SC State Wire

(The Center Square) – Twenty years ago this Friday, Hurricane Katrina – once a Category 5 beast – made landfall as a Category 3 first in southeastern Louisiana and then again on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The National Hurricane... Read more

(The Center Square) – Four times since Thursday major college campuses along the Atlantic Seaboard have been brought to a halt.

Four times, they’ve all been a hoax, or what is generally known as swatting.

(The Center Square) – Students resumed routines shaken but unhurt Sunday evening at the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia where a shooter was reported.

The shelter in place instruction lasted 95 minutes and lawmen from multiple agencies... Read more

(The Center Square) – On the first weekend after resumption of classes, students in Columbia at the University of South Carolina were sheltered in place Sunday evening.

A “Carolina Alert,” the campus warning system, at 7:10 p.m. said, “Urgent... Read more

(The Center Square) – Hurricane Erin has made its brush with the North Carolina coast and is crawling out into the Atlantic Ocean.

The storm that climbed from Category 1 to 5 in less than 24 hours last weekend... Read more

(The Center Square) – Outer bands of Hurricane Erin are at the shores of the Carolinas, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. report on Wednesday.

Category 2 Erin has maximum sustained winds of 110 mph and... Read more

(The Center Square) – High tide peak storm surges from Hurricane Erin are forecast from 1 to 3 feet between South Carolina and Virginia, and 2 to 4 feet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Erin at 8... Read more

(The Center Square) – Charlotte-headquartered Duke Energy would like to get federal and state permissions to enjoin Duke Energy Carolinas and Duke Energy Progress in the Carolinas, saying it could save customers more than $1 billion over 10 years.

(The Center Square) – Passenger train service involving routes to Chicago, Miami and New York is on hold because of a coal train derailment in northeastern North Carolina on Sunday.

The CSX train pulling 28 loaded cars of coal... Read more

(The Center Square) – More than $3,000 in tax cut savings is projected on average for South Carolinians, a report from The Tax Foundation says.

Long range, more than 11,000 jobs are forecast to be added in the state... Read more

(The Center Square) – Erin, once a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend that more than doubled wind speed to nearly 160 mph, on Monday morning remained on a path to miss landfall of the United States though not without forcing evacuations in North Carolina.

(The Center Square) – Erin will miss the southeastern coast, the National Hurricane Center says.

Upgraded from tropical storm to the Atlantic basin’s first hurricane of the season Friday morning, Erin at 2 p.m. Eastern was packing maximum sustained... Read more

(The Center Square) – Coastline states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina may be poised to miss a major hurricane.

The National Hurricane Center, an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, on Thursday morning was... Read more

(The Center Square) − The South continues to lead the nation in construction backlog length, suggesting strong economic performance, according to new data from Associated Builders and Contractors.

“Backlog is longer in the South because contractors are busier,” ABC... Read more

(The Center Square) - GE Appliances announced a $3 billion investment over the next five years to increase production at facilities across the country.

The appliance manufacturer, whose parent company is China-based Haier, will begin with increased production at... Read more

(The Center Square) – Major hurricane status, with wind speeds greater than 110 mph, is expected by Saturday morning just north of the Dominican Republic as Tropical Storm Erin on Tuesday churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the United States.

(The Center Square) – Southeastern coastlines of the United States are alert for the potential of Hurricane Erin as the first of the season in the Atlantic Basin.

The National Hurricane Center on Monday morning has forecast what is... Read more

(The Center Square) – A South Carolina judge has dismissed a climate change lawsuit brought by the city of Charleston against two dozen oil and gas companies.

Judge Roger Young of the Court of Common Pleas granted the companies’... Read more

(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson have taken up Texas’ fight to enforce its immigration law.

The two prosecutors, both from states where points of entry from other counties... Read more

(The Center Square) – Increased deficits for farmers and obstacles for producers seeking to enroll in the H-2A visa program are cited in a letter from a portion of the congressional delegation in the Carolinas.

Republican U.S. Sens. Ted... Read more