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South Carolina lawmakers are honoring 10 members of the armed forces who died over the past year with a ceremony in the state capital.

The entire staff of a small-town South Carolina newspaper has quit to start their own paper, leaving a 125-year-old news organization without a single employee.

South Carolina's top prosecutor won't A oppose a ruling which halts the execution of a man who's been on A death row longer than any of its current inmates.

South Carolina GOP Rep. Gresham Barrett has tapped his congressional account for television ads defending his D.C. record after his votes were questioned by a Virginia-based political group.

Democratic Reps. John Spratt and Jim Clyburn joined Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday in introducing bipartisan legislation to provide $4.9 billion in federal loans for rural power consumers to make their homes and businesses more energy efficient.

President Obama said Thursday that he would proceed with an overhaul of the immigration system this year if he could attract substantial Republican support.

A complex federal study of a fire that killed nine South Carolina firefighters, already delayed by months, is still months from completion, authorities said.

It's more than pocket change missing in one South Carolina county it could be as much as $300,000 and authorities are trying to find out where the money went.

Acting United States Attorney Kevin F. McDonald stated today that Randall H. Robertson, age 54, of Charleston, was charged in a two-count federal indictment with possession and receipt of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A.

Seven years after South Carolina changed the way it required drivers to prove their eyesight is adequate, the state has failed to establish a system of notifying people when they need to take vision tests or track who has done so.

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.

Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Chuck Schumer of New York discussed major immigration reforms Thursday with President Barack Obama at a White House meeting.

A day after endorsing a bailout-backing "Republican" in South Carolina's top GOP race, the S.C. Chamber of Communists err, "Commerce" endorsed a status quo Democrat in the state's other contested gubernatorial primary.

President Barack Obama speaks at a banking conference Thursday, holds more meetings on health care and gets a look at a new TV series about World War II.

South Carolina motorists would be fined $25 if they're caught sending or reading text messages while they drive under legislation that won approval in the House.

Details of ethics investigations would be public information once a South Carolina agency decides to pursue charges under legislation a House panel is scheduled to discuss.

When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.

Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down.

Two soldiers from South Carolina and Georgia have been killed in a vehicle rollover in Iraq.