That’s because nearly all state money has been cut for a $1.3 million specialized medical program that helps identify victims and deals with their abusers.

The need for child abuse medical expertise is so crucial that six years ago, four of South Carolina’s children’s hospitals got a $1.1 million grant from the Duke Endowment to set up a network of experts trained to evaluate such cases.

But the state Department of Health and Human Services, which took over funding in 2007, axed most of the money in December, after it was forced to make nearly $137 million in state-mandated cuts, roughly 15 percent of its total budget.

Child abuse is ranked second, behind asthma, as the most chronic childhood condition in South Carolina, said Maggie Michael, executive director of a nonprofit collaborative of the major state children’s hospitals.

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Unemployed South Carolinians

The state with the third-highest unemployment rate — and climbing — will get more unemployment benefits. The S.C. Employment Security Commission says it needs to borrow more than $300 million to pay unemployment claims, as the unemployment rolls have more than doubled to more than 125,000. South Carolina is set to get $557 million for unemployment.

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The other is a governor and former congressman known for sleeping on his couch in Washington and bringing pigs to the state Capitol to protest what he saw as pork-barrel spending.

Jim DeMint and Mark Sanford are major political players in South Carolina, but they have been blips on the national political screen.

Until now.

Both men were among the most vocal and prominent opponents of the federal stimulus package that President Barack Obama could sign into law as soon as Monday. And both men are positioned to continue to oppose what they see as the big-government tendencies of the new president.

The modified bill passed the House earlier Friday without support from any Republicans despite revisions that added tax cuts and reduced the plan’s overall cost.

House Budget Committee chairman John Spratt joined 245 other Democrats in voting for legislation that melded separate bills the House and Senate passed earlier.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of Columbia played a key role in reshaping the package, but he left before the vote to fly to Columbia for his daughter’s wedding Friday evening.

South Carolina’s four Republican representatives voted against the measure, along with 179 other GOP lawmakers.

"There are days you don't know what to say and these are one of these days," said Pastor David Uth, who offered a "prayer of peace" for Casey Anthony, who was in the Orange County Jail less than a mile away, facing a first-degree murder charge. She has pleaded not guilty and claims a baby sitter kidnapped Caylee.

Images of the girl, who was 2 when she disappeared, flashed on a giant screen in front of the First Baptist Church of Orlando sanctuary as a pianist played, "You Are My Sunshine" and "If You're Happy and You Know It." A video montage of her jumping on a bed and dressed like an Easter bunny ended the service.

Casey Anthony could have asked for permission to watch the memorial broadcast live on TV but didn't, according to jail officials. The 22-year-old said in a statement read by her attorney that she missed Caylee "every day and every minute of every day."

Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy, who arranged the public service, urged mourners to support their daughter.

The Detroit-based automaker said Tuesday it will reduce its total number of white-collar workers by 14 percent to 63,000. About 3,400, or 12 percent, of GM's 29,500 salaried U.S. jobs will be eliminated.

Most of the company's remaining salaried employees will have their wages cut.

In its plan to Congress submitted late last year, GM said it would have to reduce both salaried and hourly positions so that the company could become viable long-term. The company plans to reduce its total U.S. work force from 96,537 people in 2008 to between 65,000 and 75,000 in 2012, but did not specify how many of the surviving jobs will be salaried or hourly.

GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, who was meeting with congressional leaders in Washington about global warming legislation, said Tuesday's announcement is "indicative of the kind of things we need to do to get this viability plan in shape and respond to these tough market conditions."