Anyone who wants to run for office as a Republican in one South Carolina county must pledge to live - and promise to have always lived -- a pretty tame life.

According to new rules just adopted by the Laurens County GOP, no candidate will wind up on the...

A Republican South Carolina lawmaker who recently dropped a congressional bid after he was arrested for harassing an ex-girlfriend is giving Valentines Day tips for guys via his Twitter page today.

Rule number four for guys looking to send their girl a card,...

A top state election official in South Carolina is disputing a recent claim that more than 950 people who voted in recent elections could actually be dead. Of the six names of so-called zombie voters her office was allowed to examine, all were eligible to vote.

The data checking came...

A high-profile South Carolina union leader said Wednesday that he doesn't see any other way for the labor movement to win the battle against an anti-union bill in Wisconsin than to call for a general workers strike if such legislation passes.

Kenny Riley, who heads up the...

On February 24, a panel of South Carolina lawmakers unanimously advanced legislation that would allow state residents who can legally own a gun to carry a concealed weapon in the state without a permit.

The bill, called "The South Carolina Law-Abiding Citizens Protection Act," has been

In South Carolina, two of the state's top executives are embroiled in scandals that - anywhere else - might have the potential to remove them from office.

When she was campaigning, newly elected Gov. Nikki Haley said if she won that she would step down from office...

It was sometime after Christmas when President Barack Obama invited John Spratt, the chairman of the Democratic administration's House Budget Committee, into the Oval Office to talk about something.

Spratt, 67, and the dean of South Carolina's congressional delegation, had been representing the Palmetto State's 5th District...

The two colors streaking across the landscape of America's 2010 midterm elections usually run red and blue, but in South Carolina's 5th District, where 14-term Democratic House Budget Chairman John Spratt is in the fight for his life against a Tea Party-powered political newcomer, the color everyone is...

Sitting in a rocking chair under a slowly swirling ceiling fan in South Carolina's 5th District is Buddy Motz, a Republican who chaired the York County Council for 12 years. Motz will be vacating his seat in December, having just recently gotten the boot from an underfunded, tea party-backed political...

There probably couldn't be a more symbolic street corner in America to describe what's happening in the midterm congressional races than the re-election campaign of U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, a powerful 14-term Democratic incumbent battling a little-known GOP state senator named Mick Mulvaney in...