MORNING HEADLINES | Authorities this week arrested four youths and two adults after a Fourth of July block party in North Charleston’s Chicora-Cherokee neighborhood. The city-permitted block party ...

MORNING HEADLINES | Gas prices are continuing to fall after a springtime spike and a holiday weekend plateau. The average price of gas in South Carolina over the weekend held steady at about $3.446 ...

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On Saturday, we as a nation celebrated the country’s semiquincentennial. Most of you haven’t heard of it by that phrase, as it doesn’t “roll off the tongue” as the phrase “Bicentennial” did 50 years ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected ...

South Carolina House and Senate negotiators remained deadlocked over tax breaks and earmarks this week, allowing the new ...

What better time for a careful, considered reading of the Declaration of Independence. Two hundred and fifty years after our founding fathers penned this document, it continues to inspire freedom ...

Here’s an out-of-the-way monument somewhere in South Carolina. Where is it? For bonus points, why is it important? Send in your best guess – and your name and hometown – to ...

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Independence Day doesn’t always have to mean the music of “The 1812 Overture” blasting over an exploding sky or sitting through a selection of old-timey marching band tunes.