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Are you in the mood for a culinary roadtrip? Do you enjoy eating delicious regional food served by award winning chefs, visiting palm tree lined beaches, enjoying local history, going boating and fishing, as well as viewing majestic live oaks draped with Spanish moss? If so, then a relaxing foodie vacation in Charleston, South Carolina may be just ...

A South Carolina city is breaking ground on the first building in the city to be financed by federal stimulus money.

The Charleston Artist Guild is honoring past member Vincent Bobo, an active member of the Guild who passed away last month, with a commemorative art exhibit entitled "Reflections." There will be an opening reception for "Reflections" this Friday from 5-8 p.m. at the Guild Gallery, located at 6 North Atlantic Wharf, downtown.

Tasers and other stun guns have proved effective in limiting injuries to police and suspects, but law enforcement needs to guard against potential abuse by officers who overly rely on such tools, a three-year study by University of South Carolina researchers found.

Police make two arrests in the homicide of a 15-year-old found dead beneath a downtown overpass last week.

Congressman Norm Dicks says Boeing needs a no-strike agreement from its unions in Washington or the company will open a new 787 production line at a plant it purchased in South Carolina.

CHARLESTON, S.C. The South Carolina Highway Patrol says 42 vehicles crashed in a chain-reaction accident on Interstate 26, sending 16 people to the hospital.

The mayor of one South Carolina coastal city says officials may rethink allowing alcohol on the beach, after the Fourth of July weekend left Folly Beach looking like a frat house after an all-night party.

They call the project "Let There Be Light" and the effort will save thousands of dollars for public housing agencies in Charleston.

The chief prosecutor for Richland and Kershaw Counties has been arrested and charged with DUI in Charleston, after investigators say Solicitor Barney Giese was driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

By Kerry Taylor, Labor Notes Sanitation workers in Charleston, South Carolina, are knocking on doors to drum up support for their battle to gain recognition for Local 1199B, part of the National Union of Hospital and Healthcare Employees-AFSCME. On April 4, the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination during a 1968 sanitation workers' ...

Boeing Co. said Tuesday it will pay $580 million in cash for a South Carolina plant where large components for the company's eagerly awaited Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes are built.

A South Carolina company has won two contracts to upgrade the suspension systems of more than 1,300 armored combat vehicles.

Nine Sav-A-Lot stores across South Carolina, including two in the Charleston region, received beef recalled last month because it was possibly tainted with E. coli bacteria.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is returning to work after spending a long holiday weekend in Florida with his wife and four boys.

Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka From Charleston, South Carolina - We were sitting on the dock over the weekend, drinking iced tea and watching the sailboats congregate in a cluster by the Wappoo Cut Bridge.

A downtown amphitheater, clusters of shops and a new hotel appealed to Sen. Robert Ford when he heard about development plans for a blighted part of Charleston.

At least two provisions of the South Carolina Constitution make provision for the General Assembly to remove a sitting governor, according to James Underwood, a University of South Carolina School of Law professor emeritus.

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