South Carolina News

South Carolina is missing out on an additional $100 million in federal stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits, and it will be months before jobless residents see the money, if at all.

South Carolina needs to take a tougher stand to keep new beachfront development from moving closer to the ocean, according to a report requested by the state's environmental agency.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 12:08 a.m. An uneventful meeting Monday night in Atlantic Beach was coming to a close without much mention of suspended Mayor Retha Pierce.

A photo simulation made as part of a South Carolina utility's research into wind power shows large wind turbines would barely be visible if built eight miles off the state's coast.

A report requested by South Carolina's environmental agency says the state needs to take a tougher stand to keep new beachfront development from moving closer to the ocean.

One person was treated at a hospital after a chloroform spill at a South Carolina law firm.

I doubt if I have ever drawn a cartoon that didn't upset somebody. It goes with the territory.

A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.

A South Carolina woman who pleaded guilty to killing her husband's teenage girlfriend is expected to be sentenced.

Some of the Midlands' other major grocers - Wal-Mart, Pig-gly Wiggly, Bi-Lo and Publix - said they do not carry the tainted meat.

The president of a South Carolina textile service company says its Greenville facility will close Dec.

Congressman Don Young released a statement Thursday expressing disappointment that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be based at Eielson Air Force Base.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is part of a new effort to find common ground on climate change legislation.

Federal authorities say 21 people have been charged for their roles in cockfighting businesses operating in South Carolina.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., both sons of the segregated South, grew up in parts of South Carolina that were much farther apart than the mere 175 miles between them.

South Carolina, trying to curb abuse of narcotics and save money, is requiring Medicaid patients suspected of doctor-hopping for drugs to choose one pharmacy for all of their prescriptions.

Environmental issues are taking center stage in the race to run South Carolina. Five Democrats and five Republicans who want to be governor started their Tuesday night debate in Orangeburg by discussing the environment.

Authorities say a 42-year-old man who walked away from a minimum-security South Carolina prison turned himself in a day later in North Carolina.

Gov. Mark Sanford no doubt hopes that the successful wooing of a Boeing jet assembly line by the state will bolster his image as a can-do governor.

What's in a name? A lot if you're seeking a legal career, with a U.S. study finding that women with male names are more successful lawyers and judges than those with more traditional, feminine names.