The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to address alleged anti-conservative bias in social media. While details are sketchy, there are huge First Amendment implications to the executive branch telling a private business what it must do regarding expressions of opinion — even…

Losing a family member is difficult. Inevitable, but difficult.

It’s often easy to be critical of government officials, certainly including those we elect. Today, however, we give Theo Lane a thumbs up.

It’s an illustration of how unreasonable congressional Republicans are on gun control that growing GOP support for a “red-flag” measure to prevent demonstrably dangerous people from getting firearms is being hailed as a bipartisan breakthrough. The proposal is the tiniest of gestures in the …

Abbeville County’s public school community — much of the Lakelands, really — remains in shock and disbelief following the death of school superintendent Betty Jo Hall this past week. Hall was killed in a head-on collision Thursday. The wreck claimed the life of 18-year-old Savion White, a hi…

Sharks made news this with two reported attacks on humans in the surf near Jacksonville. Neither resulted in severe injuries, thankfully.

President Donald Trump has signaled, if lightly, a willingness to consider measures to address mass shootings in America. Democrats should stop playing politics and engage him in a productive policy discussion.

Nothing could have prepared Abbeville County and the Lakelands education community for the news that hit Friday morning.

Aug. 1 marks the second anniversary of the decision to abandon construction on two nuclear reactors in Fairfield County after wasting $9 billion of SCANA and Santee Cooper electric customers’ money on the project.

A couple of weeks ago, in this space, we took another media outlet and one of its reporters to task for committing one of the most egregious acts in the journalism field: plagiarism. There’s enough media bashing going around these days, what with all the claims of “us” being “enemies of the …

Social media, as expected, has been stoked since the latest round of mass shootings.

Here we are again. Two more mass shootings in America — and those on the heels of the Garlic Festival shooting deaths. What more can be said that hasn’t been said?

Bernie Sanders has repeatedly touted his “Medicare for All” plan as better than what we have now. He says that, under his proposal, no American would be denied access to a doctor.

Watching the Democratic candidates’ debates and reading what some of the pundits have said, we find ourselves also hoping to see the 20-lane wide freeway of Democrats narrow down to two, maybe three. And soon.

The appearance by former special prosecutor Robert Mueller before two U.S. House committees ... broke little new ground. It gave Democrats the forum they wanted to claim the president committed crimes. It gave Republicans the opportunity to expand on their conspiracy theories. Of most import…

Here’s a thumbs up to what will most likely look like Christmas in August around these parts.

They’re scattered across the state: