China’s economy czar is heading to Washington for talks Thursday and Friday before the deadline for a massive U.S. tariff hike.
For more than 700,000 customers of a private South Carolina utility, the $1,000 rebate checks aren’t in the mail.
Duke has reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll.
Officials in a South Carolina county are asking the state to spend some of its disaster money on permanent gauges to measure river levels.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A new bill at the Statehouse would allow a state watchdog agency to review South Carolina’s electric cooperatives for the first time. The bill would allow the Office of Regulatory Staff to audit a co-op and let them know if they were spending their money properly and following state law. Regulators couldn’t change rates. Democratic state…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Investigators say what they initially thought was a traffic wreck on Interstate 77 in Columbia has turned into a homicide investigation. Columbia Police spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said 22-year-old Shamar Johnson was ejected from his car after it crashed into a median and overturned several times before landing in the woods along I-77 near the Shop Road…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The growing realization that ever-more ferocious storms are becoming more common as the result of global warming is forcing government officials to revisit how they respond to natural disasters. In South Carolina late last year, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster created a special floodwater commission. The group will be tasked with figuring out how to better combat…
Greenville, SC (AP) — A South Carolina mother has filed a Federal lawsuit against a foster agency for refusing to work with her because of her religion. Aimee Madonna of Simpsonville says Miracle Hill Ministries, a Greenville foster care agency, encouraged her to become a foster parent back in 20-14, but cut ties with her once they found out she…
The school district of Charleston County, South Carolina, says a shortage of school bus drivers has left some students chronically late.
A group of senators say a proposal to overhaul how mental health patients are transported in South Carolina needs more work.
