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Last-minute fortune seekers buy Powerball tickets

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:58:23 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa - It's all about the odds.

Largest Spoleto season to unfold next week in SC

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:39:11 -0400

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - From comic book art to Shakespeare and Japanese opera, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances during the 17 days the festival lights up stages across this seaside city.

Medical examiner testimony key in Columbia trial

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:29:44 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - The second week of testimony in the trial of a Columbia man charged with killing his wife and his colleague in a sports gambling ring ended with a medical examiner saying the gun in one of the victim's hands was likely planted after he died.

Store owner's insurance fraud trial goes to jury

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:06 -0400

DARLINGTON, South Carolina - A jury is getting ready to decide the fate of a Hartsville store owner accused of faking an assault and setting fire to her own store to get insurance money.

Appeals Court OKs suit to get back gambling losses

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:51:34 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A lawyer says a state Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for gamblers to sue for money they lose by playing illegal gambling machines.

Gilbert man dies plowing field near Lancaster

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:37:05 -0400

LANCASTER, South Carolina - A 72-year-old man from Gilbert has died after he was crushed by is tractor after he plowed a field in Lancaster County.

Ex-Horry County officer fined for harassing wife

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:22:05 -0400

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina - A former Horry County police officer has been ordered to pay a $500 fine for harassing his estranged wife.

Largest Spoleto season to unfold next week in SC

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:15 -0400

Blythewood festival raising money to fight cancer

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:13:36 -0400

BLYTHEWOOD, South Carolina - A fundraiser in Blythewood this weekend is memorializing those affected by cancer and raising money to fight the ailment.

Blue Star Mothers laud military at Patriots Ball

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:13:29 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - The Blue Star Mothers are honoring five current or former military men at their fifth annual Patriots Ball.

Plan approved, Gullah Geechee panel moves forward

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:11:09 -0400

CONWAY, South Carolina - Now that a plan to preserve the culture of slave descendants along the Southeast coast has been approved, the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission will be looking for an executive director and seeking partners for its work, commission Chairman Ron Daise said Friday.

SC unemployment falls to lowest rate in 5 years

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:39 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - South Carolina's unemployment dropped to its lowest rate in five years in April, state officials said Friday, a drop they attributed in part to increased hiring in preparation for the state's multi-billion-dollar summer tourist season.

This Week in the Civil War

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:04:13 -0400

This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, May 19: Union assaults on Vicksburg, Mississippi

Richland County to pay $150k to couple's estate

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:37:04 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Richland County has agreed to pay $150,000 to the estates of a couple killed in a 2008 train collision.

Gray Court man gets life in jail for wife's death

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:07:18 -0400

LAURENS, South Carolina - A Laurens County jury has found a Gray Court man guilty of murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife.

2 SC men sentenced in stabbing death

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:56:07 -0400

CONWAY, South Carolina - Two men have been sentenced to prison for their guilty pleas in the stabbing death of the uncle of one of the men in Murrells Inlet.

Tea Party groups from across the country tell their horror...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:50:44 -0400

WASHINGTON - By MICHAEL COLLINS

Democrats criticize Gov Haley for state plane use

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:50:54 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Senators want to sell South Carolina's two taxpayer-funded planes.

Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:18:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary.

911 calls released in slayings of SC children

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:12 -0400

PICKENS, South Carolina - A woman who authorities say killed her two young children and seriously injured her husband crashed her pickup into a tree so hard the roots came out of the ground.

Wrong way crash kills 2 on I-26 in Columbia

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:04:49 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - State troopers say a driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 26 northwest of Columbia has caused a wreck that killed two people.

911 calls released in slaying of SC children

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:52:11 -0400

PICKENS, South Carolina - A woman who authorities say killed her two young children and seriously injured her husband crashed her pickup into a tree so hard the roots came out of the ground.

SC, Ga. senators voice MOX support to White House

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:39 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Republican senators from South Carolina and Georgia have called on the Obama administration to continue funding a program to turn weapons-grade plutonium into commercial nuclear reactor fuel, saying that slowing or ending the project would harm international and domestic relationships.

Panel: No confidence in Carolina Southern

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:55:23 -0400

LORIS, South Carolina - A panel of government officials from both Carolinas has given a vote of no confidence to the owners of the Carolina Southern Railroad that has not operated in more than a year.

Utility truck plunges from Charleston bridge

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:37:48 -0400

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - Two utility crewmen are recovering from injuries after their truck plunged four stories from the Ravenel Bridge linking Charleston and Mount Pleasant.