COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki says graduates should seek the unity and optimism he saw in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of South Carolina residents waited for hours in the sweltering heat for free medical, dental and vision care, overwhelming capacity for the two-day event.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Georgians are flocking across the border to South Carolina to take advantage of their neighbor's sales tax holiday.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Beaufort County school board members have voted to close an elementary school next year, calling it a fiscal necessity to disperse its nearly 500 students.

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Relatives of a 50-year-old South Carolina man killed by an officer after a police chase say they want answers.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — One of Georgia's oldest surviving houses has partially collapsed.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in North and South Carolina seized more than $215,000 and arrested 18 on felony charges during an annual effort called Operation Rolling Thunder.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge has set bond at $1 million each for two South Carolina men accused of forcing a 26-year-old man to his knees, beating him with a pistol and shooting him in the head.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — A Conway man has been indicted in the 2010 shooting death of a Myrtle Beach man.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Duke Energy is asking South Carolina regulators for permission to raise residential power rates by 17 percent.

DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Gwinnett County authorities say a stowaway dog who survived scorching heat inside a truck as it traveled from South Carolina to metro Atlanta is now in need of a new home.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Charleston School of Law has received full accreditation from the American Bar Association.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's rural tobacco history is being remembered by the Friends of the Horry County Museum.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Myrtle Beach police are looking for a man they say ran into his wife with a Volkswagen Beetle during an argument.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — The Horry County grand jury has indicted a Mullins man on a murder charge in the beating death of a man in Conway earlier this year.

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — A former Bluffton police lieutenant who said she was illegally fired has been awarded $86,000 in a settlement of her lawsuit.