About two dozen towns across South Carolina are in trouble with the State Treasurer’s Office. They were supposed to turn in a record of the town spending for the year, but one mayor says the cost to do that outweighs the penalty for being late. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has more.

Congressional investigators say the government has been slow to upgrade security at U.S. laboratories that handle deadly germs nearly a year after the discovery of weak security controls at such facilities.

The president of a South Carolina technical college has been suspended after an audit. ‘The Times and Democrat’ of Orangeburg reported Tuesday that Denmark Technical College President Dr. John K. Waddell has been suspended without pay.

Police say a suburban Atlanta principal and his assistant principal have been arrested in connection with an investigation into whether student test scores were altered to improve school performance. Former Atherton Elementary principal James Berry was arrested at home Friday. Assistant principal Doretha Alexander turned herself in to police Thursday night and was later released on bond.

A new report faults the Savannah River Site for several safety issues. The Department of Energy did an audit of the site, last month, and found construction mistakes, and a potential 15,000 gallon radiation leak. What do residents who live in the area think about that? WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe finds out.

An audit of a nuclear weapons complex in South Carolina says the Savannah River Site did not meet several safety standards when constructing a new facility. The 31-page Department of Energy report released last month also found that one of the mistakes at the site near the South Carolina-Georgia border could have resulted in a spill of high-level radioactive waste.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines, one of nine regional carriers for Delta Air Lines, says it grounded 60 of its 112 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 jets after an internal audit raised safety concerns.

Federal investigators say a company managing South Carolina’s Savannah River Site nuclear complex altered its 2007 financial audit to justify expenses to the government.

The chairman of a South Carolina Senate panel that oversees the Employment Security Commission says he wants detailed information on how the agency that calculates unemployment is doing its job.

A government audit says the Treasury Department needs tougher controls to oversee the $700 billion financial bailout package.