South Carolina Government News

There's no need to go to Washington to hear the increasingly shrill arguments over phantom congressional districts and the number of jobs created by the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan.

Several measures indicate the number of swine flu cases in South Carolina is decreasing, but the most recent week reported was among the deadliest for the H1N1 virus outbreak.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will face an ethics panel to answer charges that he may have violated state law, which his lawyer said would give the once-popular politician a chance to present his side in an investigation into his travel and campaign finance practices.

A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later.

Several measures indicate the number of swine flu cases in South Carolina is decreasing, but the most recent week reported was among the deadliest for the H1N1 virus outbreak.

The S.C. Hospitality Association has partnered with the state Department of Health and Environmental Control Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling to form the South Carolina Green Hospitality Alliance.

Gov. Mark Sanford agreed Thursday to remove the last hurdle to a long-delayed House of Representatives impeachment investigation of his travel and campaign expenses.

Virginia inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006.

On the last Thursday in October, a unique government institution known as the S.C. Budget and Control Board quietly approved a $143 million contract that effectively leased out 95 percent of the state's broadcast bandwidth - owned by the public for decades - to two little-known private telecommunications companies for the next 30 years.

Eleven people have been hospitalized after showing symptoms consistent with food poisoning, a South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control spokesman said Wednesday.

South Carolina stands to gain a seventh congressional seat if population projections hold for the 2010 census.

It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 50,000 dams in South Carolina.

A top South Carolina lawmaker says embattled governor Mark Sanford should not face impeachment simply because he left to see his Argentine lover over the summer.

Two of the six astronauts riding in the space shuttle toward the international space station graduated from South Carolina schools.

The S.C. Supreme Court was clear in its ruling that Gov. Mark Sanford had waived his right to confidentiality in the investigation into his travel as governor.

The South Carolina House will formally receive an impeachment resolution on Gov.

The long recession is cutting more money from state revenues and is expected to force spending cuts of nearly $120 million from South Carolina schools, colleges and prisons.

God bless America, and how's everybody? Bill Clinton incensed health care reform opponents Tuesday by calling them tea baggers.

A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina vanity license plates inscribed with a cross and the words "I believe" violate the First Amendment's requirement of separation of church and state.

Agribusiness and political business A combine as South Carolina's governor candidates field questions A about one of the state's largest industries.