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A state with chronically high unemployment is making it tougher for the jobless to draw benefits by trying to force people to take lower-wage jobs and making it easier for laid-off workers to be declared ineligible.
A former Penn State official charged with enforcing discipline at the school said Tuesday that Joe Paterno's players got in trouble more often than other students, and got special treatment compared to non-athletes.
TD Bank is expanding its South Carolina corporate offices and creating 1,600 jobs in the state over the next five years.
The North Carolina family of the al-Qaida propagandist killed last week in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen claims the 25-year-old was a law-abiding U.S. citizen who was assassinated by the American government.
An agreement signed earlier this year by the U.S. and Mexican governments has allowed sweet, juicy Southern peaches to be sold in grocery stores south of the border for the first time in 17 years.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann promised Wednesday that she would submit only balanced budgets if elected next year, but she stopped short of promising to veto any deficit budget presented to her by Congress.
Some Republican lawmakers in South Carolina are calling on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to run for president.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lost her bid Monday to call legislators back to work to focus on key pieces of her agenda when the state's Supreme Court ruled for a fellow Republican who sued the governor.
Construction is starting on a new school in South Carolina more than two years after a student wrote Congress about the decrepit conditions at her school.
A University of South Carolina benefactor ousted from the school's Board of Trustees shrugged off the snub Thursday and promised to give the school $5 million for a new aerospace research center.
A South Carolina proposal would prevent the state's courts from enforcing foreign law, including Islamic Sharia law, though Muslim advocates say it could essentially ban religion from mundane matters such as weddings and even burials.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday a plan for deepening the Charleston Harbor must be worked out by spring, or the state's economy will face devastation.
The political blogger who claims he had a physical relationship with married Republican South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley offered new details in a sworn statement released Tuesday.
The board overseeing a South Carolina company that fosters technology jobs approved Thursday increasing employees' pay by $290,000 in an effort to make their salaries more competitive.
A business owned by the family of South Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley has been penalized for failing to pay taxes three times since 2003, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.
For 17-year-old Lizzie Guest, the TV show "Glee" was a life-changer, so when she heard about a summer camp based off the hit, she just had to enroll.
South Carolina authorities say a mother who claimed her children drowned when their car careened into a river has been charged with murder after confessing to suffocating the toddlers and then faking the accident.
A South Carolina sheriff says he hopes a judge will approve murder charges against a woman whose children were found dead in a car in a river.
Two young children were pulled dead from their child seats in a submerged car and South Carolina authorities expressed doubts about the mother's account that it was an accident.
A sheriff will meet with reporters to discuss more details on the deaths of two young boys whose bodies were pulled from a vehicle in a South Carolina river, still strapped in their car seats.
A woman who watched divers pull the limp bodies of two toddlers out of a car that had floated downriver near her home says she can't understand why the boys' mother, who was arrested, didn't bang on her door for help.
Obese government workers in South Carolina can get stomach-shrinking surgery through the state health plan under a pilot program that starts in January.
Tax records revealed Wednesday that South Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley repeatedly paid fines for not paying her income taxes on time.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina voters have nominated an Indian-American woman for governor and a black state lawmaker for Congress — developments which, on their face, suggest landmark racial progress in a state that still flies the Confederate flag near its statehouse.
Technical colleges, forest firefighters, school bus fuel and arts programs were among items spared the budget ax as the South Carolina House wrapped up a nearly 15-hour debate on Gov. Mark Sanford's budget vetoes early Thursday.
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