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Hundreds of South Carolina state jobs would be cut and some subsidized health care would be slashed under recommendations that state agencies sent Friday to Gov.

It's a thorny question: Can a state economy based largely on tourism afford to have oil and natural gas drilling offshore? The answer, of course, depends on whom you ask.

South Carolina has about a $7 billion budget. Just about a year ago, Senator Shane Massey says the state had about a billion dollars extra.

Zookeeper China York cares for all kinds of animal babies at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in South Carolina.

United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that a federal jury convicted Zhivago Anwar Robinson, a 27 year old convicted felon from Rock Hill, on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack ...

Low-income uninsured women can now get free screening for breast cancer beginning at age 40, seven years younger than before, thanks to an infusion of funds from the state Legislature.

A woman has been charged with helping her husband escape from the federal prison in Martin County, but his freedom didn't last long - he died soon after sneaking out.

When Magdalana Domingo Ramirez Lopez moved to this South Carolina city nearly two years ago to work at the chicken processing plant, she felt at home.

BJ's Wholesale Club of Massachusetts says it will close its store in Greenville, putting about 60 people out of work.

South Carolina's Park Service is launching a new service so folks can use the Internet to track the changing fall colors.

Motorists may see the occasional station sporting plastic bags on their gas pumps, but it seems the shortage has almost corrected itself.

It's down to Alabama and South Carolina for South Pointe quarterback Stephon Gilmore.

Legislative leaders are negotiating on how to slash hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's $7 billion budget.

Former Democratic national chairman Don Fowler and 15 other South Carolinians have received warning letters from conservative activist Howard Rich that their involvement and donations to "a wide variety of ...

In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov.

The 139th South Carolina State Fair is opening a 12-day run in Columbia, with plenty of exhibits, rides and food.

Former New Jersey governor and federal environmental chief Christine Todd Whitman will discuss the future of nuclear energy in South Carolina and the U.S. Whitman will speak in Columbia on Thursday.

Internal documents show the U.S. military exported the "brutal interrogation techniques" from Guantanamo prison and applied them to three terror suspects in U.S. jails, civil rights groups said Wednesday.

Friends of DJ AM are throwing a party to welcome the celebrity disc jockey home after he survived a fiery plane crash last month in South Carolina.

COLUMBIA -- The director of the state's prison system suggested Tuesday that if his agency isn't spared in the next round of budget cuts, legislators should remove the requirement for educating prisoners so the ...