COLUMBIA - The pressure will be on the South Carolina House this week to pass a bill strengthening the state's ethics laws before a legislative deadline dooms it for the year.Ethics reform...

COLUMBIA - The state Election Commission would get about $6 million to buy laptops that can speed up voting lines and to start saving for the replacement of voting machines under the House budget plan.

...elections laws and better securing taxpayers' information are priorities for Republicans and Democrats in the South Carolina House, party leaders said Thursday about the legislative session that starts next week.Whether to expand Medicaid...

...opportunity to distinguish themselves in combat, like men are able to do," said Beth Bernstein, a Democrat in the South Carolina House whose Columbia district stretches over Fort Jackson. "Women have kind of been in those situations anyway, so...

...out of consideration.Other names being mentioned are former state Attorney General Henry McMaster and former South Carolina House Speaker David Wilkins, although both those candidates were considered possible caretakers to keep the seat open...

...as Social Security numbers, a former computer security chief at the agency said Thursday.Scott Shealy told a South Carolina House committee investigating hacked tax records at the Revenue Department that he spoke to his bosses for several years...

COLUMBIA - The South Carolina House voted Tuesday to override 51 of Gov. Nikki Haley's 81 budget vetoes.Legislators voted to restore $10 million for teacher...

COLUMBIA - Gov. Nikki Haley personally accused the leader of the South Carolina House of meddling in an ethics investigation of her, a day after her staff made the same charges.He fired back by calling it an untruthful...

Underage candidate busted for drinkingFLORENCE, S.C. - The Democratic candidate for a South Carolina House seat has been charged with underage drinking.Twenty-year-old Austin Smith was arrested Sunday and charged with underage drinking...

COLUMBIA - A House lawmaker said Tuesday she will propose sending an ethics complaint to the attorney general accusing Gov. Nikki Haley of illegal lobbying.