The 2018 U.S. elections may just be the year of celebrity candidates.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina’s public health director is stepping down. Director Catherine Heigel announced her resignation Thursday from the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The department says Heigel is returning to Greenville, where she will serve as chief operating officer for accounting and business firm Elliott Davis. Heigel took over one of the state’s largest agencies in…
The leader of South Carolina’s largest business association wants South Carolina’s two U.S. senators to oppose President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has written Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to tell him what the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law should contain. McMaster on Tuesday wrote the Kentucky Republican to consider a replacement measure that provides a “free market accommodation” for people with pre-existing conditions. McMaster was one…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Monday marked the two year anniversary of the removal of the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. The removal took place July 10, 2015 in a ceremony on the front lawn. Officers with Protective Services removed the flag from flying in front of the State House. The flag removal was prompted by the Charleston…
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells CNN’s Dana Bash that “everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections,” and that President Trump discussed this in his meeting with President Putin.
Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo The Senate Intelligence Committee staff will begin their first interviews with Trump campaign officials this week, according to a source familiar with the interview process. The interviews come as a part of the committee’s ongoing investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign. This is a developing story. Please…
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said today on “Good Morning America” that “no information was received that was meaningful or helpful” during Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer in the days after his father clinched the Republican presidential nomination.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina’s Republican Party is opening its wallet to provide a White House panel looking for signs of election fraud with some of the data about voters that the state’s election commission declined to produce. South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick said Thursday he will buy the voter data as state law allows and turn it…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The South Carolina State Election Commission is refusing to turn over voter information to a White House panel investigating voter fraud. The commission on Thursday posted on its website the reasons it is rejecting the request from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. The state commission said it has reviewed state laws and consulted with…
