SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, S.C. (AP) _ Officials at the Savannah River Site have opened a $795 million power plant that uses materials like wood chips and shredded tires to provide 30 percent of the electricity for the old nuclear weapons plant near Aiken.
South Carolna's two-sport standout Bruce Ellington is giving up football to concentrate on basketball. Ellington said Monday that basketball was his first love and he wanted to focus on that sport full time.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina senators will choose a new leader this week after Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell is sworn in as the next lieutenant governor.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Winners of the 2011 South Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters Contest to be honored March 31:
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House is debating its proposed $6.5 billion spending plan for the coming year.
EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper has been injured after he wrecked his car while chasing a speeding motorcycle in Pickens County.
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — The loved ones of two Aiken police officers killed in the line of duty recently have received quilts for comfort.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina senators will choose a new leader this week after Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell is sworn in as the next lieutenant governor.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Even as ports like Charleston and Savannah are vying to get more federal money to deepen their harbors, the work of dredging to keep those harbors at their current depths continues little noticed.
YORK, S.C (AP) — The pipes at the mobile home in York where Carl Burriss lives no longer leak, but the Vietnam veteran still has no running water.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Horry County authorities have investigated seven slayings through the first 70 days of this year, more than the last three years combined.
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — Jury selection begins in Rutherfordton for a North Carolina man accused of killing a woman and dumping her body in South Carolina.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The body of a Greenville man has been found in the Reedy River.
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — The town of Sullivans Island is considering a swap with the state of South Carolina to acquire an old warehouse and dock on the Intracoastal Waterway.
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 65-year-old Gaffney man has died in a fire after his daughter and grandson couldn't save him.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a drunken boating crash that killed two people on another vessel on Lake Murray.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Spartanburg County deputies are looking for suspects in the shooting death of a man outside an apartment in Moore.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State Sen. Glenn McConnell stands to become the most influential South Carolina lieutenant governor in modern times, though it's a job he never wanted.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Richland County Sheriff's office now has 15 new bulletproof vests for its police dogs thanks to donations after one of the dogs was shot to death.
WALTERBORO, S.C. (AP) — A jury has awarded $700,000 to the family of a 21-year-old man killed in a head-on crash with a Colleton County deputy who was racing to check on a burglar alarm without turning on his emergency lights and siren.
