Early Friday morning a student at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, SC was fatally shoot to death by the school's resource officer. From apparent reports the officer shot the student after he was attacked by the student.

Stop, or we'll say stop again! That pretty much sums up the new South Carolina police no-chase policy instituted by the mayor of the small South Carolina town of Wellford after a police officer hurt himself while chasing a suspect back in August.

For a second year in a row, hunting and gun advocates can purchase guns without paying any state sales tax during the South Carolina Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday. Always the two days after Thanksgiving, the 2009 gun sales tax holiday will be on November 27th and November 28th.

Residents of South Carolina were looking forward to saving some money during the state's sales tax holiday for appliances in 2009. Instead that will not happen as the South Carolina Energy Star sales tax holiday for appliances was eliminated.

What's behind all the uproar from certain circles about Barack Obama, health insurance reform and just about anything about you can think of? What's behind all the signs purporting to socialism and naziism (which are mutually exclusive, by the way; just think of how Hitler felt about the U.S.S.R.)? Jimmy Carter summed it up in one word: racism.

It appears that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has another round of questions to answers after a summer he would like to forget. This time Sanford is now being scrutinized for not reporting flights on personal planes as required by state law. An AP investigation has discovered some 35 flights since the Sanford took office back in 2003 that should have reported.

On Wednesday, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, 49, admitted his affair with an Argentine woman, noting not only that he traveled to Argentina rather than the Appalachian Trail hiking, as his aides thought. Since then, the woman's name has been revealed, Maria Belen Shapur, 43, and now alleged pictures of her have leaked to the web.

Yesterday South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, 49, held a press conference in which he admitted to, not just being in Argentina instead of the Appalachian Trail hiking, but that he was in Argentina ending an affair. The newspaper that first uncovered the evidence, The State, later released a series of emails between the two that showed how the deep the emotions ran.

Governor Mark Sanford, 49, of South Carolina, who had reportedly been hiking along the Appalachian Trail, was in fact making a mystery trip to Argentina, as revealed when Sanford told a reporter for The State newspaper he was actually in that country. Why? He was apparently terminating an affair.

If elected Nikki Haley will be the first woman of Indian origin running a US state. Nikki is running as a Republican candidate and if becoming the winner will replace the current South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

The first cases of swine flu to be confirmed in the southeastern U.S. have occurred in Georgia and South Carolina, according to reports.

AccuWeather.com reports a coastal storm formed on Monday night and is spreading a swath of slippery snow across the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia before it departs this evening.