The State

WARREN BOLTON

Bolton: Why put weight of obesity in SC just on food stamp recipients?

If Gov. Nikki Haley’s hopes to unshackle South Carolina from the grip of obesity, a paternalistic approach that singles out poor people by prohibiting them from using food stamps to buy sodas and chips isn’t enough. We need a comprehensive strategy that recognizes that the larger population...

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CINDI SCOPPE

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.

ELECTIONS IN COLUMBIA AND THE MIDLANDS

Orangeburg elections chief to lead Richland elections office

After meeting with Howard Jackson behind closed doors for about 35 minutes, the four-person Board of Elections & Voter Registration chose the Orangeburg County elections director to lead the $1.2 million office.

POLITICS

Columbia couple sues state over toddler’s sexual-reassignment surgery

The lawsuits, filed Tuesday in state and federal courts, are the first of their kind in the nation, said Ken Suggs, a Columbia-based attorney, who joined Mark and Pam Crawford and other civil-rights advocacy groups to announce the suits.

GOLF

Woods keeps it dry and wins Players Championship

Tiger Woods had the last word against Sergio Garcia by winning The Players Championship on Sunday.

CRIME

Prosecution: Brett Parker was ‘a man at the end of his rope’

Testimony in the double murder trial began Wednesday with opening statements from attorneys, a recording of a frantic 911 call and emotional testimony from a Richland County Sheriff’s Department victim’s advocate who accompanied the Parker family as they told two children their mother...

CRIME

Opening arguments Wed. in double-murder trial of Irmo bookie

Prosecutors want to focus on affair; judge might not allow it.