While the Rock Hill school district's high-school dropout rate has not returned to the lower levels of two years ago, it apparently is moving in the right direction again.

President Barack Obama was right to resist an early deadline imposed by congressional Republicans for a decision on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The following editorial appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Wednesday:

In case you've been out of the country for the past several years, former Republican Gov. Mark Sanford "hit the trail" and Nikki Haley became our tea party governor.

A recent riot at a state prison near Ridgeville raises questions once again about whether the Department of Corrections has the resources to run the state's prisons.

President Barack Obama opened and closed Tuesday's State of the Union speech with an emphasis on one of his strong suits, foreign policy. In between, however, he used the speech to highlight domestic issues and set the tone for the fall campaign.

The last time the board of the Department of Health and Environmental Control needed a new director, it knew exactly where to look: in the office of legislative and constituent services, aka, its lobbyist.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona has continually demonstrated her courage in the marathon effort to come back from head wounds suffered when she was shot during an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago.

A plan by Georgia to dump toxic sludge from the dredging of the Savannah River port project onto the site of a future Jasper County port site adds insult to injury. It makes us wonder whose environment the S.C.

Message from South Carolina voters: The race for the GOP presidential nomination isn't over yet!