CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Obama Administration says that the $300 million deepening of the Charleston Harbor shipping channel is a nationally significant project and work to complete it will be expedited.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Myrtle Beach International Airport reports passenger traffic was down again last month, in part because of the loss of airline service.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has voted overwhelmingly to restore money supporting 15 rape crisis centers.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Budget overrides by the South Carolina Senate reopen two agencies, give $10 million to districts for salary increases and transfer that same amount to the Commerce Department to close deals.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two state agencies can re-open their doors, two weeks after Gov. Nikki Haley's vetoes eliminated all of their state and federal money.

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 37-year-old man stabbed his younger brother to death after a fight in his Lexington home.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate has restored $10 million to the budget to help school districts pay for mandated teacher salary increases.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An ill-fated attack by black Union troops which was portrayed in the movies has come to life through re-enactors in Charleston.

WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — A body believed to be a Nashville, Tenn., man who fell from a raft in rapids in the Chattooga River has been recovered after spending nearly four days wedged against a rock under the water.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A plane towing an advertising banner has crashed just off shore at North Myrtle Beach.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two South Carolina insurance firms are pledging nearly $50,000 to support a November flight taking 100 World War II veterans to view the memorial built in their honor in Washington, D.C.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say a man who taped up the legs and muzzles of three dogs and threw them into a canal targeted animals owned by his daughter and mother-in-law.