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Parents sue SC, hospital over child's sex surgery

A couple filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state of South Carolina for what they say was an unnecessary sexual assignment surgery performed on a toddler they later adopted. Lawyers for Pam and Mark Crawford said Tuesday they were suing the Department of Social Services for having irreversible surgery performed ...

Lawmakers support Medal of Honor museum in SC

Legislators are supporting plans to build a Medal of Honor museum in South Carolina. The House and Senate presented retired Marine Maj. Gen. James E. Livingston a copy of a resolution Tuesday supporting the museum planned for the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum on Charleston Harbor. The resolution says ...

Matt Kenseth makes his first pit stop during the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Saturday, May 11, 2013, in Darlington, S.C.  (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Kenseth passes Busch for 1st Darlington victory

Matt Kenseth is quickly showing how well he fits in at Joe Gibbs Racing. Kenseth passed JGR teammate Kyle Busch 13 laps from the end to win the Southern 500 on Saturday night, his third victory in his debut season after a successful stint with Roush Fenway Racing. JGR president ...

Dreary April kept tourists away from Myrtle Beach

Cool and wet weather combined to keep tourists away from the Grand Strand in April. The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports (http://bit.ly/10NBSxa) lodging occupancy and average daily rates were down from the same period a year ago. Tourism trackers were expecting a slight increase. Taylor Damonte of Coastal Carolina ...

Mothers in uniform get room on base to nurse young

Army civilian personnel specialist Tracey Leven recalls the time she tried to use a breast pump to express milk in a military office years ago. Instead of "breast pump in use," she was required to put a sign on the door reading, "occupied." That didn't stop two male soldiers from ...

ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY MAY 11 AND THEREAFTER - In a Monday, April 29, 2013 photo, Frank Phillips, 4, sits next to his brother Steven, 19, at home in Sumter, S.C. Frank said that he feels good after spending a few days in the hospital recently after brother Steven, 19, right, saved him from drowning in his family’s backyard pond on Hathaway Drive in Sumter. (AP Photo/The Item, Robert J. Baker)

Sumter teen's fast action saves his little brother

Steven Phillips has a lot on his plate for a 19-year-old young man. He's a committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has a part-time job and is planning to head off to Brazil in July for two years on his church mission. And in the ...

Kyle Busch holds the trophy in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide series auto race at Darlington Raceway, Friday, May 10, 2013, in Darlington, S.C.  (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Kyle Busch wins 5th Nationwide race this season

Kyle Busch figured it'd be easy to run his own program on the Nationwide Series after all the wins he'd racked up for Joe Gibbs Racing. A year on his own and out of Victory Lane, though, taught Busch a hard lesson. Back with JGR, Busch is back to his ...

FILE - In this March 7, 2013, file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. is questioned by reporters in an elevator as he leaves a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Paul says he’s only "considering" running for president. But he’s doing much more than mull it over. The Kentucky Republican is unabashedly clearing a path to seek the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, with a series of early-voting state visits, a beefed-up political operation and a deliberate plan to appeal to mainstream voters and raise his national profile over the coming months.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

2016 looms: Paul, Jindal visit early voting states

Republican Sen. Rand Paul opened his presidential exploration tour Friday with a splashy set of speaking engagements in Iowa designed to broaden his tea party brand into something more mainstream and, perhaps, viable. At the same time, another Republican, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, became the first potential 2016 presidential candidate ...

Column: Baseball must act now to protect pitchers

Bryce Florie wonders why any pitcher would resist wearing a little extra protection on his head. Maybe it would be different if they could look at the world through his eyes. Specifically, his right eye — the one that was struck by a line drive nearly 13 years ago. To ...

FILE - In this April 26, 2013, file photo, team owner Joe Gibbs, left, talks with driver Matt Kenseth during qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va. A NASCAR appeals panel sided with Joe Gibbs Racing on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, and eased some of the penalties imposed for having an illegal part in Matt Kenseth's race-winning engine at Kansas last month.  (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Matt Kenseth pleased with appeal outcome

Matt Kenseth was in Canada when J.D. Gibbs sent him the results of their appeal to NASCAR to reduce sweeping penalties against Joe Gibbs Racing. "J.D. kept texting me and the texts just kept getting longer and longer," Kenseth said Friday. "I'm like, 'Wait a minute. They did what? They ...

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