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Eckstrom: White House stimulus numbers don’t add up

The Obama Administration says that federal stimulus legislation has created more than 8,000 jobs in South Carolina, but state [...]

Terrorists coming to SC?

The Pentagon flat out denies it, but reports surfaced Friday that up to 10 suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba [...]

SC Republicans work to elect Va. gov.

In the off-year abyss of post-presidential elections, politicos across the country look for something — anything — to keep [...]

Don’t spam on Facebook

Spammers who use the social networking website Facebook to send junk messages to unsuspecting users now have 711 million [...]

Sanford signs Boeing incentive package

Gov. Mark Sanford Friday took the final step in solidifying what he called the “largest announcement in South Carolina history” by [...]

USC unveils new basketball uniforms

The University of South Carolina Thursday unveiled a brand new uniform design for their men’s basketball team. And the [...]

Bauer takes first step toward gov run

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer gave disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford until the end of October to resign and let him ascend to the state’s top [...]

Washingtonians bitter about Boeing

Boeing Wednesday sternly rebuked its home state of Washington when the company chose to locate its new Dreamliner [...]

Columbia City Council: The definition of sad irony

Columbia’s seven dwarfs are at it again. As if taking yet another idea from a book on how to run a city’s economy into [...]

A firecracker felony?

When 19-year-old Amber Willbur lit up a firecracker on the Columbia College campus Monday to celebrate her birthday [...]

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