COLUMBIA --- Even with new lending restrictions proposed this week by the Federal Reserve, the federal government is doing too little to help homeowners already hurt by unfair mortgage practices, ...

COLUMBIA --- School districts should get more money for every impoverished child they educate, says a state-level task force charged with proposing changes to education funding.

COLUMBIA --- For South Carolina officials, it's a matter of simple math.

COLUMBIA --- The bottom line, Rep. Bill Clyburn says, is that people who work all their lives shouldn't have to keep paying taxes on their homes.

COLUMBIA --- Searching for a job here in 2008?

COLUMBIA --- Becki Gazda is the type of holiday shopper Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom likes to see.

COLUMBIA --- Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday said he doesn't plan to request across-the-board cuts from his Cabinet agencies as a response to the slowing economy.

COLUMBIA --- What some might think of as too little too late, State Rep. Bill Clyburn is taking as a positive sign.

COLUMBIA --- Rusty Marsh doesn't need to be told that South Carolina is among the states with the highest percentage of people who go hungry.

COLUMBIA --- For the first time in 20 years, South Carolina law enforcement is getting a new leader.

COLUMBIA --- Duck hunters searching the skies for game next week might have to search the ground for wetlands first, state officials said Friday.

COLUMBIA --- There is an angel among us, and its name is Cumbee Center.

COLUMBIA --- South Carolina made strides this year toward filling its classrooms with fully qualified teachers, a report to be released later this week says.

COLUMBIA --- Two weeks before Black Friday kicks off the end-of-the-year shopping season, the U.S. economy is threatening to sap the ho-ho-ho from the holidays.

COLUMBIA --- A double dose of reality has intruded on the dream lawmakers dubbed the Hydrogen Infrastructure Development Act.

COLUMBIA --- South Carolina law enforcement has apprehended 100 suspected Internet child predators since soliciting minors for sexual activity became a crime in 2004, Attorney General Henry ...

COLUMBIA - Looking only at the bottom line, everything is just status quo.

COLUMBIA - Angling for a spot in the state Senate, Rep. Bill Clyburn got a boost Saturday from presidential candidate John Edwards, whom Mr. Clyburn is supporting.

COLUMBIA - More than 100 South Carolina mayors, including Aiken's Fred Cavanaugh, released an open letter to presidential candidates Friday stressing strong concern over global warming and asking ...

COLUMBIA - The national Humane Society is doubling its reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone involved in animal fighting to $5,000, in hopes of encouraging more informants to ...