South Carolina News

South Carolina is celebrating its 225th birthday as a U.S. state. On May 23, 1788, South Carolina became the nation's eighth state when it ratified the U.S. Constitution.

COLUMBIA, SC As one of the busiest travel weekends of the year begins, South Carolina Highway Patrol says they'll be staging nighttime seat belt enforcement across the state.

The State Law Enforcement Division says Russell Clark Johnson was arrested Thursday and charged with threatening the life of a public employee and unlawful use of a telephone.

Six years after a Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people called attention to the state of the nation's bridges, there has been minimal improvement and insufficient funding to repair and replace aging spans.

"By a Thread," by Mary Whyte, 2006, is one of 50 watercolor portraits on view at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in "Mary Whyte: Working South." Charleston artist Mary Whyte wasn't thinking much about the direction of her work when she began painting a well-to-do South Carolina banker in 2007.

The 3-day festival opens on Friday and continues through Sunday in a new location - the Technical College of the Lowcountry.

Adams and Reese Managing Partner, Charles Adams Jr., and Ellis Lawhorne Managing Shareholder William P. McElveen, Jr.

A teenager was killed and a second was arrested on DUI charges in an overnight accident, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.

An exhibit of nearly 100 pieces created through the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's Art of Recovery program is opening on Friday at the Circular Congregation Church in Charleston.

S.C. drivers will score the cheapest gas prices in the nation this Memorial Day weekend.

Just before Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions in front of a House committee investigating wrongdoing in the IRS tax-exempt office she ran, she gave an opening statement insisting her innocence.

A judge has ordered a 22-year-old former University of South Carolina student to spend seven years in prison and get drug, alcohol and mental health counseling after he admitted burning down a Columbia bar.

For those of you who haven't been reading our recent wire posts , there was a big story in Governing magazine this week about the sorry state of South Carolina's pension fund.

Last night at the New York Public Library, chefs David Chang, Daniel Patterson, and Massimo Bottura came together to talk about the culinary adventure that is Cook It Raw with founder Alessandro Porcelli and journalist Lisa Abend .

Former Midway Fire Rescue Public Information Office Bob Beebe has been arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

The Republican party often gets accused of being prejudice or even racist. While the claims are not always accurate, at times the nail is hit right on the head.

Lois Lerner , the embattled IRS official who invoked the Fifth Amendment at Wednesday's hearing covering the agency's treatment of conservative groups, seems to have a record of targeting Christians, The Blaze reported Thursday, citing the Weekly Standard .

South Carolina senators have defeated an attempt to help parents pay for private school tuition or educate them at home through the state budget.

A former South Carolina hospital worker who refused a required flu shot is entitled to receive unemployment benefits thanks to a state appeals court.

Two youngsters from The First Tee of Silicon Valley have been selected to participate in a special training program this summer at the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina.