MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Two fishermen have been rescued after they were found clinging to a life raft 20 miles off the South Carolina coast.

GREER, S.C. Two children have been removed from a South Carolina home that deputies say they found infested with roaches, and their parents have been charged with neglect.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina's Supreme Court says the ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can't be kept secret.

COLUMBIA, S.C. Two South Carolina professors will receive top honors for their teaching and advising skills.

CHIPLEY, Fla. Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.

IOWA CITY, Iowa A former Iowa man accused of killing his infant son four years ago will go on trial in 2010.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. The director of the Fayetteville VA Medical Center is retiring amid reports of dissatisfaction among employees and patients at a hospital that has struggled with adversity for more than a decade.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina's Republican U.S. senators differ on whether Guantanamo Bay detainees should be sent to North Charleston's Navy brig, but say they will work together to keep the accused terrorists out of federal courts.

RICHMOND, Va. Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

CONWAY, S.C. A man on South Carolina's death row for killing his girlfriend has been ruled competent to stand trial in a second death penalty case.

ATLANTA An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina is back among the list of states reporting the swine flu is widespread.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. South Carolina's medical board has suspended the license of a plastic surgeon who it says left an operating room for hours during surgery and had sex with staffers who became his patients.