Year: 2013

Although a majority of South Carolina’s legislators have shown support for a statewide ban on texting while driving as a public safety issue, a Senate panel has decided that it will postpone acting on a proposed ban until at least…

Initial Level When the Social Security Administration receives an initial application, it is first reviewed to see whether the applicant has worked enough to qualify for Social Security Disability benefits or meets the requirements for Supplemental Security Income. If the…

Texting while driving is a dangerous activity. And people at the University of South Carolina experienced this reality firsthand, thanks to AT&T’s “No Text on Board, It Can Wait” campaign, ABC Columbia reported. AT&T invited students to go on a…

As high school students all along the Carolina Coast – from Myrtle Beach to Charleston – gear up for prom, it is a good time to talk to your kids about the consequences of drinking and driving. Teenagers might say prom…

  A bill to allow North Carolina motorcyclists over the age of 21 to ride without helmets has passed a committee of the state House. If this legislation becomes law, North Carolina will join South Carolina in relaxing laws on…

Perhaps, you’ve been wondering about the deep cough or chest pain that always greets you in the morning. Or maybe, you have trouble breathing when you break even the slightest sweat later in the day. What’s more confusing and troublesome,…

Since 1990, 36 children in South Carolina and North Carolina have died because they were backed over by motor vehicles. Nationwide, backover accidents kill more than 200 people and seriously injure more than 17,000 each year, according to a report by…

The South Carolina Highway Patrol wants high school students to know the dangers of texting while driving. That’s why it is teaming up with Subway for a second year to promote its W8 2 Txt program and spread awareness of this…