WASHINGTON -- If Andrew Jackson created the notion of a president's "Kitchen Cabinet," Sen. John McCain is reinventing it months before his possible election to the White House.

MYRTLE BEACH -- Tea is Southern wine.

With local gas prices hovering near $4 per gallon, Chester Police Chief Mike Brown asked his officers to ride bicycles or walk.

East Town residents are renewing their neighborhood's landscape to make it look like the days of old.

Ebenezer Grill's hot dog-eating champ Dale Corzine had one goal Friday: retaining his title.

COLUMBIA -- Economic bad times are everywhere in South Carolina, but you wouldn't know it by soaring lottery-ticket sales. The state-run games have raked in more cash over the past six months, up 3 percent statewide from the same period, January to June, one year ago.

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COLUMBIA -- State Department of Natural Resources officers continue to search by air and boat for a Red Bank couple last seen Saturday on their boat in Lake Murray, agency spokesman Lt. Robert McCullough said.

COLUMBIA -- The remains of a South Carolina pilot, whose fighter plane was shot down during the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to his family.

COLUMBIA -- A nearly full moon lit the Afghan sky as a rocket screamed over Lt. Tony Hedrick's hut and slammed into a building next to his base.