COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top prosecutor is again hosting a somber ceremony to honor residents who were killed as a result of domestic violence. Attorney General Alan Wilson is scheduled to hold the Silent Witness Domestic Violence ceremony at the Statehouse in Columbia on Tuesday. As he does each year, Wilson plans to call the names of each…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley’s former chief of staff is officially taking the help of South Carolina’s prisons agency. On Tuesday, Bryan Stirling is assuming control of the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Last month, Haley announced that she had selected Stirling to replace Bill Byars, who is retiring after decades in public service. Before serving as Corrections…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds of technology experts from across South Carolina are in Columbia this week The 3rd Annual Carolina Technology Conference is slated for Tuesday at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Organizers say they expect 600 people specializing in information technology, security and technology management to participate. The daylong conference features speakers and vendors from around the country,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government has settled a dispute with South Carolina’s prisons over a policy segregating HIV-positive inmates. The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with the Department of Corrections over alleged violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The federal government had been preparing a complaint accusing the agency of denying HIV-positive…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Three candidates are vying in a special election to fill the state Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Robert Ford. Democratic Marlon Kimpson faces Republican Billy Shuman and Libertarian Alex Thornton in Tuesday’s election in District 42 in the Charleston area. Kimpson emerged from a six-way Democratic primary and runoff to win his party’s nomination….
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — The Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant is offering half-price admission to federal workers affected by the government shutdown. Museum executive director Mac Burdette says it’s something small the museum can do to help workers whose lives have been thrown into uncertainty because of the shutdown. Patriots Point on Charleston Harbor is…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) âone space€one space” A government watchdog group wants South Carolina’s attorney general to weigh in on whether Gov. Nikki Haley should reimburse taxpayers for a trip to North Carolina in June. In a letter provided to The Associated Press, John Crangle of Common Cause asked the State Ethics Commission’s director to either change his mind or seek…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says opening day for enrolling in health insurance through the federally run online marketplace is a mess. The Republican governor has actively opposed the federal health care law. But Haley says her office is trying to help people calling in with questions and their problems with signing up. Haley says while she fought…
While the peak of influenza season isn’t until February, at least five cases of the illness have already been confirmed in the state. Doctors urge the elderly to take advantage of a higher dose of the vaccine to safeguard themselves against the virus.
A local man put an eye catching sign in his yard this week, it reads ‘Obamacare for Congress.’
