LUXURY buyers raced into car dealerships last month to beat the tax rise, pushing sales up 23 per cent compared with the same month last year.

RESOURCES stocks lost more than $25 billion yesterday as falling coal prices and surging oil prices started a rush for the exits.

A WEAKER US dollar cannot be blamed for soaring oil prices as policymakers around the world tussle with the twin spectres of rising inflation and slowing growth, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said overnight.

In this addition of Slant Pattern, SC's Kevin Beane counts down his five favorite sports video games of all time, with two honorable mentions, and one dishonorable. Is it possible your favorite game didn't make the cut? Yes. Sorry.

High gas prices cost the state money, but pump a huge windfall into the treasury, too.

State Sen. Kim Brimer is suing to knock his Democratic challenger, Wendy Davis , off the ballot.

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