When the power goes out in South Carolina, chances are a union member repairs that line.

A South Carolina adoption case is pitting the couple who nurtured a 2-year-old girl against the child's biological father, a Cherokee Nation tribal member who took her back to Oklahoma after winning custody of her.

An advocacy group's lawsuit accusing South Carolina's prisons agency of violating the rights of mentally ill inmates is getting a hearing.

A South Carolina adoption case is pitting the couple who nurtured a 2-year-old girl against the child's biological father, a Cherokee Nation tribal member who took her back to Oklahoma after winning custody of her.

Philip Gibbs Grose, whose life balanced the dual roles of trusted South Carolina political insider and journalist-author, died Friday of leukemia. He was 73.

The Budget and Control Board is a uniquely South Carolina institution built on the assumption that all wisdom resides in the Legislature and designed — like most of the government, only more so — to ensure that governors could not govern.

"I can't find out where the man spent the night and who paid the bill. Wouldn't you think such simple housekeeping would be easy?"

After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.