State & Regional

Officials have decided a Dallas, N.C., couple will get a $30,000 award for calling in the tip that led to a man who authorities say was a serial killer who shot to death five people in South Carolina.

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.

MoveOn.org is planning to rally at the office of South Carolina's senior senator over health care reform.

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

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

The chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday she is retiring because she has early onset Alzheimer's disease and doesn't want her future rulings to be questioned.

The end of slavery meant a kind of beginning for the family histories of many African-Americans: For the first time, the enslaved people's identities and family connections became part of a public record. And the huge task of recording that data fell to the federal Freedmen's Bureau.

The Shriners will continue treating children in all 22 cities where they operate hospitals, but some of the facilities may be downgraded to outpatient surgical centers and the sale or lease of real estate will be explored, the nonprofit's new CEO said Thursday.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has had a lot of indirect help holding on to office in the two weeks since his mysterious disappearance and revelations of a sultry yearlong affair with an Argentine woman.

The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum says it has seen a 24 percent increase in visitors from the last fiscal year.