GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — The first woman to graduate from The Citadel has announced her plans to challenge U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary in 2014.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials in Columbia are scheduled to host a kickoff event for the National Night Out.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Visitors to Congaree National Park are going to encounter a closed visitor center on Sundays and Mondays come this fall.

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — The new president of South Carolina State University is proposing adding six administrative positions he says are badly needed.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a West Columbia man has strangled his roommate in the home they shared

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former employee of the South Carolina agency that polices workplace safety has received $120,000 to settle a dispute over his firing.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities have charged a 29-year-old Columbia man with killing another man at an apartment complex in a shooting that stemmed from an argument between middle school gang members.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of South Carolina's U.S. Senate races in 2014 may soon be getting more crowded.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Several places in the South Carolina Upstate along with Florence have seen their rainiest July since records have been kept.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Three Republican governors who are potential 2016 presidential candidates are helping Gov. Nikki Haley raise money toward her expected bid for a second term.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Richland County Coroner Gary Watts is planning to hold an inquest in the death of a 21-year-old man shot by Columbia police.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Letter grades for nearly half of South Carolina's school districts dropped during the past school year, but education officials blame more ambitious performance goals rather than poorer achievement by students.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina says it will review the grants of a researcher accused of misspending federal money in his previous job.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An Iraq war veteran is sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing his girlfriend last year and placing her decomposed body in the front yard of her Columbia home.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former Columbia city park ranger is accused of using his job to scout homes to break into and monitoring city radios to notify other burglars about police.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency has told Duke Energy a decision on its application to build and operate two nuclear power plants in South Carolina won't be made until 2016, about three years later than planned.

Susan Bires says it's a parent's worst nightmare. Your child gets hits by a car, is critically injured, and the driver keeps going. More than that, nearly a year later, no one has come forward with answers.

MANNING, S.C. (AP) — A 29-year-old Manning man has been ordered to spend four years in prison for threatening a judge and a former prosecutor in a YouTube rap video.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An attorney representing state NAACP President Lonnie Randolph on charges of refusing to pay his dry cleaning bill and fighting with officers says he wants a new prosecutor handling the case.