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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has suspended a city councilwoman accused of falsely claiming her daughter had cancer to solicit money.

The Tennessee Volunteers had a Halloween treat - and a trick - for their fans on Saturday night.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says two South A Carolina air bases are still in the running to house the Air A Force's next-generation combat jet.

South Carolina ethics officials contend the state House chamber could receive a preliminary report on their investigation into Gov.

A deputy assistant attorney general who said he was on his lunch break when an officer found him with a stripper and sex toys in his sport utility vehicle has been fired, his boss said Wednesday.

State and local leaders are meeting to discuss the threat posed to the South Carolina coast by bigger and more severe hurricanes.

The Department of Energy is honoring the A nation's nuclear workers during a special program at the Savannah A River Site in South Carolina.

A $750 million Boeing 787 assembly plant is expected to bring thousands of badly needed jobs to South Carolina's ailing economy and, officials hope, a closer look at the state by other industrial prospects.

A former South Carolina worker at the Savannah River Site has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming racial and religious discrimination by co-workers. The Aiken Standard reported Friday that 41-year-old Al Zeiny sued his former employer in U.S. District Court in Aiken.

Gov. Mark Sanford on Thursday signed a speedily passed law this week that restores extended unemployment benefits to about 15,000 people.

For example, look at the logistics now in play. The big announcement was made yesterday.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is officially running for governor. Bauer announced Thursday he opened a gubernatorial campaign account.

Gov. Chris Gregoire says Washington state remains a strong player in the aerospace industry, despite the Boeing Co.'s decision to put a second 787 production line in South Carolina.

A plan to put the governor in charge of South Carolina's health and environmental agency has been revived by a Senate panel.

The former finance director of South Carolina's social services agency is expected to plead guilty to stealing more than $5 million from the agency.

Authorities in South Carolina say a 70-year-old man was found dead in his still-running pickup with a gunshot wound to his chest.

South Carolina state representatives have given key approval to extending unemployment benefits to thousands of residents.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:53 p.m. During a special session of the state legislature in Columbia Tuesday, Republican Representative Greg Delleney was expected to introduce a resolution to impeach Governor Mark Sanford.

The nuclear industry is responsible for more than 28,000 jobs in South Carolina - a bigger impact than BMW, according to a new study by Clemson University researchers.

After an earlier slip of the tongue by a local government official, it looked like Boeing's second 787 line was moving east.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for Cleveland County and the surrounding area.

Black women experience a significant delay in follow-up after discovery of a breast abnormality, a U.S. study has found.

Indigo might be South Carolina's state color, but the hospitality industry is going green.

South Carolina state senators have given initial approval to an economic incentive package that appears tailored to bring a massive Boeing assembly facility to Charleston.

The former finance director of South Carolina's social services agency has agreed to plead guilty to stealing more than $5 million from the agency, according to a plea agreement filed this week.

A South Carolina man has been killed after a tractor-trailer hit a train trestle, causing the container the rig was hauling to fall onto the man's pickup truck.

I have heard of people giving up their U.S. citizenship, but is it possible to renounce state citizenship? It's a thought that has crossed my mind many times in recent months after one political gaffe after another has made my home state of South Carolina the nation's laughingstock.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol said James Ammons III, of Easley, was on his way home from his son's baseball game on Friday night when he struck 45-year-old Gretchen Randall, of Piedmont, and her 15-year-old daughter.

The Associated Press sought independent statistical analyses of global temperatures to determine if there is a true cooling of Earth's climate.

South Carolina lawmakers return to the Statehouse tomorrow to debate tweaking state law to grant employment benefits to tens of thousands of people.

Larry Whitten marched into this northern New Mexico town in late July on a mission: resurrect a failing hotel.

The national debate among Republicans over their party's future is nowhere sharper than in South Carolina, where Sens.

In a surprise to many, South Carolina narrowly topped Oklahoma in the first BCS standings released this week.

MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina - The Diocese of South Carolina voted Saturday to distance itself but not completely split from the national Episcopal Church because of church positions on same-sex unions and ordination of gays.

The mayor of a troubled South Carolina town says an independent test proves her innocence on a drunken driving charge.

Beetles continue to spread tree disease across S.C. Beetles continue to spread tree disease across S.C. South Carolina forestry officials say a disease that kills redbay trees has now spread northward and near the border with North Carolina.

A massive pumpkin pyramid, tastings of South Carolina wine, a beer garden and antique tractors are among the highlights of a new fall festival on South Carolina's Grand Strand.

A governor who went AWOL for love, an allegedly closeted lieutenant governor, and a congressman who called the president a liar on live national television could cause more than just embarrassment for South Carolina, some residents fear.

A recurrent in-joke among conservatives is that the American political system is split between two entities -- the "Evil Party" and the "Stupid Party." In conservative-speak , the Democrats are the former because of their policies ; Republicans are the latter because of their apparently incompetent strategy and tactics .

An investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board was on the scene Thursday of a small plane crash that killed three men from South Carolina and one from Delaware.

School authorities say they found an unloaded gun in an eighth-grade girl's book bag after a South Carolina bus driver overheard the girl talking about the weapon.

South Carolina might not recover the jobs lost in the recession until at least 2012, economic experts say.

Authorities say a South Carolina man's good intentions almost caused an explosive situation.

An archaelogist at a South Carolina university plans to talk about her work excavating sites along the Red Sea.

South Carolina residents can tap into about $4 million in federal rebate cash for energy efficient appliances under a program next spring.

A South Carolina woman staying at her sick son's home has been killed in a drive-by shooting.

The family of a South Carolina boy killed while trick-or-treating last year urged families to keep their children safe as they go door to door, and local police hope a new initiative will do just that.

Goodyear officials say they plan to close a South Carolina plant, leaving roughly 90 people without a job.

The University of South Carolina will use a $4.95 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide underground in the Lowcountry, the school announced Tuesday.

A South Carolina county rocked by recent scandals is about to get a new clerk of court.

Love your body and don't always obsess about improving it that's the message at one South Carolina university.

South Carolina's jobless rate in September is set to be released as lawmakers prepare for a special session to deal with emergency unemployment benefits.

The School Building Committee last week got its first look at what the new middle/high school will look like as architect Charles Hay of Tappe Associates gave them a quick introduction to the schematic design.

The University of South Carolina is getting nearly $5 million in federal funds to study possible ways to curb climate change.

Two Republican county officials in South Carolina are apologizing after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.

South Carolina's top court expressed doubts about Gov. Mark Sanford's argument to keep a South Carolina Ethics Commission investigative report private, despite contradictions in state law about who may see the report.

South Carolina lawmakers will return to the Capitol next week to ensure thousands of state residents receive extended unemployment benefits.

A former South Carolina teenage beauty queen will appear in a new commercial poking fun at her confused, mangled pageant response which drew nationwide attention several years ago.

The South Carolina Forestry Commission and the USDA Forest Service have confirmed that Laurel Wilt, a devastating disease of redbay and other plants in the Laurel family, has been identified in a neighborhood north of Socastee.

Environmental officials from four Southeastern states are announcing an alliance to deal with regional coastal issues during a meeting on the South Carolina coast.

South Carolina attorney and Democrat Chad McGowan says he will enter the race for U.S. Senate.

South Carolina's highest court will hear arguments today about who can see a preliminary investigative report into Gov.

A South Carolina amusement park says it has a new group of investors who are helping it pay its bills.

Signs of bipartisanship on the climate-change bill MANY commentators fear that Barack Obama's plans for a cap-and-trade bill have got fatally stuck in the Senate.

Thousands of out-of-work South Carolinians will miss out on five months of unemployment checks because state officials failed to tweak a rule enabling them to tap into federal stimulus money.

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A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife's boyfriend.

Extended jobless benefits are coming to an end for about 7,000 out-of-work South Carolinians.

Officials say a student died after stabbing a police officer at a South Carolina high school.

South Carolina leaders have fumbled plans to allow out-of-work residents to collect seven weeks of extended unemployment benefits, and calls are growing for the Legislature to address that problem.

A judge has found a South Carolina man accused of shooting his mother and stepfather to death not guilty by reason of insanity and committed him to a state mental hospital.

Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises.

South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford will make her first public appearance on Saturday since separating from her scandal-plagued husband and moving out of the governor's mansion in August.

South Carolina's unemployment fund covering benefits is broke, thousands of workers are running out of extended benefits and the state's jobless rate remains among the nation's highest.

The Midwest and northern United States are likely to get a warmer winter, while the Southeast can expect just the opposite: cooler and wetter conditions.

The chairman of the Georgia-South Carolina panel developing a port for Jasper County says he failed to provide advance notice and an agenda for a closed workshop this week.

A South Carolina shopper's court battle with Target Corp. has ended. The Greenville News reported Thursday that a federal appeals court has dismissed the national retailer's request to overturn a jury's $3 million award for Rita Cantrell.

South Carolina's governor Mark Sanford is unlikely to get direct control of the state's health and environmental agency.

The knives are sharpened and the shiny steel gurneys bloodied at All American Gator Products, the end of the line for about 1,000 alligators killed during this year's hunting season in Florida.

The nation's most powerful judges Tuesday plowed into a bitter dispute over water use between South Carolina and North Carolina, asking pointed questions of lawyers for both states.

A national group says thousands of South Carolina teachers have completed training to prevent, identify and react to child sexual abuse.

Officials say four South Carolina police officers have resigned during an investigation of allegations that include abusing homeless people.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has raised more than $285,000 in a campaign account that's expected to help launch a bid for governor.

A South Carolina board will consider posthumously pardoning two great-uncles of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner.

Creigh Deeds, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia, may not be much of a candidate, but he has a future as a political commentator.

South Carolina's Democratic and Republican candidates for governor already have raised more than $5 million for their bids for the state's highest office and spent nearly $849,000 in primary contests that will play out in June, according to campaign finance reports.

A University of South Carolina pediatrician has been chosen to lead the nation's largest pediatricians' group.

People who bring children to a South Carolina veteran's hospital and its seven clinics around the state are being asked to stay out because of the risk of spreading the flu.

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An instructor at a medium-security facility has been named teacher of the year for South Carolina's prison system.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina broke ranks with Republicans on Sunday, announcing that he is working with a Democratic colleague on climate change legislation.

A blind South Carolina pedestrian has been killed after walking in a road and being struck by a sport utility vehicle.

Police in South Carolina have charged two people with forgery in the case of a Charleston woman missing about four months.

A professor and cadets at the state military college in South Carolina were closely watching the moon during a planned rocket crash.

In the days after Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" at President Obama during his address to Congress last month the South Carolina congressman reached out to several of his longtime confidantes.

Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is unveiling a show that exhibits for the first time the working proofs of artist Jasper Johns as artworks in their own right.

A county clerk of court in South Carolina has resigned amid an investigation into his handling of financial accounts.

Authorities say one South Carolina teen was killed and another person was critically wounded in a shootout.

Liberal lobbyist Dwight Drake raised $300,000 in his first seven weeks as an announced candidate for governor of South Carolina, his campaign announced Friday.

South Carolina is getting a new passenger terminal to handle the growing cruise business out of Charleston.

The first doses of swine flu vaccine have arrived in South Carolina. State health officials say several public health department across South Carolina reported getting shipments of the nasal spray vaccine Friday.

The H1N1 vaccine is in South Carolina, according to state officials. Several South Carolina sites began receiving shipments of the vaccine on Friday, the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control reported.

A State Law Enforcement Division agent who was driving South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will be issued a ticket for speeding, despite being issued a warning originally.

A South Carolina oversight panel has approved a scoring system that would mean more of the state's schools meet federal education goals.

A former Coast Guard officer says a joint South Carolina-Georgia port on the Savannah River may be more expensive because the harbor may need to be dredged farther seaward than planned.

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is asking South Carolina to posthumously pardon two of his great-uncles - black landowners executed in 1915 after being convicted of murdering an elderly Confederate Army veteran.

South University plans to open a pharmacy school in South Carolina next year, the second new program planned in the state.

In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate divided up his possessions.

On the air or on the ground, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford can't seem to get from point "A" to point "B" without breaking the law - or exposing himself to fresh accusations of hypocrisy.

Authorities in South Carolina say a 4-year-old girl died after choking on a metal screw at her family's home.

You're a comedian caught in a sex scandal. What do you do? Apologize sincerely? Tell a joke? Or both? The actor thinks "Late Show" host is handling his scandal brilliantly.

Police in South Carolina say a hostage situation ended with a woman escaping from a home and a man found dead inside.

Authorities say a South Carolina man has been charged with murder in the killing of his mother and a man in her home.

The former South Carolina sheriff who investigated the Susan Smith case has been indicted by a federal grand jury with lying to authorities and witness tampering.

Operations are back to normal at the South Carolina Statehouse after authorities descended on the complex to investigate reports of a suspicious substance.

David Letterman was both silly and serious in his first show back since the details of his intra-office sexcapades and an alleged $2 million extortion plot came to light.

If you are starting to feel the chilly fall weather, take heart. David Letterman told his studio audience that it was far chillier in his home.

Her new book, "Civil War Wives: The Life and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant," is interesting for the women's stories and for the contrast among the three.

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Ethics Commission lawyers will tell the South Carolina Supreme Court why they have the authority to give the House an investigative report at the center of impeachment arguments for Gov.

Police in South Carolina have charged two teens in the death of a man killed after he was shot on a porch during a robbery.

Attorneys for South Carolina are scheduled to appear Monday before the United States Supreme Court for oral arguments in what Attorney General Henry McMaster has called 'an unprecedented' legal battle with North Carolina over water from the Catawba River, and one that he says carries enormous economic consequences.

Governor Mark Sanford was in Aiken on Thursday. Gov. Sanford stopped at SRS, Thursday morning, and then made a trip to Aiken Tech's One-Stop Career Center.

Gov. Chris Gregoire says it won't be the end of aerospace in Washington if Boeing picks another state for its second 787 assembly line.

A $19 million renovation of the birthplace of South Carolina is nearly complete.

Unemployment, the economy and training workers are among the topics of discussion as directors of state leadership programs from across the nation gather in South Carolina.

Police say a South Carolina man has been killed after he was shot on his porch during a robbery.

South Carolina's oldest city is preparing to open its most beautiful homes to visitors.

Canada and the United States are discussing the possibility of trade deals between the states and provinces to get around the damaging Buy American policy, says Washington's new man in Ottawa.

By BEN FOX A spokesman for a U.S. Senator says the interim president of Honduras vowed that civil liberties would be restored in the troubled Central American country no later than Monday.Wesley Denton tells The Associated Press that South Carolina Sen.

So a late-night talk show host, married and a dad, walks on stage and admits to workplace hanky-panky. The punchline? He has long reveled in mocking politicians for their sexual trespasses.

South Carolina businesses could be on the hook for more than $2 billion - up to $567 per worker - to replenish the state's bankrupt unemployment trust fund and repay federal loans that have kept benefits flowing to jobless South Carolinians.

Officials think a flag used by South Carolina military cadets three months before the Civil War has been found in an Iowa museum.

Regulators are giving an update on their investigation at a nuclear fuel plant in South Carolina where uranium pellets went missing.

State health officials say the first doses of swine flu vaccine should arrive in South Carolina soon.

Officials have identified an Air Force C-17 captain who helped direct traffic on a South Carolina bridge to help an ambulance reach an injured truck driver.

Officials say a soldier from Florida has died after being diagnosed with pneumonia during basic training in South Carolina.

South Carolina business leaders bristle at the idea of raising taxes to cover the $2 billion the state needs to get out of a hole on unemployment insurance benefits.

A South Carolina coroner says a four-minute delay in taking a 3-year-old boy to the hospital had nothing to do with his death.