Financial & Business

Private air service NetJets Inc. says it will lay off up to 495 pilots nationwide because of a decrease in demand.

Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens.

A federal judge has ruled that a tobacco industry attempt to block new restrictions on marketing tobacco has little chance of succeeding.

Two South Carolina aviation companies say they are entering into a joint venture that will mean 50 new jobs for the Myrtle Beach area.

Federal prosecutors are giving a South Carolina poultry plant facing immigration violations two years to get in line with federal practices.

A South Carolina poultry plant raided by immigration agents last year has agreed to change its hiring practices to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

A $750 million Boeing 787 assembly plant is expected to bring thousands of badly needed jobs to South Carolina's ailing economy and, officials hope, a closer look at the state by other industrial prospects.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he expects Boeing's decision to build a jet airliner plant in North Charleston will benefit the entire state.

Many states declare students to have grade-level mastery of reading and math when they do not, the Education Department reported Thursday.

Matt Gettmann began working in finance at Boeing Co. last year, and it wasn't long before he found himself watching, stunned, as union members prepared for what became an eight-week strike.

Competition between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts has gone beyond mochas and lattes to high-level executives.

South Carolina legislators have approved an economic incentive package believed to be tailored to lure a Boeing Co. assembly plant to the state.

Competition between Starbucks Coffee Co. and Dunkin' Donuts has gone beyond mochas and lattes to corporate executives.

Boeing Co. will open a second assembly line for its long-delayed 787 jetliner in South Carolina, expanding beyond its longtime manufacturing base in Washington state to take advantage of economic incentives and a nonunion work force.

A union leader says he doesn't think a South Carolina steel mill will reopen before 2011.