A legislative panel has advanced a bill allowing mixed martial arts contests in South Carolina.

South Carolina legislators have advanced a bill that ensures a fetus who survives an abortion attempt is not treated as medical waste. A Senate panel approved the bill Wednesday, sending it to the full Judiciary Committee.

A plan to raise South Carolina’s cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack could hit a snag after the Senate’s top Democrat said it doesn’t expand current Medicaid programs.

South Carolina legislators may have found another way to get under Gov. Mark Sanford’s skin.

The SC Supreme Court won’t hear stimulus lawsuit

A South Carolina legislator who cited a report saying 12 of his colleagues failed to submit tax returns between 1999 and 2007 has filed three bills saying such offenders should be barred from holding public office.

South Carolina officials have set a May 8 execution date for a man convicted of killing an Orangeburg police officer 16 years ago. Prison officials say 34-year-old Thomas Ivey can choose electrocution or lethal injection.

The S.C. Department of Corrections today named Sylvia Randolph its 2008 Correctional Officer of the Year.

A South Carolina bill that would bar people from identifying members of a state execution team has advanced.

South Carolina state senators have approved legislation that toughens penalties against students who assault teachers or other school employees.

Votes taken in the South Carolina House will now be recorded the way legislators actually vote.

Gov. Mark Sanford says one benefit to the current economic crisis is it will force lawmakers to adopt spending limits.

A spokesman for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says a request for federal aid to pay benefits to out-of-work residents will be signed as soon as unemployment officials agree to certain conditions.

The U.S. Census Bureau says it will hire 2,000 people in South Carolina, after opening offices in Charleston and Columbia.  Read their entire statement.

Eight of the Senate’s nine new members are getting acquainted with how they’ll do their legislative jobs in January. Senate Clerk Jeff Gossett on Thursday briefed the freshmen on parking, ethics, choosing committees and the rules that control how legislation is handled.