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COLUMBIA - South Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill Thursday that would bar citizens of "foreign adversary" nations from buying property in the state, an anti-espionage measure that critics fear will chill overseas investments …
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By JAMES POLLARD
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/25/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/25/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA (AP) - Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw.
The state's top accountant will leave the elected post he has …
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By JAMES POLLARD
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/24/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/24/23 06:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Nov. 2022 Fox News …
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3/23/23 07:21 PM
COLUMBIA - Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is inching ever closer to a presidential bid in 2024, scheduling his latest swing through early voting states before returning home afterward to give donors a "political update."
According to …
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By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press | 3/23/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press | 3/23/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA — A mother whose son was found dead in the middle of a South Carolina road eight years ago is opening a private investigation into his death after raising almost $90,000 amid the …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press | 3/22/23 12:46 PM
Associated Press | 3/22/23 12:46 PM
COLUMBIA (AP) — The legislative fallout over a $3.5 billion accounting blunder by South Carolina's comptroller general took a new turn Tuesday as lawmakers moved to make his job a gubernatorial …
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By JAMES POLLARD
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/21/23 06:59 PM
Associated Press/Report for America | 3/21/23 06:59 PM
CONWAY (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. John Jenrette, a colorful politician who was convicted in the Abscam bribery scandal in the late 1970s and whose wife talked to Playboy about an in-session dalliance on the U.S. Capitol steps, has died. He was …
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3/21/23 06:00 AM
NORTH CHARLESTON (AP) — Republicans who are seeking to lead their party in the 2024 presidential race gathered in South Carolina this weekend with a goal at the forefront of their agenda: …
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3/20/23 04:18 PM
COLUMBIA (AP) — A South Carolina school district said a ninth grader walking in a hallway was stopped during a moment of silence and not the Pledge of Allegiance, as the student had said in a …
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3/20/23 04:14 PM
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources released 16 more tagged coyotes statewide recently as part of the Coyote Harvest Incentive Program. This program was created in 2016 by the General Assembly, which directed SCDNR to develop and implement a …
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3/18/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA- South Carolina lawmakers angry about a $3.5 billion accounting blunder by the state's comptroller general began efforts Thursday to sack the official, a day after demanding he quit or be fired.
Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom told …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press | 3/17/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press | 3/17/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina's state comptroller should be fired over a $3.5 billion accounting error and the office he runs should be gutted, lawmakers investigating the mistake said in a …
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3/15/23 07:15 PM
COLUMBIA - The debate in the South Carolina House about the state's $13.8 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year isn't going as smoothly as previous years.
But the conflict isn't over how much of a raise to give state employees and …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press | 3/15/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press | 3/15/23 06:00 AM
MYRTLE BEACH (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and …
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3/14/23 02:42 PM
COLUMBIA (AP) - An Army trainee who left a base in South Carolina without permission last year and briefly held a group of children hostage at gunpoint aboard a school bus has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
The decision agreed to by …
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3/14/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA - The parents of a ninth-grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press | 3/11/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press | 3/11/23 06:00 AM
STAFF REPORT
Don't miss out on this year's Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic, South Carolina's largest hunting, fishing and outdoor expo, coming to the State Fairgrounds, 1200 Rosewood Drive, Columbia, on Friday-Sunday, March 24-26.
This year's …
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3/11/23 06:00 AM
COLUMBIA (AP) — Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh on Thursday filed a notice to appeal his convictions for the murder of his wife and son along with his life sentence.The trial in rural South …
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3/9/23 07:39 PM
COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina House on Thursday approved a $1.3 billion package to help attract a new electric vehicle plant backed by the Volkswagen Group to a site near Columbia.The plan …
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3/9/23 03:12 PM
COLUMBIA - A former utility executive who gave rosy projections on the progress of two nuclear power plants in South Carolina while they were hopelessly behind will spend 15 months in prison for the doomed project that cost ratepayers billions of …
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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press | 3/9/23 06:00 AM
Associated Press | 3/9/23 06:00 AM
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