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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina General Assembly likely met for the last time this year Wednesday, easily passing a budget that included what is effectively an $18,000-a-year raise for all of its members.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina General Assembly wrapped up its regular 2025 session Thursday with a few accomplishments, but a number of things like the fate of the state treasurer and radical changes in the state's tax code are still up in the air.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's Republican-dominated Senate voted 33-8 on Monday to kick the Republican treasurer out of office over a $1.8 billion accounting error.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's Republican-dominated Senate and its elected Republican treasurer faced off Monday in an extraordinary hearing as senators try to kick the treasurer out of office over a $1.8 billion accounting error.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's elected treasurer is asking the state's highest court to stop a hearing later this month to start the process of removing him from office over a $1.8 billion accounting error that has plagued the state for nearly a decade.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- For the first time in over two centuries as a U.S. state, South Carolina lawmakers are going to try to remove a statewide elected official from office.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- At least three-quarters of South Carolina's House members approved the more than 100 sections of the state's $14 billion spending plan this week, but is wasn't as easy as that makes it seem.
Three members of the City Council in South Carolina's third-largest city accepted kickbacks and bribes to give out grant money and rezone land or lied about what they knew, federal prosecutors said Wednesday,
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The first big fight of the 2025 legislative session in South Carolina is splitting Republicans and Democrats as well as attorneys, businesses and insurers as the Senate looks to change how the state handles some civil lawsuits.
BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. (AP) -- Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors is making a massive bet in the electric SUV market with a carefully cultivated experience that will allow some customers to buy the company's vehicle in minutes on an app and then use it to handle everything after from repairs to updates and upgrades.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis said Wednesday that calls for him to resign over an accounting error that left the state trying to figure out what happened to a $1.8 billion fund amounted to a witch hunt.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Wednesday is a big day for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. Yes, he's giving his eighth State of the State address. And he's become the Palmetto State's longest serving governor at 2,927 days, thanks in large part to his evolving political instincts over 40 years in politics and a boost from President Donald Trump.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- It turns out that $1.8 billion in South Carolina state funds weren't just sitting in a bank account waiting to be spent. Instead, it was an accounting error compounded over years instead of being reconciled, an independent forensic audit determined.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- More introductions than normal were needed Tuesday as the South Carolina General Assembly started its latest two-year session.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A group studying where to put South Carolina's first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls' statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who dismantled most of the former slave's work after the Civil War.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform that have long been too tough to handle.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Just like the 12 other elections this century, it was a good night for Republicans in South Carolina.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday cemented her hold on her seat in a state that doesn't mind sending people back to Congress for decades.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is trying to cement her hold on her seat in a state that doesn't mind sending people back to Congress for decades.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A civil rights organization wants South Carolina to reopen voter registration for nearly 1,900 teens after the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to notify election officials that they checked the box to register as they got their driver's licenses.
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder's ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It's in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare hands. There are just a few creases and tiny discolorations, even though it's just a few weeks shy of 237 years old and has spent who...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A group that works to protect and expand voting rights is asking South Carolina's highest court to order lawmakers to redraw the state's U.S. House districts because they lean too far Republican.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In return, they lost their jobs.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- When Tim Scott was a teenager, a Chick-fil-A manager named John Moniz offered him a sandwich, a job, and four years of indispensable mentoring about how to be a businessman and a citizen. Later, after that helping hand put Scott on a path that eventually led him into politics, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley appointed him...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Sheri Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer, won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 3rd District on Tuesday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Longtime friends former President Donald Trump and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster are on opposite sides as voters on Tuesday in the state's 3rd Congressional District choose their Republican nominee.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican women in the Senate, but after Tuesday's primary, they're losing their election bids.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has won the Republican nomination after a tumultuous second term in South Carolina that saw her go from an enemy to ally of former President Donald Trump and make headlines for plenty of things off the House floor.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has won the Republican nomination after a tumultuous second term in South Carolina that saw her go from an enemy to ally of former President Donald Trump and make headlines for plenty of things off the House floor.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is seeking a third term with the backing of someone who tried to stop her from getting a second -- former President Donald Trump.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- For the first time in nearly two decades, all the justices on South Carolina's Supreme Court are going to be white.