Richland county sheriff's are searching for the mother of a newborn baby boy they say she gave birth to in an area apartment complex. A resident found the infant on a staircase with the umbilical cord still partially attached.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's new education accountability system will look a lot like the system that has been in place for years if the U.S. Education Department lets South Carolina opt out of No Child Left Behind.
Authorities say a woman has been arrested after she hit her boyfriend with a high-heel shoe after he became upset because she was at a party with a male stripper.
Clemson University's automotive engineering program has received a $1 million federal grant to fund research on building vehicles that are more reliable and environmentally friendly.
The family of a 5-year-old Walkersville, Md., boy says he was bitten in the leg by a shark off North Myrtle Beach, but authorities aren't sure what kind of animal bit the child.
Federal prosecutors seeking to try John Edwards for campaign finance violations have filed a sealed response to the former presidential candidate's motion asking a judge to dismiss the charges.
A commute home during Sunday night's thunderstorm turned near-deadly for a Midlands mother and her three children, as they were trapped inside their SUV after a tree fell on it.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — White House hopeful Newt Gingrich plans to stay overnight at the South Carolina Governor's Mansion next week.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — County officials across South Carolina are in revolt about picking up costs tied to the GOP presidential primary.
A local elementary school closes due to a power outage; a family of four in their truck as a tree falls on it; and a man forced to clear his yard of branches after limbs tumble atop his roof; all examples of Sunday's storm aftermath in the Midlands.
You could have some money out there and not even know it. According to the State Treasurer's office, the Palmetto Payback program is holding nearly fifty million dollars in unclaimed funds for the midlands alone.
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson is holding a town hall meeting with his constituents.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A project by the libraries at the University of South Carolina has taken 19 newspapers from across the state and made editions between 1860 and 1922 available on a website.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel says those who tried to bring mankind to a better place after the horrors of the Holocaust have failed.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond wants residents to nominate charities that deserve to be called "angels."
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a mother from New York who is accused of abducting eight of her own children from a child welfare agency may be in South Carolina.
Soaring gasoline prices are in the rearview mirror. For the first time in months, retail gasoline prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in places, including parts of Michigan, Missouri and Texas. And the relief is likely to spread thanks to a sharp decline in crude-oil prices.
Several states have adopted new laws requiring photo IDs to vote. But there's little evidence of the kind of fraud that these laws are supposed to prevent.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says the U.S. should consider military action to defend U.S. troops if Pakistan's intelligence agencies continue supporting terrorists who are attacking American forces.
Marcus Lattimore scored two touchdowns and had 150 total yards from scrimmage to lead No. 12 South Carolina to a 21-3 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday night. The Gamecocks (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) won on defense, holding the Commodores (3-1, 1-1) to 77 yards.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina says its new Darla Moore School of Business will be more than classrooms.
Friday's morning commute in the Mildands brought with it more than two inches of rainfall in 48 hours, and that caused serious problems for motorists and emergency personnel.
It's struttin' time in Irmo again. The annual Okra Strut gets underway Friday, with the festivities kicking off at 6 p.m. But, as we found out the location of the event nearly halted the entire festival.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, econonic develepment officials and state agencies spent more than $231,000 on a trip in June to the Paris Air Show and to Germany.
GASTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 64-year-old Lexington County man is dead after he was shot while answering his front door.
