South Carolina News

The North Carolina Legislature soon will consider changing the law following a Fourth of July fireworks explosion on the Outer Banks that left four workers dead.

South Carolina will use a $554,000 federal grant to buy four new hybrid-electric school buses and retrofit old buses to reduce pollution.

A company that makes hospital supplies has laid off 119 workers at its South Carolina plant.

Thousands will march in South Carolina's Statehouse in Columbia today asking for Mark Sanford to resign.

Regulators in South Carolina refused today to grant Duke Energy a water-quality certification the utility needs to renew its hydroelectric license for the Catawba River.

In statement released Thursday, attorney Paul Coggins says Sen. John Ensign's parents made the gifts "out of concern for the well being of longtime family friends during a difficult time." Sen.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford , if he has any sense at all, is dancing a jig of rhapsody right at this very minute.

A South Carolina work crew has found a body, but the coroner says the remains don't appear to be related to a serial killer who recently shot five people to death.

United States Attorney W. WALTER WILKINS stated today that a federal jury convicted Reverend Leon Devon Dizzley, age 57 of Orangeburg, of conspiracy to launder drug proceeds.

The rally seeking South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation at the Statehouse will go without a key Republican Party leader.

COLUMBIA, S.C.: A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter.

A convicted drug dealer who police say shot and killed a 12-year-old South Carolina trick-or-treater because the man thought he was being robbed is expected to appear in court today.

COLUMBIA a ' A small Christian college in South Carolina plans to double the size of its campus over the next few years and increase enrollment.

Timothy M. Kainea s office has rejected a second request under the statea s Freedom of Information Act for records of where he has traveled, when and for whom.

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster has begun asking campaign contributors for permission to use their donations for his gubernatorial campaign - but in a way that some say may not square with state law.

Questions over bizarre mid-term resignation echo throughout the political spectrum.

Patrick Tracy Burris, the serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people.

The saga of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his Argentine romance has been such ripe fodder for the gossip mills that the essential governmental question has almost been forgotten.

Activity was spotted at the Forest Lawn Cemetery involving the Jackson family. The cemetery is the location where relatives were expected to hold a private funeral.

Social conservatives in Iowa and New Hampshire already were reeling from scandals surrounding two Republicans thought to be considering White House runs when Alaska Gov.