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Jocelyn Jennings Nelson says a vigil and service are happening Thursday for her grandson, Amir Jennings.

Shot and killed during a traffic stop. She is believed to be the first female officer killed in the line of duty in state history.

A new poll by Winthrop University confirms what most 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.

On May 24, 1772, William Moultrie took a break from surveying the South Carolina-North Carolina border to visit little Charlotte Town, which he described as having five or six houses, "very ordinary built of logs." Nearly 240 years later, Charlotte has a few more houses.

It's what came next that has authorities at South Carolina's State Law Enforcement Division scratching their heads.

Due to the freeze already hitting the Columbia area tonight that is expected to hold through most of the morning, South Carolina officials have delayed the start of Sunday's action at the Palmetto Classic by an hour until 11 a.m. The first game between Tennessee State and Western Kentucky now begins at 11 a.m. South Carolina and Cleveland State ... (more)

The man once tasked with hunting down A illegal gaming A machines in South Carolina is now among those A defending the use of new devices A whose legality is yet to be A determined.

The department of mass communication at Grambling State University is in rarefied company, being the smallest program in the country selected for the $50,000 Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor Program grant.

The Arkansas Lottery Commission picked Bishop Woosley, the lottery's chief legal counsel, to be the state's new lottery director.

By an almost 2-to-1 margin or 59 to 32 percent, South Carolinians surveyed in the latest Winthrop Poll believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, while only 46 percent said the same for South Carolina.

On May 24, 1772, William Moultrie took a break from surveying the South Carolina-North Carolina border to visit little Charlotte Town, which he described as having five or six houses, "very ordinary built of logs." Nearly 240 years later, Charlotte has a few more houses.

OLUMBIA, S.C. The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees has approved several contracts for coaches in the Athletics Department, it was announced today.

Gov. Nikki Haley met privately Friday with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to discuss a troubled $5 billion port project in Jasper County, but their session failed to resolve an impasse between the states that threatens to kill the ambitious proposal.

According to local Idaho station KBOI , Bank of America has been telling credit rating agencies that South Carolina family man Arthur Livingston is dead for the past 3 years.

Until now, we thought this campaign would be all about the economy. It still will - but 'values' voters are going to count, too No wonder the Republicans have lost their way.

The woman said she pleaded with the masked man as he held a gun to her body, told her to strip and forced her to lie on her bed.

PENSION REFORM: Public workers would have to work two years longer, but they won't have to turn 62 to retire with full benefits under tweaks made to a House panel's draft for shoring up the state's pension system.

South Carolina joined the testing organization ACT for their workforce initiative to improve job skills of those unemployed in the state.

Two of South Carolina's top legislators will not have to discuss their debate over redrawing the state's new U.S. House districts.

Daily Times Carla Whitlock speaks to the Human Resources Association about Apprenticeship Carolina, which is a division of the South Carolina Technical College System.