Top Stories
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SC has ‘significant problem’ with prescription-drug abuse, report says
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Richland County council may decide Tuesday whether to pay election lawyer bills
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Smarter signals promise less Lexington County road jams
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United restarts 787 flights after battery fix
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Columbia’s suburban poor on the rise, nearly doubling in a decade
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Alan Wilson wants IRS-targeted groups to come forward
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Nikki Haley's husband back home for leave from deployment
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Calls poured in to consumer affairs agency over SC tax record hacking
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Pressure forges second ring
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Brett Parker says Capnerhurst was assailant, but witnesses testify he avoided firearms
One by one, family and friends of a man slain in an Irmo bookie’s home testified Monday that he never owned a gun and did not like to be around them.
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SC eyeing Oregon for solution to meth lab explosion
Making methamphetamine is as easy as shopping at a store where the highly addictive drugs ingredients from cold medicine to batteries and soda bottles to cook the drug in are available.
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Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb, kills 51
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At...
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Evacuation order lifted after Newberry County tanker fire
Firefighters doused the flames with foam and water, Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said. The road remains blocked, and crews continue to clean up spilled ammonium nitrate.
Featured
This week's best staff photographs, May 20, 2013
A selection of photographs from The State staff.
Sports
Griffins stacked with returnees
HERE IS HOW Midlands football teams in Class 2A and 1A should fare this season:
Living
Spoleto Festival USA’s talking points
Here are the performances, including “Le Grand C” by Compagnie XY, that Spoleto patrons will be talking about
Opinion
Scoppe: Don’t delay finishing off Budget and Control Board
Since the House and Senate both have passed legislation to abolish the hermaphroditic Budget and Control Board, you’d think they could mark that off their to-do list. You’d be wrong.













