COLUMBIA, S.C. Members of a gay rights group say hundreds participated in an event at the University of South Carolina to observe National Coming Out Day. (More)

ALEXANDRIA, Va. A former Army contractor has pleaded guilty to theft after admitting he and others stole nearly $40 million in jet and diesel fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq. (More)

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Two men have been charged with robbery after the Charleston Southern University campus was locked down for several hours after an armed man was spotted. (More)

MARIETTA, Ga. A metro Atlanta county commissioner says reports that she may have hired a voodoo priestess to get even with a political rival - and bounced checks in the process - are "ridiculous." (More)

LAKE CITY, S.C. The father of South Carolina financier Darla Moore has died. (More)

GREENVILLE, S.C. Federal authorities say more than 58 people suspected of being illegal immigrants were busted in a massive raid on a Greenville chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford asked the leaders of state agencies Tuesday to suggest ways to shave spending from their budgets, saying that if lawmakers make the cuts for them it could be more painful. (More)

WASHINGTON Germany has returned over 20 pounds of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential misuse, the government said Tuesday. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. A federal report says a jet that crashed last month in South Carolina, killing four people and injuring two others, was on fire as it shot across a road at the end of a runway. (More)

GREENVILLE, S.C. Federal agents say they have raided a Greenville chicken processing plant and detained more than 300 people suspected of being illegal immigrants. (More)

ROCK HILL, S.C. Police say they found 42 cats and three dogs at an abandoned house in Rock Hill. (More)

GREENVILLE, S.C. Greenville County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man and charged him with killing his brother at a house in Taylors. (More)

CHARLESTON, S.C. MiShawna Moore says a state investigation of test scores at the inner-city Charleston school where she once served as principal is like a nightmare. (More)

ASHEVILLE, N.C. Some signs of the gas shortage haven't disappeared in North Carolina's mountains despite increased deliveries of fuel. (More)

PIEDMONT, S.C. Authorities say a 46-year-old homeless man accidentally drowned while fishing in a river in Anderson County. (More)

GASTONIA, N.C. A former Gaston County teacher who was unmarried and pregnant has settled her discrimination lawsuit against the county school system. (More)

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. The explosion of practice mortars sent Army Spc. Kade Williams into panic attacks, and nightmares plagued his sleep. The ravages of post-traumatic stress had left the veteran of the war in Afghanistan vulnerable, and he was desperate for help. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. The state agency that serves as a watchdog on utility cases says South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.'s request for a midyear rate increase should be cut in half. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. A man hit by a Highway Patrol car while he ran through a Columbia apartment complex has sued in federal court. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. will be testing the 106 sirens located within 10 miles of its nuclear power plant near Columbia. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. A board that projects the state's revenue is expected to cut its estimates. (More)

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. A Fort Bragg soldier repeatedly asked an 18-year-old colleague to kill his wife - also a soldier - and eventually offered $30,000 for the deed to be carried out, the teenager told authorities in police records released Monday. (More)

COLUMBIA, S.C. More than a dozen students and faculty at a private, Christian university crossed police tape Monday to meet with gay rights activists protesting the school's policy against openly gay students on campus. (More)

ROWESVILLE, S.C. Authorities say bond for an Orangeburg County man accused of killing a teenager while hunting in the woods was set at $250,000. (More)

SALT LAKE CITY The Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed on Monday a decision on whether to allow EnergySolutions Inc. to import the largest-ever amount of nuclear waste into the U.S., opening the window for Congress to block all foreign waste from entering the country before the decision is made. (More)