All the headlines from our South Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 4 2008 // Scott H. Richardson, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance and chairman of the advisory committee for the South Carolina Building Codes Council, announced the fourth round of awards for the S.C. Safe Home...
Mar 4 2008 // A couple that has won multiple lawsuits over a smear campaign by a former television station news director has sued the former owner of the station looking to collect a judgment won against the company’s former...
Feb 28 2008 // Columbia, S.C. firefighters say at least a dozen Richland County hydrants have been vandalized by thieves seeking brass, leaving them not working.Deputy Chief Aubrey Jenkins says the thieves are taking the operating nuts...
Feb 24 2008 // A struggle between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and a commission that determines how much money injured workers receive is now in federal court.A restraining order blocking the state Workers’ Compensation...
Feb 24 2008 // Higginbotham & Associates, ATMDHigginbotham & Associates announced a partnership with Allred-Thompson-Mason-Daugherty (ATMD) in an effort to broaden its Texas presence. ATMD is a general lines insurance agency...
Feb 22 2008 // The fines and prison time that repeat drunken drivers face would hinge on how much alcohol they have in their bodies under a measure that received key approval Wednesday in the South Carolina Senate.Senators also decided...
Feb 20 2008 // As South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s drive to give his successors more power gains little traction among state legislators, he’s taking the quest to where some of his predecessors have gone before: the third...
Feb 20 2008 // Sumter County, S.C. fire officials are investigating the origin of a church fire that caused about $300,000 in damages and destroyed the sanctuary.No foul play is suspected. Sumter Fire Captain Brian Horton said the fire...
Feb 15 2008 // In a written statement Tuesday, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford reacted to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s refusal to strip harmful amendments from the DUI bill:“We knew going in that some on this Senate...
Feb 15 2008 // The House of Raeford boasts that its plant in Greenville, S.C., has gone more than 7 million hours without having a worker miss an entire shift because of injury.But the North Carolina-based company has met that mark by...
Feb 14 2008 // A blaze that destroyed several homes in South Carolina and led to the evacuation of 60 others started as a trash fire that was initially doused by two fire agencies, but reignited a day later into a wind-whipped 240-acre...
Feb 12 2008 // Wind-whipped wildfires chased churchgoers from worship, forced hundreds of residents to flee homes and closed highways across the rain-starved Carolinas and Virginia on Sunday.Twelve small structures, including at least...
Feb 8 2008 // A struggle between South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s office and a commission that determines how much money injured workers receive is in federal court this month.A restraining order blocking the state...
Jan 25 2008 // Sumter, S.C., fire officials say a spark from a torch being used to dismantle equipment at a warehouse led to the fire that destroyed the 30,000-square-foot building.Sumter Fire Department investigators said Wednesday the...
Jan 23 2008 // Sumter, S.C. Fire Capt. Brian Horton says one of the biggest fires he can remember has engulfed a former furniture warehouse near downtown.Authorities say it took nearly three hours to get the blaze under control Monday...
Jan 21 2008 // A South Carolina company being sued by neighbors for polluting groundwater around its plant in Myrtle Beach is asking a court to force those neighbors to help pay for testing and cleanup of contamination.AVX Corp. says in...
Jan 14 2008 // The owners of a Charleston furniture store that burned down and killed nine firefighters agreed to pay $13,110 in fines but they admitted no wrongdoing, state regulators announced last week.The Sofa Super Store was...
Jan 7 2008 // A South Carolina company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said last week.The pet food, which contained a mold called...
Jan 4 2008 // A fast-moving fire destroyed the sanctuary of a Spartanburg County, S.C. church, bringing down its steeple.The employees and construction crew inside escaped without injury when the Abner Creek Baptist Church caught fire...
Jan 3 2008 // CarInsurance.com, which sells auto insurance over the Internet, has added more carriers to its current 28 state agency product offering.In November and December 2007, the firm expanded and now offers Encompass Insurance...