...Voting Rights Act of 1965 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race and color.Michael Passman, a spokesman for the department, said in an email the agency would not comment on why those two counties were chosen for monitors.

...under an agreement reached last fall between the state and the U.S. Department of Justice.Tom Wilson, spokesman for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, says that while most patients should be out of the Rome...

COLUMBIA - Several Occupy Columbia protesters arrested last week for refusing to leave the Statehouse grounds sued South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and state public safety officials Wednesday, saying their First Amendment rights were trampled when they were arrested for demonstrating on public property.

...pontoon boat and other boats being used by technicians to gather samples for analysis, said Adam Myrick, a spokesman for the department.The tests are designed to determine the extent of contaminants deposited on the bottom of the lake from industries...

...completed application to operate a North Augusta splash pad that's been finished since April.Thom Berry, the spokesman for the Department of Health and Environmental Control, said health officials will inspect the splash pad at Summerfield Park...

Legislators will take up budget vetoes today that will decide whether there is money for immunization programs, school bus fuel and to avoid shuttering an agency that runs much of the state's bureaucracy.

...over to Effingham County Superior Court, Bohannon said.Brown had been employed by the sheriff's office in Chatham County since October and was still on probation as a new hire, said Lt. Shawn Taber, spokesman for the department.

...supervising roughly 44,000 people, with several counties down to a single agent, said Peter O'Boyle, a spokesman for the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

...round of budget cuts. Those left would be supervising an average of 117 people each, said Peter O'Boyle, spokesman for the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.The state's agents currently supervise an average of 94 people...

...looking into whether criminal negligence, or perhaps something more sinister, could have been involved, said a spokesman for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Officials at the club playing host to the U.S. Open tournament and...