.
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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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When the state Senate and House of Representatives return to Columbia in two weeks for their regular legislative session, a major item on their agenda will be determining how to spend billions of dollars in pandemic relief.
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The redistricting process that determines how each South Carolinian is represented on Capitol Hill continues along as lawmakers work out the final map that needs to be redrawn.
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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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The South Carolina Department of Education presented the findings from its review into how districts select books for their school libraries on Tuesday.
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The committee made its recommendations Monday for Education Improvement Act funding, from the state’s one-cent sale tax that specifically supports public education.
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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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H.3126, sponsored by more than 30 Republicans, passed in a 67-31 vote largely along party lines and now heads to the Senate, where leaders have said they are unlikely to return to Columbia until they reconvene for the start of their regular legislative session in January.
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The pandemic has shown how critical emergency medical services are across the country. But in South Carolina and most other states, EMS is not classified as an “essential service,” as law enforcement and fire services are.
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South Carolina’s economy is expected to be fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic next year. That’s according to the state’s 2022 Economic Outlook report from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, released Tuesday.
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For the first time in months, both the South Carolina House of Representatives and Senate were in session in Columbia on Monday as the state’s redistricting process continues.
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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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The House of Representatives passed its new map Thursday in Columbia, updating the boundaries for the state’s 124 House districts.
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South Carolina’s attorney general said more lawsuits could be coming if the state decides to challenge other pandemic-related actions from the Biden administration. To this point, South Carolina has already joined other states to file three lawsuits challenging federal vaccine requirements
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South Carolina’s teacher shortage has worsened in the last year, with more than a thousand teaching jobs unfilled at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year across the state.
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Each year, Americans collectively donate hundreds of billions of dollars to charity, with much of that giving during the holiday season, according to the National Philanthropic Trust.With the season of giving now underway, Secretary of State Mark Hammond is advising South Carolinians, “Give from the heart, but please give smart.”
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Booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine are now recommended for everyone 18 and older after the CDC signed off on the booster eligibility expansion late last week.
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AAA is forecasting this year’s Thanksgiving travel period will be nearly as busy as it was before the pandemic, after a sizable slowdown last year. The auto club expects about 678,000 cars will be on South Carolina roads from Wednesday through Sunday, up from 617,000 cars in 2020 and just a 1% decrease from 2019′s total.
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The South Carolina Department of Education is now reviewing how districts pick which books are included in school libraries and will offer guidance to them on selecting books and what to do if someone complains.
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As the holiday season approaches, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is encouraging South Carolinians to take precautions against COVID-19 before and as they celebrate, citing spikes in cases following previous holidays throughout the pandemic.
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That map now awaits final approval from the entire House of Representatives, then Gov. Henry McMaster’s signature, to become law for the next 10 years.
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The U.S. inflation rate has surged to its highest year-to-year rise since 1990, the Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
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More than $6 billion will head to South Carolina over a five-year period as part of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by the House late last week, according to the White House.
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South Carolina’s teachers say they are dealing with a “crisis,” a critical shortage of teachers across the state. At the beginning of last year, a report found there were nearly 700 open teaching positions in South Carolina.
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State leaders argued in May that the move was necessary to curb South Carolina’s labor shortage.
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DHEC says it supports CDC’s approval for children ages 5 to 11, urges parents to get them vaccinated
DHEC has announced its support of the CDC’s sign-off on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, and is urging South Carolina parents to get their children vaccinated.
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DHEC says it supports CDC’s approval for children ages 5 to 11, urges parents to get them vaccinated
DHEC has announced its support of the CDC’s approval for children aged 5 to 11 and is urging SC parents to get their children vaccinated.
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If local first responders are overwhelmed with an emergency or disaster, they call in South Carolina’s urban search and rescue team.
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A Columbia employment law attorney said Americans should be prepared to start hearing more about fights brewing between states and the federal government over vaccine mandates.
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Gov. Henry McMaster proposed a half-billion-dollar spending plan Thursday to improve the state’s sewers, stormwater, and water systems.
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The heat reached a boiling point in June, when workers at the Broad River Road Complex in Columbia, the DJJ’s long-term facility, walked off the job over concerns about safety, low pay, and long hours.
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The state reports more than 17,000 children are enrolled in the SC Voucher program, through which parents can receive assistance to pay for childcare.
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The state reports more than 17,000 children are enrolled in the SC Voucher program, through which parents can receive assistance to pay for childcare. Parents must be working or attending school or training to quality for the voucher program.
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Starting Friday, fully vaccinated Americans can receive a COVID booster shot of their choosing.
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The redistricting process was initially delayed because data from the U.S. Census, which is used to determine districts, was released later than usual because of the pandemic.
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Leading South Carolina Republican lawmakers are dismissing allegations they’re taking too long to draw new congressional and legislative districts.
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The federal government is warning South Carolina that it may take over enforcing workplace safety across the state, and Gov. Henry McMaster responded that the state will fight any attempt to do so.
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Graham visited the U.S.-Mexico border at Yuma, Arizona, last week and spoke with reporters about his trip Monday.