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South Carolina's McMaster is now the longest serving governor at the job he loves

Jan. 29, 2025 20:53 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Wednesday was a big day for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. Yes, he gave his eighth State of the State address. And he became the Palmetto State's longest serving governor at 2,927 days, thanks in large part to his evolving political instincts over 40 years in politics...

Trump wants to cut taxes. So do governors and lawmakers in some states

Jan. 17, 2025 17:40 PM EST

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has proposed trillions of dollars of tax cuts for individuals and businesses. In some states, governors and lawmakers are seeking to cut millions more. The movement for more tax cuts comes after most states already have...

South Carolina man chooses to die by lethal injection instead of electric chair or firing squad

Jan. 17, 2025 16:54 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month. Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is the third inmate set to die since the state was able to...

Arkansas governor wants to revive state's Medicaid work requirements under Trump administration

Jan. 16, 2025 18:05 PM EST

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday she wants to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients, hoping to revive and expand a restriction that was blocked by the courts but could get a new life under the Trump administration. Sanders'...

$1.8 billion isn't missing after all in South Carolina but questions remain about accounting error

Jan. 15, 2025 19:51 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It turns out that $1.8 billion in South Carolina state funds weren't just sitting in a bank account waiting to be spent. Instead, it was an accounting error compounded over years instead of being reconciled, an independent forensic audit determined. The...

Lots of new faces and maybe a more conservative tilt as South Carolina Legislature starts session

Jan. 14, 2025 14:33 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More introductions than normal were needed Tuesday as the South Carolina General Assembly started its latest two-year session. Nearly one in five lawmakers in the legislature are new to their jobs. In the Senate, 13 of the 46 members were elected in November...

After holiday pause, South Carolina begins scheduling executions again

Jan. 03, 2025 14:33 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays. The state is working through a backlog of inmates out of appeals but temporarily spared because prison officials couldn't obtain...

Supreme Court to weigh state moves to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

Dec. 18, 2024 15:15 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider South Carolina's move to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the latest abortion-related case since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. The court agreed to take up the state's appeal of a lower-court...

Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82

Dec. 15, 2024 20:30 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — John Spratt, a former longtime Democratic congressman from South Carolina who successfully pushed for a balanced budget deal in the 1990s but was unseated decades later when his district turned Republican, has died. He was 82. Spratt died Saturday night at...

Federal officials say South Carolina mental illness group homes leave little hope of independence

Dec. 10, 2024 13:57 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people with serious mental illnesses are taken out of group homes and helped to get back into the community where they can work and lead independent lives. The...