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Sheriff's deputies arrested an Anderson County man after a motorcycle chase that ended Monday morning

This Independence Day, the red glare of fireworks won’t be brightening the sky over the site of a crucial Revolutionary War victory. There will be no fireworks to commemorate the Fourth of July at Cowpens National Battlefield this year.

When Connecticut gun maker PTR Industries was trying to find a new home, CEO Josh Fiorini got offers from about 40 different states. But South Carolina won out, thanks to the state's relentless efforts to woo the company.

Florida’s housing market continued its upswing in May, with higher closed sales, more pending sales, rising median prices, more new listings and a lower inventory of homes for sale, according to the latest housing data released by Florida REALTORS®. “Home sales continue to increase, it’s taking less time for sales to close, and median sales [...]

College students taking out new loans for the fall term will see interest rates twice what they were in the spring — unless Congress fulfills its pledge to restore lower rates when it returns after the July 4 holiday.

Seventy years ago, three local couples vowed to love each other "till death do them part."

South Carolina health officials on Monday asked the state Supreme Court to decide if the agency can suspend a program that regulates whether new medical facilities can be built, hospitals can expand and doctors can buy expensive equipment.

MOSCOW — Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Monday that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden will have to stop leaking U.S. secrets if he wants to get asylum in Russia, but he believes that Snowden has no intention of doing so.

Doorsteps, an online tool that provides first-time homebuyers a detailed, step-by-step guide to the homebuying process and agents a way to reach them, has launched a new tool that allows lenders to engage users through the platform. “We were finding that ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series on a new model for real estate brokerages, in which brokers would invest in their agents. Renwick Congdon will explore his vision at Real Estate Connect San Francisco, during a Thursday, ...

Comedian, actress and activist Rosie O’Donnell has put her Greenwich Village penthouse duplex on the market at an asking price of $10.95 million. That’s 35 percent more than what she paid when she bought it a year ago: $8.1 million. ...

SNELLVILLE, Ga. – A metro Atlanta woman is moving forward in her recovery from a battle with flesh-eating bacteria.

Starting this week, borrowers with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who are at least 90 days delinquent will start receiving offers from lenders to lower their mortgage payments, CNN Money reported. About 1.1 million borrowers are behind on their ...

A sudden windstorm turned an Arizona forest fire into an out-of-control inferno that trapped and killed 19 firefighters, nearly all of them members of an elite crew of "hotshots," authorities said Monday. It was the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.

SANFORD, Fla. — Jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial on Monday heard a recording of the neighborhood watch volunteer describing his fatal encounter with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to a police officer soon after it happened.

According to rankings compiled by Real Trends and The Wall Street Journal, Texas real estate broker Ben Caballero personally completed 2,267 deals in 2012, making him the nation’s busiest individual agent. The next agent ranked had 661 transactions. Which begs ...

Home prices have risen for 14 straight months and existing-home sales hit their highest level in more than three years in May, but many potential first-time homebuyers haven’t been able to join in the rebounding housing market. First-time homebuyers made ...

You’re about to go on a listing appointment for a multimillion-dollar property. What expectations will the sellers have and how will you meet them? Most luxury clients expect much more from their agent than just posting pretty pictures of their ...

For agents hoping to incorporate more technology into their real estate businesses, the wide-ranging advice can be overwhelming. Brokers, agents, vendors, coaches, and technology celebrities all have different ideas on how you should focus your efforts and the expectations that ...

There’s still a glut of unwanted homes in the Motor City, but vacation homes on Lake Michigan — popular with wealthy buyers from Detroit, Chicago, and even Texas and Florida — are once again in demand, “bumping up” to the ...