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Happy Thursday and welcome to May. There are four days left of the legislative session. A reminder: The House gavels in 10 a.m. and the Senate returns at 10:45 a.m. The two chambers will meet in a joint assembly at 11 a.m. to elect three members of the Public Service Commission, which oversees utility rates:

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis appears likely to stay in office for at least the rest of the year.

At an unassuming, blue cinder block building on a back street of North Charleston, a young woman opens a glass door that's etched with an image of an elephant.

Limestone University will hold its final graduation ceremony Saturday, closing the doors to the 180-year-old college in Gaffney.

On Tuesday, the university's Board of Trustees voted to close Limestone amid insurmountable financial pressures.

Vice President JD Vance is headed to the Lowcountry. Vance will tour the Nucor Steel plant in Berkeley County Thursday with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The White House said Vance and Zeldin will deliver remarks at the Huger plant, highlighting "America's manufacturing renaissance" during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Details are still forthcoming. It's Vance's first visit to South Carolina as vice president.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade was named as the top federal prosecutor for the state on Monday.