LAWRENCE, Kan. - Embattled Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins retired 12 months early Tuesday, following a year of controversy and embarrassment for both himself and the school.

A study will be launched this week to help identify the source of elevated bacteria levels in a lake in Columbia County's Woodbridge community.

EPA says leak could have been underground for weeks

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The Columbia County clinics are scheduled to move into a single facility next spring.

The Ruth Patrick Science Education Center at University of South Carolina Aiken will hold an event Sept. 18 to recognize Moon Night.

LEXINGTON, S.C. Holmes Conrad Dreher, a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and longtime member of the state's Workers' Compensation Commission, has died. He was 89.

It's not a real word, but that hasn't stopped "refudiate" from becoming Merriam-Webster's 2010 "Word of the Summer."

The government is giving the blues to two beverage makers for their claims about drinks flavored with green-tea.

Federal drug officials, drug companies, pharmacies, state authorities and local police departments all say they've noticed a jump in recent years.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that smoking rates are holding steady in the United States.

NEW YORK Tiger Woods was a no-brainer as a captains pick for the Ryder Cup.

Federal prosecutors say a former Army soldier told authorities he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton after he was arrested in a hostage standoff at a Georgia military hospital.

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Sheriff Ronnie Strength says the deputy responded to a call of a disturbance inside the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. One man is dead after a scuffle with the deputy.

Two very detailed photographs of the robber’s face were taken by the bank’s ATM machine just prior to the robber placing the mask over his face.

NEW YORK - Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captain's pick with his 71 tour victories and 14 majors. So is Rickie Fowler, who has never won anything at all.

Homeowners and farmers in northern South Carolina are complaining that caterpillars are chomping grass and other plants in lawns and fields.

Investigators at the Dubai crash site of a UPS cargo plane say they have found the flight data recorder.

Georgia's top court is considering the legality of the state's oft-challenged law that requires voters to show photo identification before they cast their ballots.