In a tough financial year, the Aiken County Board of Education agreed Tuesday to a tentative operations budget with a modest tax increase of 5.8 mills that will actually be lower.
DENVER — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes...
By DAVID CRARY and NOMAAN MERCHANTAssociated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:28 p.m.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders – a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of...
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated Press
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MOORE, Okla. — A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America’s controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dismissing a veto threat from President Barack Obama, lawmakers in the House passed legislation that links student loan rates to the ups and downs of the financial markets in a vote largely along party lines.
It’s too bad the barbershop owner, who was killed over the weekend by those two punks, didn’t have a concealed weapon or a weapon anywhere near so he could have shot them, and saved us the trouble of feeding them for the rest of their lives,...
Ashley Bouchillon had never heard of a Blitz-Build residence, but was thrilled to learn how that process will put her in a Habitat home faster than she could imagine.
Fifteen high school seniors from the Aiken County and Richmond County area can thank a parent after receiving $3,000 college scholarships from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions.
PHOENIX — The jury in Jodi Arias’ murder trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a verdict against the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend in a case that captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies,...
COLUMBIA (AP) — A bank accused of losing $200 million of retirees’ money through bad investments has agreed to put $25 million back in South Carolina’s accounts and give the state discounts on future fees under a new, 10-year contract...
COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said he’s gotten calls from two conservative groups that feel they were wrongfully targeted by the Internal Revenue Service.
