Because of his severe dyslexia, Harrison Pineds doesn’t enjoy writing, but he recently wrote a 12-chapter story about Lewis, the newborn giraffe at Riverbanks Zoo.

Biologists are monitoring red algae that has popped up around the Lowcountry, including Beaufort County, and will check its possible spread to other parts of the South Carolina Coast. Fishermen traveling the coast have heard that shrimping nets have been tangled in and destroyed by the invasive plant.

Nineteen high school students from across South Carolina and one from Martinez, Georgia are spending the week at the University of South Carolina to learn about and get hands-on experience in the new field of bionanotechnology. It combines biology with nanotechnology, which is engineering things at a microscopic level.

A retired USC history professor who’s volunteering his time to go through boxes of Confederate-era money at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History made a surprising discovery Tuesday morning. He found five $100 bills that are so rare no one knew they existed.

The vehicles were lined up at the drive-through, circling twice around most McDonald’s restaurants.  What had everyone lined up for hours?

As alligator mating season blooms, an ever increasing number of the reptiles is ending up on front porches, in swimming pools and in backyards of Beaufort county homes.

Forty-six states and the District of Columbia have agreed to work together to develop a common set of academic standards in math and reading. The goal is to better prepare students for college or the working world by making sure they’re learning what they need to in order to compete with students from other countries.

Large raw sewage spill still causing problems.  Restriction area has now been reduced.

The fate of $700 million in disputed federal stimulus money is now in the hands of theSouth Carolina Supreme Court. The state’s highest court heard arguments Wednesday in two lawsuits over the money, both filed in an effort to force Governor Mark Sanford to request the money.

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - Part of a South Carolina waterway has been closed to swimmers after thousands of gallons of raw sewage leaked into it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has heard arguments in two lawsuits seeking to force Gov. Mark Sanford to accept $700 million in federal stimulus cash.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A new federal report shows South Carolina’s economy grew last year, despite the recession.

A new study by the University of South Carolina found that African-Americans in South Carolina are dying of cancer at higher rates than the rest of the nation and their white neighbors.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is questioning whether his own state Supreme Court’s justices can be fair as the high court readies for a hearing Wednesday on his efforts to block federal stimulus money for schools.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gas prices may be rising across the nation, but South Carolina motorists can say they’re paying less than anyone else.