COLUMBIA Gov. Mark Sanford agreed Thursday to remove the last hurdle to a long-delayed House of Representatives impeachment investigation of his travel and campaign expenses.

SPARTANBURG Three former officials in a South Carolina county already plagued by scandal will stand trial in February, a federal judged ruled Thursday.

CHARLESTON Eager elected officials statewide have acted with lightning speed to please Boeing, but Charleston County Council might have breached a threshold of transparency when it took up the company's economic incentive package this week.

JAMES ISLAND James Island residents say the trees along Harbor View Road look like extras in a slasher film — they've been butchered, decapitated and chainsawed.

TEGA CAY Tega Cay mayor-elect George Sheppard has a plan to finance the city's upcoming special election without tapping into a lean contingency fund – he's going to pay for it himself, he said.

COLUMBIA Unfamiliar to many longtime environmentalists, the S.C. Natural Resources Society bills itself as a friend of conservation.

COLUMBIA Don Henderson bought a contract in South Carolina's prepaid college tuition program for his daughter seven years ago, feeling secure enough in that financial decision to retire from his job as a Charlotte firefighter.

The monthly meeting of the York County chapter of Disabled Veterans scheduled for Monday night has been canceled.

MC Faulkner loves the days when her classes at Northwestern High School start two hours late.

GREENVILLE The Greenville Housing Authority “saved or created” 118 jobs by use of federal stimulus money, according to the Obama administration.

Grass growing in front yards. Cars parked behind houses instead of on lawns. Empty beer cans? Only a few.

WASHINGTON Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to influence domestic immigration and health care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.

BRANCHVILLE, S.C. The results of a town council election in South Carolina have been thrown out.

CHARLOTTE A South Charlotte man was shot in his own driveway in South Charlotte, The Herald's news partner WSOC-TV reports.

FLORENCE, S.C. The military has honored a South Carolina soldier nearly six decades after he went missing in action in North Korea.

If South Carolina passes a new law requiring schools to perform criminal background checks on substitute teachers, not much would change for York County's four school districts.

CONWAY, S.C. A South Carolina woman who disappeared on a Christmas shopping trip seven years ago will finally be laid to rest.

UNION, S.C. Authorities say a wall has collapsed at a high school football playoff game in northwest South Carolina and a dozen students have been taken to the hospital.

Rock Hill elementary schools will begin vaccinating students against H1N1, more commonly known as swine flu, next week.

COLUMBIA Students at Columbia International University take their religious studies seriously, but this week they notched up their attention to holy scripture.