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When it comes to the six Republicans competing for lead dog of the GOP leadership, all are on point: They love Ronald Reagan, are pro-life, advocate small government, and promise more diversity and fewer taxes.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is moving his state of the state speech up a week and out of the shadow of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.

Children who are breast fed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breast fed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle fed, a new study suggests.

While he expects an increase in the cigarette tax during the legislative session that begins next week, said S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, don't expect lawmakers to raise any other taxes during the current ...

The upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War, unlike the commemorations of a half century ago, will be marked with a broader, more reverent recounting of the bloody struggle that wrenched a nation.

More than 350 people attended a rally at a church in Greer to protest a federal judge's order banning South Carolina from producing a religious license plate that carries the words "I Believe.'' The Rev.

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said too many Republican elected officials govern "like Jimmy Carter" as he presented his case Monday for heading the Republican National Committee in a debate with ...

A federal judge has ordered lawyers seeking to prevent the release of information to South Carolina Gov.

Leaders of the South Carolina Employment Security Commission are considering a trip to Virginia to see how that state operates its unemployment benefits system.

Tourism is a key to South Carolina's economy, but the state will no longer welcome visitors on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

CHARLOTTE A federal prosecutor said a Charlotte car dealer has agreed to plead guilty to aiding in the filing of auto loan applications that falsely stated incomes and employment.

An ex-convict charged with killing a 12-year-old South Carolina boy who knocked on his door on Halloween night is expected in court on a federal weapons charge.

A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head after a highway chase pleaded guilty Monday to violating the man's civil rights, according to federal court documents.

School bus drivers and mechanics as well as people engaged in farming and research jobs have the most to lose from budget cut proposals legislators are mulling.

Gov. Mark Sanford will take a slimmed-down agenda into his last two years in office, abandoning some of the plans he brought with him to Columbia.

Conservation officials say two cannons from the CSS Alabama have been preserved at the same South Carolina lab conserving another Civil War artifact, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.

In this June 14, 2003 file photo, President George W. Bush holds up a striped bass that he caught while fishing off the coast of Kennebunk, Maine.

The U.S. Census Bureau will hire more than 600 workers in South Carolina this year as the nation gears up for the 10-year count of how many people live here.

South Carolina education officials say the growing number of students with autism is creating a heavy demand for school services.

President-elect Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems has local officials clamoring for their share of those federal dollars despite concerns that creating millions of ...