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Doby Gordon spent most of the day of Sept. 21, 1989, in Columbia at an orientation program for new principals.Like many residents of South Carolina’s interior counties, Gordon had little concern for a storm brewing off the coast.When Gordon returned to his Kershaw County home about 4 p.m., he found his wife, Suzanne, taping the windows.“I said, ‘What in the world are you doing? It’s going to hit Charleston, but it’s not coming this far inland,’” Gordon, then a 44-year-old, first-year principal at Bethune High School, recalled 20 years later. “I thought she was crazy.”Suzanne Gordon’s intuition was spot-on.

A 5-year-old Layton boy died Saturday evening after falling under the wheels of a trailer he rode on as part of a family hayride. About 45 people gathered in south Farmington to visit the Farmington Bay Bird Refuge, said Davis County sheriff's Sgt.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. | Jimmy Clausen must have felt as if he were still in paradise.Clausen, last seen playing flawlessly in a Hawaii Bowl win, completed 15 of 18 passes for 315 yards a...

Economists say it could take three years for the job market to bounce backWhen economic experts try to figure out when South Carolina’s economy will improve, they use terms such as gross domestic product, consumer confidence and manufacturing output.But the average guy on the street just wants to know two things:• When will I finally get another raise?• And when will my buddy who’s been laid off find another job?

Gov. Mark Sanford and his vacationing family were picked up by the state plane after getting off a cruise ship in Titusville, Fla., in 2003. The first family then flew to a governors meeting in Indianapolis, according to plane records and Sanford’s calendar, before returning to South Carolina.In 2006, the plane dropped the family off for a St. Simons Island vacation. There also were other flights to a NASCAR race and for hunting trips.Were those trips state business? Or were they personal, and possibly illegal?Those are the types of questions facing the State Ethics Commission’s nine members in its first-of-its-kind investigation of a sitting governor. Their decisions could clear up how state officials may use state planes and other resources, or lay the legal groundwork for Sanford’s impeachment.But the commission’s decision is also unlikely to answer other impeachment questions, including what meets the constitutional standard of a “serious misconduct or

Congaree National Park, one of the few spots in South Carolina where man has had little impact on nature, suffered a remarkably deadly punch from Hurricane Hugo. Gusts of 100 mph snapped huge trees or pulled their root balls out of the ground.The combination of storm damage and lack of previous extensive logging made the park’s old-growth forest an ideal place to study the impact of hurricanes on natural forests.Returning every few years to check on forest plots, University of Georgia research professor Rebecca Sharitz found some tree species were resilient or bounced back quickly. Others still are in the process of recovery, and at least one species of giants may never be the same.Here’s a quick summary of the findings from 20 years of study:• Trees in the wettest parts of the park, mainly bald cypress and water tupelo, were remarkably tough. Only about 10 percent of those trees were severely damaged. Bald cypress, with small leaves that offered little wind resis

Some of the Midlands’ largest employers have fared better than others during the recession. Here’s how some of the region’s biggest companies have dealt with the downturn and their plans for the near future.SCANAConsumers and businesses have cut back on power supplied by the Columbia energy giant.Profits at South Carolina’s only Fortune 500 company fell by $22 million in the first half of 2009.SCANA has frozen salary increases for the past 18 months, chief financial officer Jimmy Addison said.

West Valley City police are looking for a man who robbed a dollar store at gunpoint Saturday evening. A white man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walked in Honks, at 3938 West 3500 South, about 9 p.

South Bend, IN (Sports Network) - Jimmy Clausen was near flawless in leading No. 23 Notre Dame to a 35-0 rout of Nevada in the season opener for both programs, tossing three of his four touchdowns to ...

Indianapolis - More than 80 entries were part of this year's 'Miracle Mile Parade' on the south side of the city. People lined the streets along Madison Avenue Saturday to watch the parade, honori...