Ben Carson did not apply and was not admitted to West Point Military Academy, despite writing in his book "Gifted Hands" that he had gotten a full scholarship offer from the school, his presidential campaign told ABC News.

Vice President Joe Biden is returning to South Carolina as part of an effort to mobilize students to take action to prevent sexual assault.

President Obama announced his rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline this morning following a meeting with Secretary Kerry.

A Georgetown County Detention Center officer has been arrested for taking money from inmates, said Lt. Neil Johnson, with the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office.

An autopsy performed Friday a 5-month-old baby who went missing this week in Horry County showed that the mann er of death is homicide, according to Horry County Deputy Coroner Darris Fowler.

After a 30-year delay in which several hundred children have died or been injured, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has launched a new effort to ban window blinds with potentially hazardous cords.

You're going to need a fatter wad of cash to get your Thin Mints this year. Girl scout troops in several areas of the U.S. are set to hike the price of a box of cookies to $5 from $4, up 25%

The Alaska Earthquake Center says a light earthquake Friday morning shook southcentral Alaska and was widely felt in the region.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Several South Carolina nonprofit organizations are getting help polishing their messages through a 24-hour work blitz with University of South Carolina marketing students and their mentors.

U.S. hiring roared back in October after two weak months, with employers adding a robust 271,000 jobs and likely setting the stage for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next month.

A man suspected of attacking two relatives with a claw hammer in St. Louis County is dead after allegedly charging at responding officers, who fatally shot him.

Two centuries-old burial vaults discovered beneath a street in the heart of New York University's campus by workers replacing a water main were likely part of a Presbyterian church cemetery, an archaeologist said Thursday.

A police officer who was shot in the head in Richmond, Kentucky, while pursuing a lead in an investigation has died.

The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death of a woman who was shot and killed by Berkeley County deputies after they were sent to investigate someone firing a weapon in a Goose Creek neighborhood.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two of South Carolina's congressional Republicans are headlining the annual meeting of a conservative think tank.