South Carolina News

Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands Announces Expanded Position for Lee Morriss Columbia, SC - Kim Hutzell, President/CEO of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands, announced that Lee Morriss has been named Regional Director, Midlands Region for the council.

Heading into the holiday travel season, law enforcement is cracking down on drunk drivers.

South Carolina's second largest city has approved rules prohibiting discrimination in housing, accommodations and services based upon sexual orientation and other factors.

A Spartanburg man has been arrested and accused of shooting at four South Carolina sheriff's deputies, including two in a helicopter.

South Carolina's attorney general says he's made no decision whether ethics complaints against Gov.

On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is putting more troopers on the road for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Clemson and South Carolina students burn mascots of the opposing teams ahead of this week's rivalry game

An FBI report said the number of hate crimes in South Carolina increased last year, compared with 2007.

Officials say eight railroad cars, one loaded with thousands of gallons of sulfuric acid, derailed in a sparsely populated rural area west of Columbia.

A first-ever, county-by-county survey of obesity paints another dim picture for South Carolina and the Southeast.

"This positions Clemson and South Carolina to become national leaders in the development of wind energy and benefit from the green economy," said school President James Barker.

The most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report from the CDC includes the first county-by-county survey of obesity nationwide, and it found that South Carolina has some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford , whose tryst with an Argentine lover blossomed into a wide-ranging scandal, is accused of breaking ethics laws by using taxpayer money for pricey airline seats , taking state planes for personal and political trips and occasionally tapping his campaign chest to reimburse himself for travel.

It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 50,000 dams in South Carolina.

Boeing's decision to build an assembly plant in South Carolina for its new 787 Dreamliner could spark development of the state's defense industry.

South Carolina is reporting fewer swine flu cases, but more deaths from the disease.

On the last Thursday in October, a unique government institution known as the S.C. Budget and Control Board quietly approved a $143 million contract that effectively leased out 95 percent of the state's broadcast bandwidth - owned by the public for decades - to two little-known private telecommunications companies for the next 30 years.

Authorities say two people have been charged with killing a random victim on the side of the road after deciding they wanted to kill someone.

There's no need to go to Washington to hear the increasingly shrill arguments over phantom congressional districts and the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan.