20 states sue over Biden admin school, work LGBT protections
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Attorneys general from 20 states sued President Joe Biden's administration Monday seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections...
ACLU seeks halt to South Carolina ban on school mask decrees
Disability rights groups and parents of children with disabilities want an immediate halt to a South Carolina law banning school districts from requiring face...
Bojangles closing eateries for 2 days; workers won’t be paid
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina-based Bojangles chain of restaurants announced Friday it will close all of its company-owned establishments on two upcoming days,...
The Citadel: ROTC detachments now required to get vaccine
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Some cadets at The Citadel will now be required to get vaccinated to guard against COVID-19.
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Virus surge breaks hospital records amid rising toll on kids
Kentucky and Texas joined a growing list of states that are seeing record numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a surge that is overwhelming...
Prosecutor in deaths of prominent legal family steps aside
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina prosecutor whose office was run for decades by a prominent legal family which had two members killed in...
Nashville Freedom Rider Ernest ‘Rip’ Patton dies at 81
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ernest “Rip” Patton, a member of the Nashville Freedom Riders and civil rights leader, has died, the Freedom Rides Museum announced....
ACLU sues over South Carolina ban on school mask mandates
The American Civil Liberties Union, representing disability rights groups and parents of children with disabilities, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over a South Carolina...
South Carolina conservationist Anne Springs Close dies
FORT MILL, S.C. — Anne Springs Close, who used her family's textile fortune to give back to the community through education and land preservation,...
At 60, Peace Corps plots return to world after virus hiatus
DEDZA, Malawi — More than a year after COVID-19 began sweeping the world, abruptly cutting short her Peace Corps stint, Cameron Beach is once...