South Carolina AP Reporter Jim Davenport Dies at 54

Posted: 12/31/2012  |  By: Jeffrey Collins | Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jim Davenport, an Associated Press reporter who worked doggedly to inform people in South Carolina about what their governors, lawmakers and other powerful officials were doing with their tax money and their influence, died Monday, according to his wife, Debra. He was 54. Davenport died after battling cancer for two years