House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama's health care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats.
Partial vote results in Iraq's historic election released Thursday showed a tight contest between the nation's prime minister and a secular challenger during a chaotic count that was marred by accusations of fraud.
One person is dead and two others wounded following a shooting in the usually quiet bedroom community near a South Carolina coastal city.
Hundreds of firefighters from around the world are coming to South Carolina for a national competition.
Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69.
Cavaliers star LeBron James is tired of watching basketball and ready to start playing again.
Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road.
Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole are joining 250 veterans at the World War II memorial in Washington to honor their service.

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An Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office report released Wednesday tells of how an altercation between a deputy and a man started, but stops short of describing how 35-year-old Johnathan Myron Stokes ended up dead.
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Calhoun and Bamberg counties shattered records in the percentage of unemployed residents for the month of January, according to S.C. Employment Security Commission numbers released Wednesday.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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.
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