COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ Members of the South Carolina National Guard are celebrating the national organization's 375th birthday with a ceremonial cake-cutting and oral history rendition. The guard commander, Maj. Gen. Robert Livingston, is addressing soldiers and airmen at the armory in Columbia.

The state-owned utility will begin raising rates next year to pay for two nuclear power plants.

A civil lawsuit has been filed against the Summerville private school that once employed a man now accused of molesting nine boys.

The South Carolina Republican Party says it will provide only the $20,000-per-candidate filing fee toward the cost of running next month's GOP presidential primary.

Lexington police say two women stole presents a motel was collecting for needy children.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a Columbia ordnance that limits houses to just three unrelated people. Peggy McMaster, wife of former state Attorney General Henry McMaster, took the issue to the high court after she was issued a zoning violation when city officials found four unrelated University of South Carolina students living in a single-family home.

You could be $200,000 richer and not even know it.

South Carolina State University has finished the first building at its transportation research center after years of delay.

A legislative panel has initially approved a plan to fix South Carolina's pension system.

VOTE 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls say lower taxes and fewer regulations will create jobs. But they're struggling to explain what they'd do differently from their rivals to make that happen.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) _ The Spartanburg County Council has unanimously voted to give an incentives package to a new Amazon warehouse in Spartanburg.

Investigators say nine people arrested in a drug bust in Sumter County include the county sheriff's son.