Gov. Nikki Haley says she won’t attend a Senate meeting next week to discuss why her handpicked environmental protection board supports deepening the port of Savannah – even as questions continue about campaign contributions she received from Georgia residents.Thirteen days before state environmental regulators reversed course and struck a last-minute deal with Georgia officials to autho...

Gov. Nikki Haley is in fundraising mode, raising more than $223,000 during the third quarter, much of it from out-of-state donors during fundraisers. The amount raised is more than four times the amount Haley raised the previous quarter while the General Assembly was still in session.The donations

, fundraisers and work schedules across the Midlands this fall.Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, for example, tries to...

Eddie Floyd, one of the state's most influential Republican fundraisers. Floyd introduced Perry at Car...

Republican White House hopefuls condemned President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy from the opening moments of their first major debate of the campaign season Monday night, and pledged emphatically to repeal his historic year-old health care overhaul. “When 14 million Americans are out of work, we need a new president to end the Obama Depression,” declared former House...

Relatives hope two fundraisers will bring new information into the case of a New York teen reported missing two years ago in Myrtle Beach.Carol Wagner is planning the events in Myrtle Beach on Thursday and Saturday to raise money for search efforts for her granddaughter, Brittanee Drexel.Dozens

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who's considering a 2012 presidential run, is scheduled to have two private meetings with Republican leaders Wednesday in the early primary state of South Carolina.South Carolina political consultant Chip Felkel said he has known Barbour through the GOP for more than 20 years and is organizing the events. Felkel told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he expects 2...

The Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital is forming a partnership with Carnival Cruise lines, which sails regularly from Charleston.Hospital and Carnival officials gather Monday to make the announcement.The partnership will include a number of in-kind and monetary donations by the line as well as fundraisers.Last May the 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy arrived in Charleston, b...

The Secretary of State's office has released its annual "Scrooges and Angels" list of charities in South Carolina.The list honors charities that give most of their money to their goals and punishes those who give the most to fundraisers.Among the angels are Family Promise of Beaufort County, Cheer for Children in Rock Hill, Fields to Families in Ladson, the Horry County Museum Foundation in Conway...

Home alone, President Barack Obama turned 49 on Wednesday.First lady Michelle Obama has taken their youngest daughter, Sasha, to Spain. Their other daughter, Malia, is away at summer camp.Obama hasn't shied away from talking about his birthday, noting that his hair is getting grayer and his metabolism is slowing down as another year passes. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says that while ...

with his lower spending rate -- $130,000 -- Bauer has as much money as the two leading fundraisers, U....