COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Twelve people have been ticketed outside the Statehouse while protesting South Carolina's decision not to accept federal money to expand Medicaid.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House is not backing down from plans to punish two colleges in the budget for assigning freshmen to read books dealing with homosexuality.

NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 46-year-old Greenwood man has died after getting trapped in a machine at the Louis Rich meat processing plant in Newberry.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Taxpayers would at least partly fund South Carolina's first-in-the-South presidential primaries under a bill backed by both major parties.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Columbia city councilman is resurrecting a proposal that Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott run the city's police department.

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina congressman is sponsoring an event to help military veterans find resources that can help them in their daily lives.

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Relatives of four current and former residents of a home for seniors in Florence say the staff neglected and mistreated their family members.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers are reviewing stronger protections for heirs' property — generally property handed down by blacks without a will, often since slavery.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Center for Colon Cancer Research is holding a gala in Columbia to remind people the disease is one of the most preventable and curable forms of cancer when detected early.