COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina legislators have approved plans that redraw their own districts and the districts of U.S. House seats.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill meant to stop a South Carolina town from catching speeders on Interstate 95 using a traffic camera is heading to Gov. Nikki Haley's desk.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The National Trust for Historic Preservation has put Charleston on what it calls "watch status" because of concerns about the city's growing cruise industry.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, raised from the floor of the Atlantic 11 years ago, is being raised again. But this time, the sub is being raised only a few feet in its conservation tank in North Charleston.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Midlands Housing Alliance is celebrating the opening of its $11 million, privately funded shelter that aims to give the homeless a new chance on life.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Legislators are preparing to debate new district lines for 46 state Senate seats.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal investigators say a South Carolina Transportation Department employee violated a prohibition against government workers involved in federally financed programs from running for elected office.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina law enforcement officials say a state trooper has been fired the same day federal authorities began an investigation involving him.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former Williamsburg County sheriff's deputy has been arrested after state police say he beat an inmate who was being booked at the jail.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina senators have approved requiring businesses of all sizes to use an online federal program to verify their employees can legally work in the U.S.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's financial oversight board has approved another bailout for the state's Medicaid program.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Army soldiers are gleeful they can ditch the ill-fitting black wool berets they've worn for years and go back to their old, brimmed patrol caps.

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A Florence man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting and killing his younger brother last summer.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina legislators will decide whether to take up a bill Gov. Nikki Haley wants that would put much of the state's bureaucracy under her control.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has named a new state inspector general to replace an appointee who quietly quit in frustration in April.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston County school officials say they will eliminate 70 jobs for the coming school year in order to deal with budget cuts.

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for the 2008 shooting of a Spartanburg man.