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The South Carolina Senate has approved its budget. The final vote came Wednesday after approving items like requiring school children use the bathrooms of their sex assigned at birth and whether universities can spend state money to move to another athletic conference.
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The South Carolina Senate has started debating a budget that accelerates a planned income tax cut instead of the House plan to use $500 million to give homeowners a one-time property tax rebate.
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Progress is being made in getting more women into leadership positions in South Carolina. The election of a sixth woman to the 46-member Senate in January pulled South Carolina up from last place in the U.S. in the percentage of women in its upper chamber.
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A report from the South Carolina Senate says state Treasurer Curtis Loftis nearly put the state’s entire financial system at risk of a cyberattack by saying he was going to post reams of account data online.
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Prosecutors: South Carolina prison supervisor took $219,000 in bribes; got 173 cellphones to inmatesFederal prosecutors say a supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates.
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An off-duty police officer in South Carolina has been charged with murder after state investigators say he shot a man trying to drive away after the two fought in a fast food restaurant parking lot.
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Twelve years after a hacker stole personal information from 3.6 million people through South Carolina tax returns, the state’s top police officer says he thinks he knows who did it.
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A South Carolina senator said the elected state treasurer has breached the public trust. The comment Tuesday by Republican state Sen. Larry Grooms came after lawmakers didn't get much clarity as they seek answers about how $1.8 billion ended up passing through a state bank account over the past decade without anyone knowing where it came from or was supposed to go.
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Republicans in the South Carolina House have given key approval to a bill expanding a program allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private and home-school education.
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South Carolina Gov, Henry McMaster has held a ceremony marking a new law allowing any adult who can legally own a gun to carry the weapon openly without a permit.