The South Carolina House has put its final touches on the state’s nearly $11 billion budget. The spending plan for the year starting in July includes raises for teachers, law enforcement officers and nearly every state employee. It won’t include million-dollar drawings for people who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
An Air Force base in San Antonio is on lockdown as police and military officials say they’re searching for two people suspected of shooting into the base from outside Joint Base San Antonio.
A federal law governing how college athletes can earn money off their fame seems certain to pass — at some point.
Brooks Koepka insists his ongoing rivalry with fellow major champion Bryson DeChambeau is good for golf.
Texas A&M hired Jim Schlossnagle as its new baseball coach Wednesday after his 18 seasons at TCU that included five trips to the College World Series.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court says a state law requiring sex offenders to register for life without prior judicial review is unconstitutional.
Authorities are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Marine Corps recruit during a strenuous exercise that caps a 13-week training course at South Carolina’s Parris Island. Installation officials say Pfc. Dalton Beals died Friday during an exercise known as “The Crucible,” the final test of recruit training.
A federal judge in South Carolina is considering a bid to block the upcoming electrocutions of two prisoners under the state’s recently revised capital punishment law. A state judge denied a similar request to stop the executions.
South Carolina’s state-owned utility appears to have survived four years of turmoil to remain public. The South Carolina House and Senate both unanimously approved an overhaul bill Tuesday that did not include selling Santee Cooper to a private company.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina judge is refusing to block two executions set for later this month. The two condemned inmates, both men, have sued the state over a new law effectively forcing prisoners to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad. Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman issued an order Tuesday allowing the planned executions of Brad…
