All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 9 2017 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Jan 3 2017 // South Carolina will get an additional $65 million in federal aid to help the state rebuild after Hurricane Matthew.The State newspaper of Columbia reports the Department of Housing and Urban Development grant is part of a...
Jan 3 2017 // South Carolina investigators are sorting out why a logging truck plowed into a Greer auto repair shop, sending six people to the hospital and smashing 11 other vehicles. The Greer Police Department says it happened Friday,...
Dec 22 2016 // North Carolina ranks the worst of all 50 states when it comes to insurance regulation, according to a 2016 insurance regulation report card by an insurance industry think tank.The R Street Institute’s 2016 Insurance...
Dec 14 2016 // South Carolina’s environmental protection agency is taking steps to ban experimental plastic seawalls once touted as a way to protect oceanfront property without erosion. The State newspaper reports that the...
Dec 7 2016 // Authorities say one worker is dead and two other injured after a pipe with hot chemicals burst at a plant that makes plastics used in bottles in Calhoun County, S.C.Coroner Donnie Porth told media outlets that the solution...
Dec 7 2016 // Authorities say a train carrying BMWs from an automaking plant in South Carolina derailed on Sunday and that 97 of the vehicles were damaged. Multiple media organizations report that the train carrying nearly 100 cars was...
Dec 6 2016 // South Carolina’s Upstate region remains in drought conditions despite rain in recent days. A new drought map issued by the state on Thursday finds Oconee, Pickens and Anderson counties still in severe drought...
Dec 5 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Nov 18 2016 // A South Carolina church that owned the bus involved in a collision that killed four people in September was ordered on Monday to stop for-hire operations, federal authorities said.Sandy River Baptist Church failed to make...
Nov 17 2016 // The Double R Farm in South Carolina has produced abundant crops for four generations of Rabon family farmers here, and despite the double whammy of record rains during the October harvest last year and last month’s...
Nov 14 2016 // Lighthouse Management LLC has appointed Laura Vizzini as marketing representative for North Carolina.Vizzini comes to Lighthouse with seven years of experience in the insurance industry having worked as a sales agent, team...
Nov 1 2016 // Authorities are urging residents in North Myrtle Beach to be wary of scammers who claim to be part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and offer to help remove debris in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. The North...
Oct 28 2016 // As the last river finally falls below major flood stage near the coast, a rapidly worsening drought is killing crops and causing hard-to-fight wildfires in rugged terrain in western North Carolina and South Carolina.The...
Oct 26 2016 // South Carolina Director of Insurance Ray Farmer has extended consumer protections provided under an emergency regulation order to 15 additional South Carolina counties with damage resulting from Hurricane Matthew.Farmer...
Oct 26 2016 // As one part of South Carolina continues to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew, another area is suffering a drought.The Greenville News reports Upstate residents are being asked to conserve by limiting...
Oct 24 2016 // South Carolina Department of Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers says crops in some areas of the state may have sustained as much damage from Hurricane Matthew as they did from last year’s historic flooding.The...
Oct 19 2016 // David Outlaw was a survivor, so much so that his brother can’t believe how he died, drowning in a puddle, pinned underneath his wheelchair after being left alone at the height of Hurricane Matthew to smoke outside...
Oct 14 2016 // It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is just...
Oct 11 2016 // Hurricane Matthew is gone, but the disaster it unleashed will slowly unfold this week as rivers across eastern North Carolina rise to levels unseen since a similar deluge flooded thousands of homes and businesses during...