South Carolina News Archives

Sen. Jim DeMint, who helped compel a change in U.S. policy on Honduras, Monday hailed the outcome of the Central American nation's presidential election.

Football fanatics watched as Clemson and South Carolina battled in one of the biggest rivalry games of the year on Saturday.

Nov. 30--The commander of Army recruiters in South Carolina and his top enlisted soldier hope to capitalize on their local roots when selling a future in the service to prospective troopers.

Businesses on Lake Hartwell on the South Carolina-Georgia state line hope a new study will help convince the Army Corps of Engineers to consider economic impact as it manages water levels.

An antiquated computer system is slowing payments to South Carolina's jobless and officials say it will take weeks to bring the system up to speed.

The tribal elders who stood on the stage knew who they were and where they had been.

The 37 ethics charges against Gov. Mark Sanford are not equal. Even within each of the three categories of alleged violations - flying business class instead of coach on state business, using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and using the state plane for personal and political trips - there are significant differences in just how serious ...

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands -- Charenee Stephens scored 20 points to lead South Carolina to a 58-55 upset of No.

With a ballooning population of older people, the UAB School of Medicine is changing its curriculum to ensure every medical student learns about caring for the elderly.

A huge right whale with a distinctive white knob on her head that shows up off the South Carolina coast every few years now has an official name, "Palmetto." The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Friday that the New England Aquarium has granted the wish of some South Carolina elementary school children to name the whale for the state's ...

Gov. Mark Sanford and his wife were all smiles after he won the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor in 2006.

People wearing a seat belt when they are stopped by the South Carolina Highway Patrol in three counties will get a coupon for a free chicken sandwich.

Gov. Mark Sanford's lawyer has told the South Carolina Ethics Commission that required disclosures weren't filed on four of 61 flights investigators questioned as part of their investigation of the governor's travel and campaign finance practices.

A woman has settled a lawsuit after her son was stabbed to death in a South Carolina prison.

The attorney for the South Carolina Ethics Commission says the agency might offer an opinion on a legal defense fund set up by the state Republican Party.

South Carolinians may get a chance to buy a Christian "I Believe" license tag after all.

Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands Announces Expanded Position for Lee Morriss Columbia, SC - Kim Hutzell, President/CEO of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands, announced that Lee Morriss has been named Regional Director, Midlands Region for the council.

Heading into the holiday travel season, law enforcement is cracking down on drunk drivers.

South Carolina's second largest city has approved rules prohibiting discrimination in housing, accommodations and services based upon sexual orientation and other factors.

A Spartanburg man has been arrested and accused of shooting at four South Carolina sheriff's deputies, including two in a helicopter.

South Carolina's attorney general says he's made no decision whether ethics complaints against Gov.

On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is putting more troopers on the road for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Clemson and South Carolina students burn mascots of the opposing teams ahead of this week's rivalry game

An FBI report said the number of hate crimes in South Carolina increased last year, compared with 2007.

Officials say eight railroad cars, one loaded with thousands of gallons of sulfuric acid, derailed in a sparsely populated rural area west of Columbia.

A first-ever, county-by-county survey of obesity paints another dim picture for South Carolina and the Southeast.

"This positions Clemson and South Carolina to become national leaders in the development of wind energy and benefit from the green economy," said school President James Barker.

The most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report from the CDC includes the first county-by-county survey of obesity nationwide, and it found that South Carolina has some of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford , whose tryst with an Argentine lover blossomed into a wide-ranging scandal, is accused of breaking ethics laws by using taxpayer money for pricey airline seats , taking state planes for personal and political trips and occasionally tapping his campaign chest to reimburse himself for travel.

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

Boeing's decision to build an assembly plant in South Carolina for its new 787 Dreamliner could spark development of the state's defense industry.

South Carolina is reporting fewer swine flu cases, but more deaths from the disease.

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.

Authorities say two people have been charged with killing a random victim on the side of the road after deciding they wanted to kill someone.

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.

A search for a missing South Carolina teenage has ended after children playing found her body dumped on the side of a road.

South Carolina lawmakers plan to formally consider impeaching Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week, the chairman of the committee beginning that work said Friday.

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.

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.

A Democrat running for governor says South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds if it wants to grow its economy.

Dominique Archie scored 17 points to lead a balanced scoring effort for South Carolina as the Gamecocks cruised past La Salle 78-68 in the first round of the Charleston Classic on Thursday night.Leading by two at the half, South Carolina started the second half with a 13-4 run and built a 17-point lead with 11:50 to play.La Salle never made a ...

Eight days after her husband admitted to an affair in June, South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford filed paperwork to trademark her name.

The Dorn VA Medical Center is opening a new outpatient clinic for veterans in South Carolina's Upstate.

Three former officials in a South Carolina county plagued by scandal are expected in court to face federal charges.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:38 a.m. Read more: Local , State , Community , Annual Scrooges and Angels , 2009 In the following news release, South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond announced today the fourteenth-annual Scrooges and Angels for 2009.

A state panel will decide as soon as today whether there is sufficient evidence to try South Carolina Gov.

Call it udder shock. A South Carolina woman who heard a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow had fallen into her swimming pool.

The family of a South Carolina man killed when another man drove his Maserati into a home has settled a civil case for $3 million.

Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.

COLUMBIA - A request by Gov. Mark Sanford to the State Ethics Commission not to release a report of the agency's investigation of him may not be heard at the commission's meeting Wednesday as officials await a "clarification" from the state Supreme Court of its ruling two weeks ago on the matter.

The Christmas tree in front of the South Carolina Statehouse has been affected by the recession.

The trial of a South Carolina woman charged with killing three children in her home day care is under way.

South Carolina health officials say bacteria levels have returned to normal following a sewage spill sparked by the rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida.

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

A South Carolina man has been placed on probation for three years for reckless homicide after his speeding Maserati hit a house and killed a Greenville man.

A 5-year-old boy has been killed after falling off an all-terrain vehicle in western South Carolina.

One of the biggest surprises in recent news stories comes from the Winthrop Poll, a South Carolina-based sampling effort designed to gauge opinions on public policy across the South.

State and local officials celebrated Friday the state's completed purchase of the Woodberry Wildlife Management Area in lower Marion County, which they said represents one of the largest habitat conservation purchases in Palmetto State history.

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.

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has elected a Pickens pastor as its next president.

Six candidates running for governor agreed Friday that agribusiness is crucial to South Carolina but each told an audience of farm and business leaders he has the best vision for the $34 billion industry.

Authorities are looking for the mother of an infant born at a South Carolina hospital with cocaine and marijuana in its system.

A South Carolina man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old while working on Clemson University's campus this summer.

A former South Carolina city clerk and treasurer has been charged with embezzlement.

A South Carolina woman who disappeared on a Christmas shopping trip seven years ago will finally be laid to rest.

At the same time the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business was announcing to the world it had obtained $42.4 million in matching dollars for its gift from Darla Moore and would soon be moving from its home in the heart of campus to a new $90 million building in Innovista, tensions within the building were so bad the school had to ...

Court documents say the estate of Adam " DJ AM" Goldstein is suing several defendants for wrongful death.

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

State police are investigating possible missing money in a South Carolina sheriff's office.

WASHINGTON Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday.

Anne Pressly's mother approached defense attorneys moments after jurors spared the life of the Arkansas man convicted of killing her daughter in an attack so brutal that it left the television anchor's face shattered and unrecognizable.

The South Carolina Baptist Convention has elected a Pickens pastor as its next president.

The first steps to the possible impeachment of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford are expected next week.

Four South Carolina educators have been arrested after claims a former teaching assistant abused autistic students and others failed to report it.

A federal judge ruled Nov. 10 that a South Carolina license plate featuring a cross, stained-glass window and the words "I Believe" violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.

Taxpayers in the Carolinas e-filed a record 4.3 million federal income tax returns during 2009 for tax year 2008.

Authorities say workers at a South Carolina plant found the body of a missing 52-year-old man.

Police in South Carolina say a man broke into a woman's home and watched pornography as he waited for her to return.

Disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford might not have much political capital these days, but his wife does.

Authorities in South Carolina say a mother and her son have been shot and injured in a fight between family members over a video game.

KNOXVILLE - State Rep. Stacey Campfield was escorted from a University of Tennessee football game after a dispute with police over a Halloween mask.

Authorities say a 2-week-old South Carolina infant missing overnight has been returned unharmed to his mother.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe." U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie said in her ruling that the license plates was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment ban on establishment of religion.

Legislators and Gov. Mark Sanford are about to get the latest estimate on how South Carolina's finances will shape up for the next fiscal year.

Just 16 of the 600 businesses checked since July have been cited under South Carolina's new immigration law, touted by state lawmakers as one of the toughest in the nation.

United States Attorney W. Walter Walkins announced today that 17 drug suppliers from the Pee Dee region of South Carolina pled guilty to their involvement in a drug conspiracy spanning the past decade and involving more than one hundred of kilograms of powder cocaine and crack cocaine.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has $1.7 million left in his campaign finance account and can use the cash to cover legal fees tied to his ethics investigation.

A former South Carolina high school teacher and coach has been arrested after police say he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student.

Three people have been injured in a small plane crash in South Carolina. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the multiengine King Air B200 crashed short of the runway at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport around 10:15 Monday morning.

Fresh off of a MAC championship in 2008, Turner Gill's coaching staff is making waves in the recruiting scene in the class of 2010.

South Carolina is missing out on an additional $100 million in federal stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits, and it will be months before jobless residents see the money, if at all.

South Carolina needs to take a tougher stand to keep new beachfront development from moving closer to the ocean, according to a report requested by the state's environmental agency.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 12:08 a.m. An uneventful meeting Monday night in Atlantic Beach was coming to a close without much mention of suspended Mayor Retha Pierce.

A photo simulation made as part of a South Carolina utility's research into wind power shows large wind turbines would barely be visible if built eight miles off the state's coast.

A report requested by South Carolina's environmental agency says the state needs to take a tougher stand to keep new beachfront development from moving closer to the ocean.

One person was treated at a hospital after a chloroform spill at a South Carolina law firm.

I doubt if I have ever drawn a cartoon that didn't upset somebody. It goes with the territory.

A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.

A South Carolina woman who pleaded guilty to killing her husband's teenage girlfriend is expected to be sentenced.

Some of the Midlands' other major grocers - Wal-Mart, Pig-gly Wiggly, Bi-Lo and Publix - said they do not carry the tainted meat.

The president of a South Carolina textile service company says its Greenville facility will close Dec.

Congressman Don Young released a statement Thursday expressing disappointment that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will not be based at Eielson Air Force Base.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is part of a new effort to find common ground on climate change legislation.

Federal authorities say 21 people have been charged for their roles in cockfighting businesses operating in South Carolina.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., both sons of the segregated South, grew up in parts of South Carolina that were much farther apart than the mere 175 miles between them.

South Carolina, trying to curb abuse of narcotics and save money, is requiring Medicaid patients suspected of doctor-hopping for drugs to choose one pharmacy for all of their prescriptions.

Environmental issues are taking center stage in the race to run South Carolina. Five Democrats and five Republicans who want to be governor started their Tuesday night debate in Orangeburg by discussing the environment.

Authorities say a 42-year-old man who walked away from a minimum-security South Carolina prison turned himself in a day later in North Carolina.

Gov. Mark Sanford no doubt hopes that the successful wooing of a Boeing jet assembly line by the state will bolster his image as a can-do governor.

What's in a name? A lot if you're seeking a legal career, with a U.S. study finding that women with male names are more successful lawyers and judges than those with more traditional, feminine names.

From The State : So far in 2009, the number of South Carolinians wanting to pack heat nearly has doubled over the previous year as people worry about violent crime and feel threatened by partisan politics.

Federal prosecutors are giving a South Carolina poultry plant facing immigration violations two years to get in line with federal practices.

America's most-fireable man may have just been saved by a bunch of machinists from Washington.

Authorities say a body found in South Carolina has been identified as 17-year-old North Carolina girl.

What's in a name? A lot if you're seeking a legal career, with a U.S. study finding that women with male names are more successful lawyers and judges than those with more traditional, feminine names.

Richard Riley, a former U.S. Secretary of Education and South Carolina governor, will speak with Education students at East Tennessee State University.

Atlantic Beach Mayor Retha Pierce was indicted Thursday by a South Carolina grand jury for an alleged hit and run accident on April 10.

Law enforcement statistics indicate the number of concealed weaons permits issued in South Carolina has risen sharply in a state vexed by violent crime.

The schools superintendent for a coastal South Carolina county says she will refuse any bonus she might be awarded by her local board for boosting student achievement and meeting other goals.

Rick Sanchez reports on another Republican sex scandal coming out of South Carolina.

Scientists have identified two genetic mutations that help account for the presence of recurring yeast infections in certain women.

On Monday November 9th, Congressman Ron Paul is scheduled to deliver a lecture at the University of South Carolina.