COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Education Lottery officials still do not know who won a Powerball drawing worth nearly $400 million earlier this week. The winning ticket in Wednesday’s drawing was sold at a store in Lexington. The winner has not yet come forward. But the state’s other big Powerball winner has been spending money to improve education. The…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top prosecutor is celebrating the Second Amendment with a former president of the National Rifle Association. Alan Wilson’s campaign is holding a rally Friday with former NRA president David Keene. Keene has been active with the NRA for decades, starting as a board member before being elected the group’s president in 2011. James Porter…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina is scheduled to hold a gala event to help further its mission of telling the story of Southern life through its art and exhibitions. University spokeswoman Frenche Brewer says Friday’s annual fundraising gala takes place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the museum. The exhibit on…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s unemployment rate isn’t getting any worse, but it also isn’t getting any better. The Department of Employment and Workforce said Friday that the August unemployment rate remained unchanged from July at 8.1 percent. The unemployment rate has been either 8 percent or 8.1 percent each month since April. It was 9.1 percent a year…
Irmo Fire officials report, eight people escaped an early morning house fire in Irmo.
From now until the end of March, a specially made RV, courtesy of Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC, travels the state to take health insurance options to residents before enrollment begins for the Affordable Health Care Act goes into effect.
MANNING, S.C. (AP) — A jury has found a 26-year-old Manning man not guilty of threatening the life of a judge and a former prosecutor in a YouTube rap video. The Item of Sumter reports (http://bit.ly/1bvQxIu ) that a Clarendon County jury took five hours before acquitting Keith Gadson of charges related to the video. Gadson remains in jail awaiting…
Richland County sheriff’s deputies have arrested one man in connection with a shooting Thursday night off Hunt Club Rd.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 79-year-old librarian in Columbia is becoming well known as the Reading Rooster for her YouTube video book recommendations for children, teachers and other librarians. Helen Fellers has spent more than 50 years getting books into kids’ hands as a storyteller, bookmobile driver and branch librarian. She is the coordinator of the South Carolina Center for…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) âone space€one space” South Carolina ended the fiscal year with a higher-than-expected surplus, handing legislators an additional $68 million to distribute next year. The fiscal-year closing report issued by the state’s chief accountant shows South Carolina collected more than enough taxes to fund every item on the Legislature’s priority list for surplus revenue. Comptroller Richard Eckstrom said…
