Several, if not tens of thousands, of Wells Fargo customers received portions of other customers’ bank statements in the mail Wednesday, potentially a massive security breach for the San Francisco-based bank.A spokesman at the bank’s headquarters reached Thursday morning had not heard of the problem. A Charlotte-based spokesman quoted in an ABC News 4 report on the issue said in an email...

The Carolina Bays Parkway bypassing Myrtle Beach is not expected to be completed until 2015.The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports( http://bit.ly/pBJLPv) the parkway, state Highway 31, parallels U.S. 17 through Horry County along the state's north coast.The southern end of the road has never been completed and work on that section is now not expected to start until next summer.The work was delayed ...

Bank of America will start charging debit-card users $5 a month to pay for purchases. The move comes as the cards increasingly replace cash and as banks look for ways to offset the loss of revenue from a new rule that will limit how much they can collect from merchants.Paying to use a debit card was unheard of before this year and is still a novel concept for many consumers. But several banks have...

One path to peace is in the message and who delivers it. That idea sank in for 1st Lt. Carter Langston, a Rock Hill native stationed in Afghanistan, when he learned that an American pastor and about 30 spectators had burned a Quran in Florida.In a country where anti-American sentiment already runs high, a few angry leaders in Afghanistan urged people to avenge the insult. The result was the deaths...

S.C. workers are making more money, but their bosses are making less -- a sign that the state’s slow recovery from the Great Recession could be slipping.Individual income tax collections last budget year were $116 million more than expected, meaning S.C. workers were taking home more taxable income. But corporate income taxes brought in $16 million less than anticipated -- a sign, state eco...

As Bank of America Corp.’s stock has tumbled and clawed back in recent days, city leaders, business owners and others with a stake in the company are waiting to see what happens next.The stock market swings have delivered a familiar feeling of anxiety to a city pummeled by the financial crisis. Local leaders and business owners say they aren’t as fearful this time. But they acknowled...

WASHINGTON — After a spate of bad economic news and a 10-day pounding of stock prices, Friday’s jobs report is likely to play an outsized role in either calming the waters or deepening fears that the U.S. economy is sliding back toward recession. Stocks plummeted Thursday as investors fretted about weakening economic conditions and emergency steps announced by the European Central Bank...

The Royal Bank of Canada will become the new sponsor of the Heritage golf tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links, according to several websites, including golfcanada.ca. A news conference has been scheduled for this afternoon. PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and Gov. Nikki Haley are scheduled to attend.According to golfcanada.ca, RBC will be the sponsor for the next five years. RBC also sponsors ...

The bin Laden rally lasted all of three hours. Stocks began climbing Monday morning after news of the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist. Strong earnings reports from Humana Inc. and other companies also pushed them higher. But by lunchtime, the gains were gone. The major indexes wavered throughout the remainder of the day and closed slightly lower. “As great as the news is,...

Suicides among active-duty soldiers dropped in 2010 for the first time in five years, but the number of Army reservists and National Guard members who killed themselves nearly doubled, leaving Army officials scrambling to find ways to gain control of a suicide crisis that's defying the Pentagon's investment in prevention programs. "It's not a deployment problem, because over 50 percent of the ...

A man known as the "Limping Bandit" because of the way he walked away from a string of 23 bank robberies has been sentenced in Charleston to 25 years in federal prison.The U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina said in a news release that 52-year-old Cecil Stephen Haire of Douglas, Ga., was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty earlier this year to robberies in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and So...

Harry Pavilack - the Myrtle Beach lawyer perhaps best-known for his television commercials and billboards urging potential clients to "Call Pavilack Today!" - is $72.5 million in debt and is facing allegations in bankruptcy court that he could be hoarding cash and hiding assets from creditors, court records show.The allegations were raised in a report last week by George DuRant, a court-appointed ...

Experienced hunter Maryellen Mara-Christian of Massachusetts says she was excited to get her first alligator on a hunt this week in South Carolina.Hooking and killing the 1,025 pound, 13 1/2-foot gator has made her something of a celebrity."He was just a big old gator," she said Friday by phone from a hotel in Washington, D.C., where she will be interviewed on a morning news show Saturday. "The hu...

A South Carolina woman who was accused of taking more than $500,000 from the bank where she worked has been sentenced to two years in prison.The Greenville News reported Wednesday that federal court records show 45-year-old Kimberly O. McAbee also was ordered to pay restitution.McAbee pleaded guilty in April to taking $520,000 from Arthur State Bank in Woodruff.Her attorney, Rick Vieth (Veeth), sa...

A West Columbia man died in a single-vehicle wreck in the Red Bank area, authorities said.Richard Thorne, 28, was killed after his sports utility vehicle hit a power pole guideline and tree after going off the road, Lexington County coroner Harry Harman said.The accident occurred in the 1900 block of Old Barnwell Road just before 11 p.m. Sunday, State Highway patrol troopers said.A 23-year-old pas...