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One of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket "political bullshit." She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column , saying she liked Palin even if she ...

About 60 people participated in an "Impeach Sanford" rally Thursday at the State House.

U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett raised more than $500,000 in the past three months for his 2010 Republican gubernatorial run, according to his campaign.

When you're living with post-traumatic stress disorder, things like fireworks can bring back painful memories for veterans home from war.

South Carolina native Chief Judge Karen Williams of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has announced her retirement due to an unspecified illness, according to legal publications.

A man put an 8-year-old girl in a headlock Wednesday and shot her to death, then shot himself in the stomach, authorities said.

A company that makes hospital supplies has laid off 119 workers at its South Carolina plant.

To say that the story we ran on the News at 6 on Monday night about the injured osprey got plenty of attention would be an understatement In the past 24 hours, the newsroom has been bombarded with phone calls from viewers who want to help the bird out.

The solicitor for Richland and Kershaw Counties is in trouble with police in Charleston.

Sarah Palin's not a quitter, she wants the public to know. Sarah Palin's attorney said there is no legal reason that compelled her to resign as governor.

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

A former band director at a South Carolina high school has been placed on probation after being accused of molesting four members of the color guard.

Home / SC Politics / And The Point Of This Is? In his latest attempt to show an increasingly-skeptical public that he's still, you know, "governor," Mark Sanford heads to Charleston, S.C. today to get a briefing on Project Seahawk, a federal "port security" program that should cost a helluva lot less to implement seeing as South Carolina has pretty ...

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. is testing the 106 sirens located within 10 miles of its nuclear power plant near Columbia.

The reward in the case of the Upstate serial killer has been increased to $20,000. Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton made the annoucement Monday morning.

Just when you thought South Carolina's politics couldn't get any weirder - or more embarrassing - Gov.

A 15-year-old Piedmont boy lost part of his arm in a fireworks accident that doctors say could also cost him both legs.

An accident in Lexington County has claimed the lives of two people, one being a child.

Two Chapin children, ages 5 and 3, were killed Monday morning in a four-vehicle wreck in Lexington County that injured their mother and sent two other drivers to the hospital, authorities said.

Officials say a warehouse caught fire in West Columbia Thursday night, and was a total loss.