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The noble Atlantic Sturgeon, an ancient fish capable of living in both salt and sea waters, receives scant praise and precious little attention from most South Carolinians.

CHARLESTON, S.C. The South Carolina Forestry Commission issued a Red Flag Fire Alert for all counties within its Pee Dee and Coastal regions, effective at 7:00 p.m. Saturday night.

A new Winthrop Poll confirms what most people who spend any time in the Palmetto State already know: South Carolinians are unabashedly religious, largely evangelical and armed with a strong belief that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

A South Carolina garden's goal of creating the world's largest collection of ancient camellias is a bit closer with the addition of about 200 ancient varieties in recent years, including about 100 brought from Europe in recent months.

Authorities are searching woods in the Francis Marion National Forest for a missing 30-year-old Mount Pleasant woman after her SUV was found burned nearby.

South Carolina health officials say they haven't been notified about a shipment of medical waste that a Latin American news website reported was on its way to Charleston.

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Charleston-area residents are getting a chance to see where South Carolina took shape for a reduced price this weekend.

Brothers Henry and Chai Eang opened their first Basil restaurant in Charleston a decade ago and have added locations in Charlotte and Mount Pleasant.

Marilyn DeWitt Altman, S.C. state regent, left, and Prosperity resident Susan Saunders greet Tommy Murphy, right, at marking ceremony.

Cougars basketball heats up on Saturday as the Cougars play the Wildcats in SoCon action.

Elizabeth City's Ricky Braddy competed in American Idol's "wild card" round before he was voted off the show.

A North Carolina teenager was caught on a hidden camera stuffing cotton wool from a soft toy down her child's throat in an attempt to suffocate her.

PURE Theater has a special post-Valentine's Day event in the works. On Wed. Feb. 15, indie pop singer/songwriter Steve Fiore will present his "Valentine's Day Hangover" show at 8 p.m. Fiore recently signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing.

Just in case you forgot, every February Poogan's Porch rolls back their menu pricing to 1978, an anniversary year marked by one of Charleston's most hauntingly delectable restaurants.

The State Infrastructure Bank voted unanimously on Thursday to spend $88 million on Charleston's planned improvement of the Septima P. Clark Expressway, a stretch of U.S. Highway 17 also known as the Crosstown.

You may have to pay more money to park in city-owned parking spaces because of a proposal lawmakers inserted into the state budget on Thursday.

Last month, Jeff Blackard of the McKinney-based Blackard Group went undercover in South Carolina as a walk-in Santorum volunteer.

Charleston's already-underway harbor deepening project got another boost Wednesday, with the release of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Work Plan for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2012.

While S.C. Senators bicker and argue over who should run the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control , a much larger story involving this agency has gone completely unreported by the state's mainstream media.