SPORTS Duke advances in NCAA Tourney on Sunday B1 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2019 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Governor slams school board on THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump waves after speak- ing with the media after stepping off Ma- rine One on the South Lawn of the White MuellerHouse on Sunday in Washington. recent actions finds no McMaster: Appeal, school reopening ‘going to cost us’ BY KAYLA ROBINS Club on Monday afternoon, said the governor said. “We can’t have that.”
[email protected] possibility of the school district not McMaster addressed a range of reaching one month’s operating ex- topics Monday, from the sale of San- Trump The governor of South Carolina penditures by the end of June next tee Cooper to the statewide educa- joined the list of officials who have year is “unacceptable.” tion reform bill to the state’s techni- condemned recent decisions by the “When you have businesses com- cal college system, but he spent the Sumter school board to reopen ing to locate here … when you have most time answering one question Mayewood Middle School and alter Shaw Air Force Base and [U.S. from Greg Thompson, CEO of collusion financial recovery plans submitted Army] Central Command … We Thompson Construction Group Inc., to the state last summer. have people coming here in the mili- chairman of the Sumter Economic Gov. Henry McMaster, in answer- tary, and if they face that kind of BY ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO, ing questions at the Sumter Rotary statistic, that’s going to cost us,” the SEE McMASTER, PAGE A4 CHAD DAY and JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence Presi- dent Donald Trump’s campaign “con- Curating cosplay at Patriot Hall spired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.