With viral cases declining and states and localities easing restrictions, businesses have added jobs for four straight months, the Labor Department said Friday. Still, the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% from 6% in March.
Gov. Henry McMaster is directing the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce to end the state’s participation in all federal, pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs, effective June 30, 2021.
Officials with the Mount Pleasant Police Department said the investigation started at 4:36 p.m. when officers responded to the 1700 block of Labor Camp Road to check the welfare of a resident.
The Charleston Police Department said two people were transported to the hospital following an accident involving a school bus in West Ashley Thursday afternoon.
LGBTQ advocates fought another bill focused on keeping transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports in South Carolina. The legislation went before lawmakers Thursday with more than a dozen people signed up to testify.
Some employees have left the restaurant industry for good amid the perils of the pandemic, which exposed workers to the coronavirus and uncooperative patrons.
With the end of the school year a little over a month away, students and families are reminded that it’s now a federal requirement for all virtual students to take state-mandated testing in person.
The South Carolina House has taken one of the final steps needed to make add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs.
