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After two weeks of debating the state’s $6.7 billion general fund budget, things started to get silly Wednesday in the state Senate.
The income of Gov. Nikki Haley and first gentleman Michael Haley rose sharply in 2011 — because of nearly $200,000 in book royalties paid to the Republican governor for her memoir — and so did the couple's tax bill.
South Carolina state Rep. Ted Vick officially dropped out of the running Friday for the newly-created 7th Congressional District seat following his arrest for weapons and drunk driving charges.