Category — Columbia, South Carolina

South Carolina’s unemployment rate increased to 12.6 % in January as the number of unemployed residents surpassed 273,000 — a state record, the state Employment Security Commission reported today.

The projects have supported or are supporting 7,736 jobs in South Carolina that would otherwise not exist, said ARTBA Vice President of Economics and Research Bill Buechner.

Local leaders say the arrival of German-based alternative energy company IMO Group could mean much more to the region than its initial promise of $47 million in capital investment and 190 jobs in Dorchester County.

The S.C. Hospital Association is a statewide, private, not-for-profit organization made up of 100 hospitals and 900 individual members. Dunlap replaces outgoing board chairman Ingo Angermeier, president and CEO of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System . Dunlap took over the position at the annual meeting in February.

A total of 509 homes sold in the region, up from 417 in February 2009. February’s median sales price, $179,900, changed little from last year’s $179,450 median price, the Realtors group said.

The fast success of 17 North Roadside Kitchen in Mount Pleasant has attracted the interest of investors who want to open similar restaurants in five Southeastern cities, co-owner Steve Palmer said.

Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area. Submissions should be sent to dailyjournal@scbiznews.com .

A Columbia mayoral candidate says he’s being shut out of a forum at the University of South Carolina’s Law School. Two other candidates are also being excluded from the forum because of a “media standard.”

Two Marine Corps jet pilots were rescued off the South Carolina coast after their aircraft went down.

People in Congressman Joe Wilson’s district may get or have gotten a flier in the mail that advertises what he’s done in Congress. However, if you look closely, you’ll see in the top left-hand corner it says, “This mailing was prepared, published and mailed at taxpayer expense.”

College basketball’s second season is about to begin. The University of South Carolina Gamecocks open play in the SEC tournament on Thursday and a lot if riding on their performance.

New details in an officer-involved shooting in Orangeburg are beginning to clear the air surrounding what happened that night.

South Carolina motorists would be fined  $25 if they’re caught sending or reading text messages while they drive under legislation that won approval in the House.

When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House.

WIS News 10 has obtained photographs that paint the picture inside Columbia’s Rust on a night that is the subject of a city investigation.

The search is on for whoever is stealing wreckers from two Midlands counties. The thief works quickly and quietly in the still of the night. Kershaw deputies say he took a tow truck from a company in Lugoff.

More than 80 school superintendents and school board members rallied at the State House Wednesday to protest the continued cuts in education.

South Carolina voters will decide on an amendment to the state constitution which would require secret union organizing votes.

State utility regulators have set three night hearings on a proposed rate increase for South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.

Tony Dungy will enter the South Carolina corrections system next week, but he doesn’t plan on staying — the Super Bowl champion coach and inspirational author will speak to inmates at the Department of Corrections headquarters March 16 in Columbia.

A well-connected public relations executive has been rejected as a candidate for South Carolina’s Transportation Commission for failing to fully disclose business relationships.

A Woodruff woman is charged with embezzling half a million dollars from her employer, an upstate bank.

Columbia city councilmembers voted unanimously to put embattled former councilman E.W. Cromartie’s seat up for election on April 6, but a request to the attorney general’s office may push that election back further. So far, two candidates have publicly declared to run for the seat.

An Easley woman is charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer, an Easley bank.

Almost everyone sells gift cards, and the latest seller to join the list is South Carolina’s state parks.

Two people in the Upstate are charged with counterfeiting, and officials say one of them also faces drug and gun charges.

South Carolina is not for sale. That’s according to a conservative think tank which says the Sembler Project is bad for the state.

Two soldiers from South Carolina and Georgia have been killed in a vehicle rollover in Iraq.

The South Carolina Army National Guard has chosen a soldier from North Charleston and another from Columbia to represent the state in soldier of the year competitions.

A small South Carolina town that was the first taste of the Marine Corps for hundreds of thousands of recruits is acquiring the train depot where they arrived for a half century.