South Carolina Government News

St. John Baptist Church and the South Carolina Department of Social Services are teaming up to hand out free coupons to low-income people age 60 and older.

As crackhead Rob Ford continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, Toronto based extra-marital dating site AshleyMadison.com hoped to cash in on all the hoopla surrounding their disgraced mayor.

South Carolina's left-leaning State Senate took a few baby steps toward real reform this week - approving tax credits for private school teachers who purchase their own school supplies and creating tax-exempt scholarship granting organizations for students with special needs.

The State Law Enforcement Division says Russell Clark Johnson was arrested Thursday and charged with threatening the life of a public employee and unlawful use of a telephone.

S.C. drivers will score the cheapest gas prices in the nation this Memorial Day weekend.

Do you want to live in a society where children as young as four and five are being indoctrinated by the Obama agenda? If not, then we must stop the "Republican" education budget in South Carolina before it's too late.

For those of you who haven't been reading our recent wire posts , there was a big story in Governing magazine this week about the sorry state of South Carolina's pension fund.

Signaling progress toward saving area drinking water wells, Georgia has placed a moratorium on new groundwater pumping from the Floridan Aquifer.

One thing seems almost certain here in South Carolina: Lawmakers all too often fail to fully grasp or appreciate how changes they make in one part of the law affect other areas of it.

South Carolina senators have defeated an attempt to help parents pay for private school tuition or educate them at home through the state budget.

The South Carolina Drug Card is free and accepted at all major pharmacies, including CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, BI-LO, Kmart, Fred's, Ingles, Kerr, Longs, Target and Walmart.

AAA Carolinas is expecting an estimated 443,550 South Carolina motorists to make road trips this Memorial Day weekend.

Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pauses as he announces that he will resign from the United States House of Representatives during a news conference in Brooklyn, New York, in June 2011.

Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday that she and her two children were very happy to have S.C. first gentleman Michael Haley home on a two-week leave from his year-long state National Guard deployment in Afghanistan.

You couldn’t tell that by the way people are jumping on the bandwagon as Gov.

With the victory of disgraced former governor Mark Sanford in the recent South Carolina congressional race, there are bound to be those who would equate his supporters with Bill Clinton's. After all, both men were unfaithful to their wives.

A House committee's proposal for better securing South Carolina taxpayers' personal data would create a new computer technology agency that reports to the governor.

Governor Haley will be holding a press conference this morning and attached is a document to help you decode the Governor's real position on ethics since her actions tell a far different story than her words.

A First Coast couple trying to adopt a child from South Carolina say they feel like their baby has been taken from them by the system.

The jobless rate in South Carolina fell to eight percent, the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce said Friday.