All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2017 // Nearly 300 residents were evacuated from a South Carolina hotel after a fire.The Morning News of Florence reports the evacuees included many permanent residents of the Suburban Extended Stay Hotel in Florence. Firefighters...
Aug 1 2017 // A trucking company has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a South Carolina trucker who burned to death last year after colliding with a gasoline tanker that was blocking a rural highway in...
Jul 18 2017 // Police in five Southeastern states are launching a weeklong program to reduce summertime wrecks and traffic deaths.“Operation Southern Shield” started Monday in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and...
Jul 18 2017 // South Carolina is one of the Southeast’s most dangerous states for motorcyclists, but bikers put the blame on a range of problems from bad roads, inattentive motorists and inexperienced riders.The Post and Courier...
Jul 10 2017 // The bedbugs are back at a South Carolina fire station one month after an outbreak at four stations.The Charleston Fire Department said in a news release last week that bedbugs have been found at one of the stations that...
Jul 10 2017 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has set a deadline for auto insurers in the state to meet the requirements of recently passed moped safety legislation.The new moped law, which took effect July 1, amends South...
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
Jun 22 2017 // The South Carolina Department of Insurance has set a deadline for auto insurers in the state to meet the requirements of the recently passed moped safety legislation.The new moped law, which takes effect July 1, amends...
Jun 20 2017 // The PURE Group of Insurance Companies has expanded its PURE Programs excess & surplus (E&S) line offering designed to protect higher risk homes insured for $1 million or more, into South Carolina.With this...
Jun 5 2017 // The parents of a 3-year-old boy killed by a falling tree limb while playing at a South Carolina park are getting $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit. Jacoby Latta was playing during a church picnic at Irmo Community Park in...
May 31 2017 // Police forces in South Carolina have reached several high-dollar settlements in cases where officers have shot and killed drivers and others in moving vehicles in the past several years. Here are some of the most expensive...
May 22 2017 // Gov. Henry McMaster signed a moped safety law Friday that allows intoxicated drivers to be prosecuted for drunken driving and requires teens to wear a helmet.McMaster’s signature capped a seven-year effort to close...
May 15 2017 // A bill raising taxes and fees to repair South Carolina’s crumbling highways became law last week over Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto after House leaders blasted the Republican governor as failing to provide...
May 15 2017 // South Carolina Insurance Director Ray Farmer was elected to fill the position of secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners During a Plenary meeting by members, effective immediately.Farmer...
May 15 2017 // Taxpayers are spending more to settle claims for vehicles damaged and wrecked on South Carolina’s crumbling roads.The State newspaper reported that South Carolina has spent nearly $50 million since 2010 to settle...
May 11 2017 // Authorities in South Carolina say more than 50 students escaped without injury after the school bus they were riding caught fire.Local media reports say the bus was carrying students to three different Spartanburg schools...
May 5 2017 // In South Carolina, beach renourishment is a never-ending job.Currently, Edisto Beach is in the thick of its beach restoration effort as North Myrtle Beach awaits word on when its next shoreline project can begin. Folly...
May 4 2017 // Insurance companies have closed 87 percent of the 18,193 insurance claims filed in Beaufort County in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, resulting in a payout of more than $159.3 million. News outlets report that South...
May 2 2017 // The South Carolina workers’ compensation market is strong, according to the state department of insurance’s most recent report, as the first reform to the state’s workers’ comp system in almost a...
May 1 2017 // Taxpayers are spending more to settle claims for vehicles damaged and wrecked on South Carolina’s crumbling roads.The State newspaper reports Friday that South Carolina has spent nearly $50 million since 2010 to...