The producers of ABC TV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” are looking for a deserving South Carolina family whose home deserves a major revitalization because it affects the family’s quality of life on a daily basis and the family doesn’t have the resources, ability or time to fix it. Email nominations by Friday to castingsouthcarolina@emhe.tv. Nominations must ...

By a narrow 57-54 margin, the S.C. House Wednesday morning narrowly approved a $6 billion budget for the state’s fiscal year that starts July 1.Democrats and Tea Party-minded Republicans voting against the bill.Democrats objected the final general fund budget compromise, worked out by House and state Senate budget negotiators, did not include a Senate proposal for more generous spending on ...

One of the first victims of Washington's new tough-on-spending culture is a historic preservation program that saved the flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" and preserved thousands of other fragile national treasures.A pet cause of then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Save America's Treasures" began in 1998 as a way to safeguard historical documents, films and artifacts such as the M...

For all his success in helping elect ultraconservatives to the Senate, Sen. Jim DeMint now must face the difficult consequences of one spectacular, all but certain failure. Even as DeMint says he would welcome fellow Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski back to the Senate, the South Carolinian is still urging conservative activists around the country to donate money to replace the Alaskan incumbent ...

A US Airways plane that left 15 people ill in January has again sickened passengers and crew, this time on a flight scheduled to leave Charlotte this morning.Nine people were taken to the hospital this morning from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport after complaining of symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic fumes. Two pilots, five flight attendants and two passengers were taken to Caroli...