Financial & Business

Even after a sheriff's sale, the financial and emotional strains that surround a foreclosure are rarely over.

Flour Corp. plans to add more than 100 jobs in South Carolina under a new contract to build and operate military bases in Afghanistan.

South Carolina's environmental regulators voted Thursday to turn down Duke Energy's request for a water quality permit so the utility can relicense five dams along a South Carolina river.

A company that makes hospital supplies has laid off 119 workers at its South Carolina plant.

Fluor Corp. plans to add more than 100 jobs in South Carolina under a new contract to build and operate military bases in Afghanistan.

For generations, children with clubbed feet, severe burns and other debilitating injuries have been treated for free at Shriners hospitals. That care could be in jeopardy.

Lined up outside the gates of the city's swimming pool, the children of Alexandria, Ind., began chanting "We saved the pool!"

South Carolina's top prosecutor announced Wednesday that his office has closed its investigation into possible gas price gouging in the wake of last year's Hurricane Ike, and several gas stations that were investigated have agreed to make donations to charities for hurricane relief.

An office furniture company is relocating operations from several states to South Carolina, adding 20 jobs to rural Chesterfield County over five years.

Boeing Co. will pay $580 million in cash for a plant that makes large sections of its 787 jetliner in an apparent effort to resolve supplier problems that have contributed to costly delays and hurt the company's credibility.

A South Carolina company has won two contracts to upgrade the suspension systems of more than 1,300 armored combat vehicles.

The following recalls have been announced because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems:

A South Carolina steel mill is no longer running, and officials don't know when they will start it back up.

The following recalls were announced:

California, Michigan and South Carolina suffered the most financial pain in May as unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies rose, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties.