A national poll once found that more Americans could name the Three Stooges than the three branches of government.

If you get something in the mail from Tecklenburg today, don’t flinch — and don’t throw it away. This time, he’s trying to put money into your wallet.

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled partisan rancor for a message from Henry McMaster.

That old Charleston drawl was unmistakable.

Sen. Tom Davis hasn't given up on his medical marijuana legislation just yet.

Part 3: In cities and towns along the U.S. / Mexico border, locals try to ignore controversy surrounding The Wall. But concertina wire and traveling militias sometimes make that impossible.

Part 2: In Tijuana, Mexico, thousands of refugees wait for their asylum hearings. 

Part 4: U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is walking along one of the oldest stretches of The Wall, outlining his answer to the nation’s $5.7 billion question. 

Part 1: Along the U.S.-Mexico border, The Wall barely slows down illegal immigration. The country's real security is the Border Patrol.

A substitute teacher in Alabama accidentally fired his gun in a first-grade classroom recently. No one was hurt, luckily.

In early February, Gov. Henry McMaster got a tour of the massive drainage tunnels Charleston is building 140 feet beneath the Crosstown.

A group of 41 Mount Pleasant residents spent more than a year painstakingly crafting a new road map for the town’s future. And now: All that work for nothing.

Our annual mass alien abduction, aka Daylight Saving Time, remains a target of politician. But not changing our clocks is more complicated than it sounds.

That wasn’t just an air horn blasting through the halls of Congress last week — it was an alarm.

9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson wants violent repeat offenders off the street, but state courts keep letting them go

A crew of North Charleston firefighters and EMTs were training on the department’s fire boat in the Ashley River last Friday.

Dominion Energy may have taken over SCE&G, but some things haven’t changed.

If you want to know how not to run an election, just take a drive up the interstate. Because North Carolina is putting on a clinic.

The party's over for Folly Gras.

State officials offered an update on the Legislature’s ambitious plan to improve schools last week, and it was … educational.

Well, this is embarrassing. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation says only 34 percent of South Carolina residents can pass an abbreviated version of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services test.

Some people are a little concerned about Lindsey Graham.

Charleston would be bone-dry if fussing and fighting could stop flooding.

Some people will say anything during a courtship to get what they want — and you know how that usually turns out.

It’s hard to believe the county has to pay someone $6 million to demolish the old Navy hospital.

Poor Mount Pleasant.

An audience at the Mount Pleasant library listens silently as three men calmly talk about violence, the crimes they’ve committed, the drugs they’ve sold — and the reason they quit.

Decorated soldier Isaac Woodard was wrongfully arrested, beaten and had his eyes gouged out by a South Carolina police chief in 1946. Now, 'it's time to right this wrong.'

Some Charleston Republicans feared their Black History Month Celebration was doomed when Ben Carson dropped out.

A few weeks ago, a Columbia anti-abortion activist sat in a legislative hearing and claimed the Bible says women aren’t fit for public office.

South Carolina teachers will get some sort of raise this year — it’s all but guaranteed.

So you’ve decided to run for president in South Carolina’s Democratic primary.

James Island is getting a brand new state-of-the-art library in September — and residents are thrilled.

When John Tecklenburg speaks these days, it sometimes sounds like he’s giving a dramatic reading of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

If anyone had predicted South Carolina might legalize medical marijuana a few years back, you would’ve sworn they were smoking something. But it could happen.

The federal government may be closed, but the Atlantic is apparently still open for business.

Tim Scott only said what many other people were already thinking.

True story: South Carolina didn’t formally endorse a woman’s right to vote until three weeks before the first man walked on the moon.

And now, Coach Henry “Dabo” McMaster’s inaugural pre-game pep talk to the General Assembly:

The folks at Nix 526 got a double dose of bad news last week.

So 2019 is off to a stellar start — 800,000 federal employees out of work, the stock market on a roller coaster and Nikki Haley lost her Twitter.

Many Republicans talk about being the big-tent party, but Larry Kobrovsky is actually planting the stakes.

Few people will mourn the passing of 2018, hereafter known as the Year of the Water.

Just when South Carolina begins to look relatively sane compared to other states, the GOP comes along and says “hold my beer.”

It was a Christmas present the entire world needed.

Brandy Hanna has been missing for more than 13 years, but she hasn’t been forgotten.

South Carolina Electric & Gas users, the check is most definitely not in the mail.

So, just about everybody in South Carolina is suing the president — except Gov. Henry McMaster.

It’s easy to beat up on the South Carolina Legislature.

The Charleston County School District is sailing into dangerous waters … again. And if the school board isn’t careful, it will end up in the same place it did last time: sunk.