All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 25 2010 // Boating deaths in South Carolina this year have already surpassed the total in 2009, and safety officials are worried with the Memorial Day weekend approaching.The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported that, as of last Friday,...
May 24 2010 // A federal jury in South Carolina has awarded $14.5 million in damages to a South Carolina printing company against The Hartford insurance company in a case where the insurer believed a claim for a major fire loss in 2008...
May 18 2010 // Federal experts say a small earthquake struck near the South Carolina coast last week.The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake occurred about 6 miles south southeast of Summerville shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday. It...
May 13 2010 // South Carolina firefighters urged legislators this week to uphold a construction code requiring that new homes be equipped with fire sprinklers in a debate that pits safety against cost.They urged senators to defeat a...
May 7 2010 // A man suspected of burning down a Maine coffee shop that featured topless waitresses has been arrested in South Carolina.Prosecutors say Raymond Bellavance Jr. was arrested Wednesday in a rural part of Spartanburg County....
May 5 2010 // Motorists zipping along a stretch of Interstate 95 South Carolina may soon find themselves on camera.The Beaufort Gazette reported Sunday that officials in Ridgeland have inked a five-year deal to set up automated speed...
Apr 13 2010 // May 1, 2010 is the deadline for agents licensed in South Carolina to complete their first-ever producer license renewal process and become compliant with their ongoing continuing education requirements.Compliance...
Mar 31 2010 // South Carolina’s former state insurance director is running for lieutenant governor.Eleanor Kitzman announced she’s running as a Republican. The 53-year-old Columbia resident notes she’s the only...
Mar 22 2010 // Kentucky Shock“Shame on you for the blatant, arrogant, self-effacing abuses. Equally shocking is for the board to allow executives involved in the oversight of such abuses to remain.” —Cold Spring Mayor Mark...
Mar 22 2010 // Officials at a South Carolina university say a fire in a building that featured high-tech classrooms will cost at least $4.5 million to repair. The Herald of Rock Hill reported that Winthrop University officials said it...
Mar 19 2010 // A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday in South Carolina accuses eye clinics across the country of performing surgeries on patients with pre-existing conditions that should have excluded them as candidates, causing those...
Mar 17 2010 // South Carolina’s highest court has overturned an $18 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. in a fatal crash, ruling that one expert shouldn’t have been allowed to testify about cruise control problems.Sonya...
Mar 17 2010 // The father of a firefighter who died in a 2007 furniture store blaze that killed nine firefighters says families will meet with state fire investigators next week to discuss whether criminal negligence was involved in the...
Mar 15 2010 // Nearly a year after the state’s worst wildfire, forest managers and landowners have asked legislators to give them more protection from lawsuits when they intentionally set fires to reduce debris that could fuel...
Mar 12 2010 // South Carolina motorists who are caught sending or reading text messages while they drive would be fined $25 under legislation that won key House approval this week.With a 98-18 vote, the House gave second reading to a...
Mar 11 2010 // A complex federal study of a fire that killed nine South Carolina firefighters, already delayed by months, is still months from completion, authorities said.The National Institute of Standards and Technology in...
Mar 10 2010 // Families of eight firefighters killed battling a South Carolina furniture store fire almost three years ago have settled with another group of lawsuit defendants for more than $1.2 million.The June 18, 2007, fire at the...
Mar 10 2010 // Seven years after South Carolina changed the way it required drivers to prove their eyesight is adequate, the state has failed to establish a system of notifying people when they need to take vision tests or track who has...
Mar 7 2010 // A seasonal worker is entitled to workers compensation benefits for an injury sustained after falling at a housing complex supplied by his employer, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. The court sided with the...
Mar 7 2010 // The coastal home insurance market continues to tighten. State Farm is only writing a new homeowners policy in Mississippi if another is dropped and Allstate has stopped writing mobile homes on the South Carolina coast....