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They come in search of Twelve Oaks, and aren’t real happy to instead find “12 Years a Slave.”
The Charleston mayor’s race officially kicks off at noon Monday, when filing for the November election closes.
The official website for the SCE&G class-action lawsuit is warning South Carolina residents to beware of a scam.
The more Mark Sanford warns us about looming dark days, the more he sounds like The Dark Knight.
Eric Watson began to form his ideas about community policing as a teenager.
If Dorchester County needs a campaign slogan for its November bond referendums, it should try this: SLOW GROWTH — VOTE YES.
Your SCE&G settlement check is on the way. Don't spend it all in one place, South Carolina.
Unfortunately, Dylann Roof wasn’t an outlier — there are hundreds more like him.
On Sunday, the Charleston congressman posted a short video on Twitter showing his phone screen as he searched for Donald Trump’s account and — gasp — unfollowed the president.
Charleston police take this seriously, but they face some serious challenges in this latest palmetto rose squabble. There’s a long history here.
Anyone looking for steady work that pays well should apply to the South Carolina Department of Corrections ... as a defense attorney.
Nikki Haley fans were no doubt thrilled to learn she is now one of America’s top 10 most admired women.
Federal Judge Bruce Hendricks heard a disturbing statistic from the DEA in March: The Lowcountry’s opioid overdose rate is 240 percent higher than the national average.
A new study says South Carolina is the 10th most obese state in the nation. And there are reasons why our skinny jeans don't quite fit.
The Charleston Animal Society finds itself in a most unlikely place — the doghouse.
The moon was just 75 feet away — not close enough to touch, but near enough to kill them.
Four candidates for Charleston mayor walk into City Hall …
Cheated out of an expected presidential bid – literally – Mark Sanford says now, a decade later, it might be his moment to hit the trail.
For real, this time.
Traffic will likely be a bear for most of the week, so plan your commute accordingly.
Just when he’d reached the peak of his popularity among Republican primary voters, practically assuring himself of another term, our senior senator had to mouth off and sound all reasonable.
Summerville Mayor Wiley Johnson says he won’t seek a second term this year, and that has all of Flowertown talking.
So, when President Donald Trump made Nikki Haley an offer she couldn’t refuse, he may have been settling some family business.
Donald Trump predicted this Madness.
Well, this is just what southwestern Berkeley County needs — another 5,700 homes for volunteer firefighters to protect.
Republicans are already lining up to challenge congressman Joe Cunningham, apoplectic that they lost the 1st District seat last year to a Democrat.
The survivors will tell these stories for generations.
Charleston officials ask residents to give 'em a call when their house floods — and yes, that’s when, not if.
State Sen. Gerald Malloy recently suggested it’s time for voters to decide whether South Carolina is finally game for casinos.
Nikki Haley was in Jerusalem this week, attending a conference on U.S.-Israel relations, visiting the Western Wall — and polishing her image as a world leader.
Meanwhile, 6,000 miles away, other folks were doing their best to make her one.
South Carolina Democrats feel pretty good about this past weekend.
Some Charleston parents are less than thrilled that the school district asks local clergy to bless its sex education curriculum.
Poor Lindsey Graham.
Due to popular demand, and a good bit of peer pressure, there will now be a police officer in every school in the city of Charleston.
On this day, Coretta Scott King was in town to lead yet another march, an event that attracted the network news and The New York Times. King was appeared as a show of solidarity and support for more than 500 workers — most of them poor, nearly all of them black — from the Medical College and the county hospital.
The folks on Mount Pleasant Town Council may bicker now and then but there are some truths that transcend even political rivalry.
One day, Charleston’s greatest soap opera will come to a merciful end.
Nikki Haley is publishing a new book this fall, and she’s going to Iowa next week — so of course she’s running for president. Right?
The hand-drawn map shows Ansonborough as originally subdivided and laid out to the specifications of Lord Anson.
Charleston City Council members are bound to get some grief from Johns Island residents for allowing 698 new houses to be built there.
A man who applied to oversee South Carolina’s colleges and universities was recently grilled by state officials about his views on … the Confederacy.
“The irony of the story is that Charleston is the cradle of the Confederacy, but the memorial was for Union soldiers. It shows the richness of Charleston history.”
Elliott Summey says there will soon be a full-time police officer at every elementary school in Charleston — even if the county has to pay for it.
One of South Carolina’s greatest natural assets is also wildly dangerous to its residents — and this is a good weekend to remind folks of that.
Wesley Donehue apparently doesn't know his retail clientele very well.
It’s a simple question.
Charleston City Council members say their audit of Mayor John Tecklenburg’s office is not political, isn’t personal, and has absolutely nothing to do with his wife.
If you thought Nancy Mace was tough because she was the first woman to go through The Citadel, you don’t know the half of it.
Democratic presidential candidates, you have a problem.
As Charleston sat through its regularly scheduled Wednesday morning gridlock, county officials were at the Statehouse awaiting a technicality needed to finish Interstate 526.
You have to wonder what voters see in state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch. Because nearly everything he does is the opposite of local sentiment.