State lawmakers are preparing for a new legislative session, and one of their top priorities involves South Carolina’s private school voucher program.

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist.

A state panel has decided where a monument memorializing Civil War hero Robert Smalls will stand on the South Carolina State House grounds and what it will look like.

Both conservative and liberal politicians say higher education changes in red parts of America could be a road map for the ...