COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The South Carolina House has approved a bill cutting personal income taxes. Legislators voted 104-3 on Tuesday to collapse the state's tax brackets and give all residents who pay taxes a modest break. Budget advisors expect it would reduce state revenues by $78 million.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ A Circuit Court judge has rejected the Catawba Indian Nation's request to build a casino in York County.
YORK, S.C. (AP) _ A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing the mother of his child, then taking their 2-year-old son, prompting an Amber Alert.
What Columbia police call a drive-by shooting has authorities looking for one of the drivers and the family of the victim planning a funeral.
RICHLAND COUNTY DEPUTIES ARE LOOKING FOR TWO MEN THEY SAY DROVE A TRUCK THROUGH A GUN STORE AND STOLE MORE THAN 30 WEAPONS.
An Army father based at South Carolina's Fort Jackson is one of three finalists for the 2012 Military Fatherhood Award.
BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ A Lexington County school bus driver has been charged with driving under the influence after a crash that involved three buses.
South Carolina's unemployment rate has hit its lowest mark in more than three years.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department says deputies shot at a suspect after he struck one of their own with a car.
GREER, S.C. (AP) _ Troopers say an 82-year-old woman has been killed after she was struck by a pickup backing out of a Greer driveway.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The new director of South Carolina's public health and environmental agency tells senators she didn't start her job intending to fire anyone, but she is laying off nine people in an administrative merger.
A former employee of the South Carolina Hospitality Association has admitted she embezzled nearly $500,000 from the group whose director killed himself earlier this year.
Instead of buying dresses brand new for prom, some girls are opting to rent or consign.
The South Carolina Medicaid agency reports an employee stole the personal information of 228,435 South Carolina Medicaid beneficiaries.
Greenville County deputies say a McDonald's employee spit in the iced tea of two customers after they returned them saying the drinks weren't sweet enough.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) _ Authorities say it appears a 23-year-old College of Charleston student was climbing down from a roof after stargazing when he fell three stories to his death.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Federal prosecutors say a 32-year-old Barnwell man who was found with cocaine, guns and more than $600,000 in cash during an arrest last month has been indicted.
A Richland County judge sentenced Tyheem Henry, one of eight young people accused of beating a Columbia teen in Five Points in June 2011, to 15 years, and the victim says that's a good ruling.
Several weeks after a high profile missing persons case-turned-suicide, a major player in the investigation is terminated and is now fighting back, creating a classic 'he said, she said' with Columbia's chief of police.
The South Carolina Supreme Court will determine if a lower court judge was correct in ordering a 2-year-old removed from a Charleston couple who thought they had adopted her legally and returned her to her biological father.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Sandwich spread maker Duke Sandwich Productions is investing $5 million in a new plant in Anderson County. Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt said in an announcement Tuesday that the company, which traces its history in South Carolina back nearly 100 years, expects to add 45 new jobs at the plant in Powdersville.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ A bill eliminating two-thirds of sales tax exemptions worth $260 million a year is up for debate in a South Carolina House panel.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies say a man has been arrested and charged with stabbing his great-grandmother to death after an argument over money.
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) _ A Marine flying squadron is again using a nickname a former commander thought was politically incorrect. The Beaufort Gazette reports Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is once again the Crusaders.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Laurens County's sheriff says he has settled a lawsuit by a woman who claimed she was sexually harassed and forced out of her county job after refusing his request to have a second abortion.
