Report Criticizes Paid Football Chaplains
A group that advocates for the separation of church and state wants the USC Football team to stop paying its chaplain.
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USC Upstate chancellor Tom Moore to leave
The chancellor at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg is stepping down.
Police: 19-year-old playing with gun kills 15-year-old
A 19-year-old man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after police say he was playing with a gun when he fatally shot a 15-year-old boy in North Charleston.
AG looking into Medicaid payments to SC’s abortion clinics
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office is looking into Medicaid payments to South Carolina’s three abortion clinics to determine whether any fraud occurred.
SC pension fund’s worth falls as investments don’t keep up
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The director of the agency that invests South Carolina’s pension portfolio says its worth slid backward because investments didn’t earn enough to cover benefit payments to retirees.
Report: More funding needed for spent bomb material program
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A report commissioned by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz says that a program in South Carolina to convert weapons-grade nuclear material into reactor fuel needs more money to succeed.
Gov. Haley says she’ll fight bringing detainees to SC
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says she will fight the possibility that detainees will be brought from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Naval Brig in Hanahan.
Top South Carolina prosecutor hosting presidential hopefuls
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top prosecutor is hosting a series of constitutional conversations with more than a dozen of the contenders seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
Boil Water Advisory Issued for Old Forest Dr.
Officials with the City of Columbia say an 18 inch water main break means customers on Old Forest Drive need to boil water for one minute prior to drinking or cooking.
Lexington county man arrested on murder charge
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department investigators have charged a Gaston man with murder in the fatal beating of Joanne White Taylor.
