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.

South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control announced recently that it’s getting $3.3 million of federal stimulus money to clean up abandoned underground gasoline storage tanks that are leaking. The money should be able to clean up 66 sites around the state, mostly old gas stations. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

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