No blowing smoke: Group discusses SC cigarette tax The State | CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Doctors and an anti-smoking group discuss efforts to raise South Carolina's 7-cent-a-pack cigarette tax that is the lowest in the nation. | Representatives of the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative and doctors gather at the Medical University of South Carolina on Monday to ta...
Budget cuts could cost 1,000 state jobs The State | Budget cuts could cost at least 1,000 state workers their jobs, if the S.C. House approves the $5.1 billion plan now before it. | Job losses could he even higher. | State agencies said they still are deciding how to deal with the proposed spending plan for the budget year that starts July 1, and t...
City lawyer: Best to delay election to replace Cromartie The State | Columbia City Attorney Ken Gaines is recommending City Council hold a special election after April 6th to fill the unexpired term of Councilman E.W. Cromartie. | The State Election Commission told council members yesterday they had to schedule the ...
SC, GA soldiers killed in Iraq vehicle rollover The State | COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Two soldiers from South Carolina and Georgia have been killed in a vehicle rollover in Iraq. | The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that 25-year-old Sgt. Aaron Arthur, of Lake City and 23-year-old Spc. Lakeshia Bailey of ...
SC Guard taps 2 for soldier awards The State | COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Army National Guard has chosen a soldier from North Charleston and another from Columbia to represent the state in soldier of the year competitions. | South Carolina Adjutant General Stanhope Spears said Wednesd...
Small SC town acquires depot for makeover The State | CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A small South Carolina town that was the first taste of the Marine Corps for hundreds of thousands of recruits is acquiring the train depot where they arrived for a half century. | The hamlet of Yemassee is about 35 miles northw...
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Dubai tower shut after visitors stuck in elevator China Daily | DUBAI: Visitors on the observation deck of the world's tallest tower heard a loud boom, then saw dust that looked like smoke seeping through a crack in an elevator door 124 floor...
Drivers, Cars Are Ill-Equipped When Panic Sets In The New York Times | Filed at 5:40 p.m. ET | DETROIT (AP) -- You're driving down the highway and suddenly your car starts accelerating on its own. Knuckles white, going from 60 to 90 miles an hour in...
Obama touts federal help for small businesses The State | WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's bid to sell his economic agenda and re-energize voters picks up in politically significant New Hampshire, where he will again promote an id...
Experts: longer runway needed at SC resort The State | HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Experts warn that without a longer airport runway, Hilton Head Island could lose most commercial air service at the South Carolina resort within 20 years. | The Island Packet reports consultants are suggesting the runway...
Panel: Firefighting equipment at SRS is too old The State | AIKEN, S.C. -- A panel has expressed concerns about old firefighting equipment at the Savannah River Site, a former nuclear weapons complex along the South Carolina-Georgia border. | In a January letter to a U.S. Energy Department official, Defense...
Update: Local restaurant inspection data The State | We've added 84 new restaurant inspection reports from Richland, Lexington and Kershaw counties to our Restaurant Inspections database. | One restaurant received a 100 percent score in a routine, unannounced visit and seven more received 98 or 99 pe...
SC Chamber endorses Barrett, Sheheen The State | The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Republican U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett and Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen in their respective bids for governor. | The Chamber is the state's largest business-oriented advocacy group. | Barre...
Biden: Obama to make final call on terror trial The News & Observer | WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he had no doubt that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be found guilty - whether in a civilian or military courtroom. | But, Biden said, it is not clear where Mohammed and the four other Sept. 11 suspects now held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will b...
Budget cuts could cost 1,000 state jobs The State | Budget cuts could cost at least 1,000 state workers their jobs, if the S.C. House approves the $5.1 billion plan now before it. | Job losses could he even higher. | State agencies said they still are deciding how to deal with the proposed spending plan for the budget year that starts July 1, and the 1,000 job-cut figure is an incomplete, early es...
