With new backpacks, pens and pencils and clothes, millions of children are back in school or heading there after summer vacation. Many are excited, some are anxious — and still waiting for the results of the new tests they took last spring aligned to the Common Core academic standards.
A pastor affiliated with the church where nine black members were gunned down says South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is misguided when she talks about the state having racial harmony.
State Troopers are working Monday to make sure Labor day is a safe one on South Carolina highways. Safety checkpoints are being manned across the state.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some civil rights leaders say South Carolina and other states that use inmate work programs to help private companies are practicing a modern form of slavery.
The Newberry and Chapin communities hosted a celebration of the Chapin-Newberry American Legion baseball national championship team on Sunday.
A 58-year-old man died in a moped accident early Sunday morning on Lower Richland Boulevard in Columbia.
Police are looking for the driver in a crash that killed a pedestrian in Rembert Saturday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A documentary that asks whether black and white South Carolinians can face the state’s racially discriminatory past and lead the nation to reconciliation debuts on South Carolina Educational Television this week.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is collecting less in fines, but officials say they aren’t sure why.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers have picked a Columbia artist to paint the portrait of the late Sen. Clementa Pinckney that will be placed in the Senate chamber.
