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Waste lobbyists and former senator Tommy Moore stands in the lobby of the legislature with fellow waste lobbyist Robert Adams.

SC State House for sale

Former legislators often return as lobbyists with connections and clout. Reformers want to stop the revolving door.

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College of Charleston helps bust source of fake IDs

Days before his graduation from the College of Charleston, Grant Monahan plopped a case of Bud Light onto the counter of a convenience store near campus and turned over his driver’s license. 2 hours ago

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SC Politics

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, left, with his father U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson.

Joe and Alan Wilson: Father and son

An online exclusive from Lake Murray and Northeast magazines. A conversation with Joe and Alan Wilson 3 hours ago

Sports

Atlanta Braves earn soggy sweep over L.A. Dodgers

Ramiro Pena got a fierce wakeup call with the bases loaded and the scored tied in the eighth inning. 1 hour ago

Business

Projects borrowed against future meal-tax revenue could cover: From top to bottom, a baseball park on Bull Street, a splash pad at Finlay Park, a whitewater park along the Columbia Canal.

Hungry groups want their bite of Columbia’s meal-tax millions

The annual frenzy over who should get some of the millions in meal-tax revenue is even more intense this year as Columbia City Council retools how it spends the money and considers a new multimillion-dollar bond to pay for undisclosed “legacy... 2 hours ago

Living

"Le grand C" Compagnie XY Portés acrobatiques

Spoleto Festival USA’s talking points

Here are the performances, including “Le Grand C” by Compagnie XY, that Spoleto patrons will be talking about

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Scoppe: Ethics reform: At a crossroads

A YEAR AFTER political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical crossroads. What happens in the ...

Military

Harold Jones and Pat Revels stand next to a monument honoring World War II aviators. Both were instrumental in helping get the monument up. Jones raised $15,000 in public and private donations last fall to make it happen. "It's something people should be proud of," said Revels.

New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia base

Harold Jones hopes a new monument for aviators he considers forgotten heroes of World War II attracts sightseers to a quiet area near Columbia Metropolitan... 3 hours ago

Nation/World

Donny McGee was arrested for murder in 2001 after a Chicago police officer and a detective fabricated a polygraph result and false confession and spent three years in prison before being acquitted in a jury trial in 2004. McGee plays with his children in Bourbonnais, Illinois.

Glitch in widely used polygraph can skew results

Police departments and federal agencies across the country are using a type of polygraph despite evidence of a technical problem that could label ... 2 hours ago

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