Gina Smith

S.C. legislators won’t return to work Tuesday after the state’s top court narrowly ruled Monday that Gov. Nikki Haley lacks the authority to order them back into session during a weeklong break.

Independents and Democrats could not vote in South Carolina’s high-profile, first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary if some GOP lawmakers get their way.

SC governor denies she is tied to tax probe  The State

More than half of the S.C. state representatives who voted in favor of a school choice bill that passed the House have received campaign donations from New York businessman and school-choice advocate Howard Rich and his affiliated companies.

Gov. Nikki Haley’s 14-year-old daughter is working in the State House gift shop, raising questions about nepotism that the governor’s office declines to answer.

An Ohio man has received a confidential settlement following a 2009 alligator attack in which his arm was bitten off.

E-Verify system fails to stop illegal workers in SC  The State

A handful of S.C. charter schools — finally in new school buildings — are poised to pay out millions in taxpayer dollars to middlemen, developers and foreign investors who want green cards.

Chapter 2 of new Holocaust book: Children captured by Nazis  The State

New book tells true story of couple who, as young people, survived Hitler’s death camps, then moved to Columbia, SC where they became beloved community members.