South Carolina News

Over the past year, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint has morphed from a relatively unknown Southern Republican into a national champion of conservative activists.

A former aide to past presidential candidate John Edwards is returning to court just three days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail for contempt.

A woman has been indicted on a charge that she embezzled more than $500,000 from a South Carolina bank.

Nearly a year after the state's worst wildfire, forest managers and landowners have asked legislators to give them more protection from lawsuits when they intentionally set fires to reduce debris that could fuel wildfires and inadvertently damage property.

According to the South Carolina Employment Security Commission, unemployment in the state and in Anderson County remains at record levels.

A panel has expressed concerns about old firefighting equipment at the Savannah River Site, a former nuclear weapons complex along the South Carolina-Georgia border.

South Carolina legislators will discuss doing away with a requirement for driver's license vision tests every five years.

Democrat Tom Thompson of Columbia is set to officially announce his candidacy today.

Graniteville spill killed nine

Copper hopes more revenue, jobs generated

Clemson's president has been swamped with responses after the NCAA pulled an connected to Focus on the Family.

Group fights law that lets utilities raise rates for nuclear plants.

The South Carolina Supreme Court is considering if a panel dominated by lawmakers can declare judicial candidates unqualified.

Lawmakers are considering cutting all services for nearly 26,000 people with disabilities as South Carolina tries to plug a $560 million budget hole.

The 16-year-old Greenville man was being taken from to psychiatric facility in Columbia