...general's demand to place the school and its finances under the control of a receiver.Mark Powell, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said the two sides came to an agreement Tuesday morning before a hearing that had been scheduled...

The attorney general's office told the newspaper it can't release additional details because the case of the former Abbeville County sheriff was heard by the state grand jury and South Carolina law requires matters that go before a grand jury be kept secret.

Jerry Sandusky is distraught over the NCAA penalties issued to Penn State's football program for the school's handling of his child sexual abuse scandal and maintains his innocence as he awaits sentencing, his defense lawyer said Wednesday.

Democrats called Thursday for the immediate resignation of Lt. Gov. Ken Ard as his ethics case heads to a state grand jury, calling on Republicans to stop working on backroom deals to replace him.

COLUMBIA - The last complaint against the interim director of the public safety agency was made more than a decade before the attorney general's office started reviewing new allegations.

...face "a Gordian knot of conscious and even subconscious conflicts and difficulties," Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for the attorney general's office, said Wednesday.Frederiksen said the court's deadline to ask that the trial be held outside...

State police on Friday released images of the person who left a note threatening attorney general Henry McMaster in a bank drop box.

AIKEN --- Once he has entered a chat room, it takes only minutes for someone to make contact, thinking he's a 12-year-old child.

...conviction in the killing of a Savannah police officer, a state official said Wednesday. Russ Willard, spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, said a three-judge 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel will hear arguments on whether...

...beyond the control of these people. ... But we know there are people who will gouge." Mark Plowden, spokesman for the attorney general, said most gas stations that have been contacted have voluntarily provided the information sought. But...