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The South Carolina company that employed four workers who died following an explosion as they unloaded fireworks on North Carolina's Outer Banks had been cited for at least one previous accident.

A South Carolina sheriff says deputies are searching to find the man they believe has killed five people in a week.

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One by one, the so-called "family values" Republicans--including those considered potential 2012 presidential candidates--are falling like dominoes.

N INDICATION that Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affair wouldn't be business as usual was the absence of his wife, Jenny Sanford, from his icky news conference last week.

The death of a teenage girl who police say was the fifth victim in a week of a suspected serial killer has left the inhabitants of a small rural American community living in fear.

The two most important inputs in the negative value chain of political sex scandals have nothing to do with sex.

Like the fireworks of July 4, the Republican Party has produced some spectacular blowups this summer.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford knows what women want. Don't get me wrong. I'm not condoning his extramarital affair.

Next time some politician goes before the cameras with his figurative pants down around his metaphoric ankles and says, "I made a mistake," let's form a mob and drag him from the podium.

Sordid stories that seem plucked from the afternoon soap operas have been dominating the U.S. political landscape in recent days as Capitol Hill legislators took a breather during their Fourth of July recess.

The Lumbee Indian tribe wants to change the name of the river that winds through its ancestral lands in North Carolina.

The title says it all. I rarely rant. In fact, I almost never rant! I'm much more the calm, let's think about the opposing viewpoint type of writer and thinker.

This image originally provided June 28, 2009 by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department shows a sketch of a possible suspect in a series of recent murders in Cherokee County, S.C. Sheriff's deputies searched Friday, July 3, 2009 for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next.

Gov. Mark Sanford heavily mixed business and pleasure during a three-day trip in 2008 to Argentina to visit his lover, records released by the S.C. Department of Commerce show.

A shuttered mill in northwestern South Carolina has caught fire, spewing clouds of dense, black smoke visible for miles.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down -- throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.

What if they held an election and nobody voted? Things weren't really that bad; Tuesday's town election attracted 2,130 voters, the most in many years.

South Carolina ranks fifth in the nation in adult obesity - with 29.7% of the state's adult residents qualifying as overweight.

Forget about the quandary South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces as a result of his personal indiscretions.