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February 19, 2019 at 6:32 pm

South Carolina trails big, wins again 79-64 over Ole Miss

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina keeps digging a hole and then the Gamecocks keep finding a way to pull themselves out. South Carolina (14-12,...

February 16, 2019 at 5:50 am

Storm-lashed South Carolina reassesses global warming’s role VIEW

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind...

February 13, 2019 at 10:02 pm

Unclaimed $1.5 billion jackpot could put big hole in state budget

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The winner of a $1.54 billion lottery jackpot in South Carolina has yet to come forward. That means the state of...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam talks during an interview at the Governor’s Mansion, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019 in Richmond, Va. The embattled governor says he wants to spend the remaining three years of his term pursuing racial “equity.” Northam told The Washington Post that there is a higher reason for the “horrific” reckoning over a racist photograph that appeared in his medical school yearbook. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via AP) DCWAP101 DCWAP101

February 12, 2019 at 10:52 am

Blackface scandal prompts others across U.S. to confront their memories

An Iowa professor says white people may think they are honoring a black artist but they miss the long history of blackface, which insulted and...

Nation & World

February 9, 2019 at 2:48 pm

Freshman duo leads South Carolina to 77-65 win over Arkansas

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina freshmen A.J. Lawson and Keyshawn Bryant live together as roommates. And they are getting to know what the other...

Sports

February 5, 2019 at 6:04 am

Cracking a 20-year-old case, police in 2 states link victims as mother, child

The case was cracked thanks to an online DNA database, help from international police and a consultant whose work led to an arrest in the...

January 23, 2019 at 2:01 pm

South Carolina group can deny gay couples as foster parents

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government agreed Wednesday to allow federally funded foster care agencies in South Carolina to deny services to same-sex or...

January 22, 2019 at 1:52 pm

Confederate flag from S. Carolina Statehouse put on display

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The last Confederate flag to fly at the South Carolina Statehouse has quietly been put on display at a museum, ending...

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019 image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos that show youths, possibly from the diocese’s all-male Covington Catholic High School, mocking Native Americans at a rally in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP) NY520 NY520

January 21, 2019 at 2:03 pm

3 groups, many videos, many interpretations of D.C. encounter VIEW

The groups met for just a few minutes Friday at the Lincoln Memorial, an encounter captured in videos that went viral over the weekend —...

January 19, 2019 at 5:26 am

Critics seek clearer guidelines for police shooting probes

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — State police investigated all but one officer-involved shooting in South Carolina in 2018. And the one they weren't called out for...