All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2008 // The nation’s largest firefighters union is criticizing Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joe Riley’s decision to delay a report on how nine firefighters died in a fire last June.The report by a city-appointed panel was...
May 5 2008 // Charleston, S.C. officials say the release of a report investigating the deaths of nine firefighters in a furniture store blaze has been indefinitely delayed. A panel of experts compiling the report hoped to deliver it to...
May 2 2008 // South Carolina lawmakers decided it’s OK for 15- and 16-year-olds to talk and text message on cell phones while driving.The House voted April 30 to send a measure blocking such activities back to a committee, ending...
May 1 2008 // State environmental officials say runoff from the thousands of gallons of water sprayed on a fire at a South Carolina recycling plant may have killed hundreds of fish.The facility where plastic bottles and cardboard are...
May 1 2008 // Tobacco companies would have to ensure cigarettes meet fire safety standards under legislation that has won key approval in the South Carolina House. Such cigarettes use slow-burning paper and go out when they aren’t...
Apr 25 2008 // South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford nominated State Law Enforcement Division Chief of Staff Mark Keel to become the director of the state Department of Public Safety.Prior to becoming chief of staff, Keel, 50, was captain in...
Apr 23 2008 // Officials say they now think the fire that destroyed a more than 100-year-old cotton mill in York, South Carolina is suspicious.The Herald of Rock Hill reports that York Fire Chief Domenic Manera said authorities...
Apr 22 2008 // South Carolina Gov.Mark Sanford signed a new law last week to toughen the state’s penalties for driving under the influence and to remove enforcement loopholes.The bill significantly strengthens the state’s DUI...
Apr 21 2008 // The clash between the states and the federal government over nationwide rules to make driver’s licenses more secure has ended — for now. A truce, of sorts, between the 50 states and the U.S. Department of Homeland...
Apr 21 2008 // An invasive weed that already has infested more than 1 million acres nationwide continues to spread across the parched Southeast, and experts say the region’s drought makes the highly flammable intruder more...
Apr 21 2008 // A South Carolina textile company that closed after a train wreck and toxic chemical spill in 2005 settled a lawsuit with a railroad company, ending a trial that began a month ago, an attorney for the firm said.Avondale...
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Apr 16 2008 // South Carolina officials and property owners along the eroding beach at Wild Dunes have agreed to a fine of $18,000 for the thousands of sandbags that ended up littering the state’s coast and marshes after storms...
Apr 16 2008 // A South Carolina workers’ compensation exclusivity statute did not bar an employee from filing claims for invasion of privacy and false imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital, according to a U.S. District Court...
Apr 15 2008 // Columbia, S.C. attorney, Samuel Painter, withdrew his name from consideration for a term on the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission.Painter faced repeated questions earlier this week about his involvement...
Apr 14 2008 // The widow of one of the Charleston, S.C. firefighters killed in last year’s Sofa Super Store blaze has sued the store, several furniture makers and other businesses, saying they were negligent in her husband’s...
Apr 14 2008 // An invasive weed that already has infested more than 1 million acres nationwide continues to spread across the parched Southeast, and experts say the region’s drought makes the highly flammable intruder more...
Apr 11 2008 // The clash between the states and the federal government over nationwide rules to make driver’s licenses more secure has ended — for now. A truce, of sorts, between the 50 states and the U.S. Department of Homeland...
Apr 11 2008 // Banker and insurance broker First Financial Holdings Inc. of Charleston, S.C., said Thursday its subsidiary First Southeast Insurance Services Inc. bought The Somers-Pardue Agency Inc. for $18.8 millionUnder the...
Apr 8 2008 // A South Carolina textile company that closed after a train wreck and toxic chemical spill in 2005 settled a lawsuit with a railroad company, ending a trial that began a month ago, an attorney for the firm said...