South Carolina News

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The South Carolina House has sent the Senate a $5 billion budget for the coming year, after an all-night session that focused on abortion, cigarette taxes and a loan to a golf tournament.

A cruise liner on which passengers fell sick with a stomach bug on three straight cruises has returned to South Carolina.

A diesel generator plant in South Carolina plans to add up to 500 jobs in the next four years.

The board of a South Carolina museum on Charleston Harbor where the Civil War began voted Tuesday against erecting a monument marking the state's 1860 secession from the Union.

Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to ...

A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said today.

John Edwards' mistress says she didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" to stay in the race after his wife's cancer returned.

Over the past year, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint has morphed from a relatively unknown Southern Republican into a national champion of conservative activists.

A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards is returning to court just three days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail for contempt.

A woman has been indicted on a charge that she embezzled more than $500,000 from a South Carolina bank.

Nearly a year after the state's worst wildfire, forest managers and landowners have asked legislators to give them more protection from lawsuits when they intentionally set fires to reduce debris that could fuel wildfires and inadvertently damage property.

According to the South Carolina Employment Security Commission, unemployment in the state and in Anderson County remains at record levels.

A panel has expressed concerns about old firefighting equipment at the Savannah River Site, a former nuclear weapons complex along the South Carolina-Georgia border.