President Barack Obama has issued a statement on the passing of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

A former South Carolina election official has apologized for his Internet posting that compared a gorilla to an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama. Former state Election Commission Chairman Rusty DePass read a statement during an NAACP news conference in Columbia Wednesday saying his comments were offensive and foolish. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

The state NAACP is demanding an apology from a former South Carolina official whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.

The First Family celebrated Easter by attending service in Washington. Dressed to the nines, the Obamas made their way to Saint John’s Episcopal Church. They will also get their new “First Dog”, a Portuguese Water Dog, on Tuesday. They plan to name the dog “Bo”.

The lavender dress a South Carolina teen wore to Washington as she helped President Obama bring national attention to the plight of the state’s rundown rural schools is heading to the State Museum.

When 14-year-old Ty’sheoma Bethea went to her local library to write a letter to Congress about the conditions at her school, she never dreamed what the result would be. But the 8th grader at J.V. Martin Junior High in Dillon got to sit next to First Lady Michelle Obama in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday night as President Barack Obama talked about Ty’sheoma and the needs of her school. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

“At Last” may be just what President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are thinking as they glide together to the Etta James classic at one inaugural ball after another.

Barack Obama is taking part in a national prayer service - a tradition that dates to the inauguration of George Washington.

The incoming residents of the White House are sitting down for coffee with the couple who’ve lived there for the past eight years. Barack and Michelle Obama are there for a pre-inauguration coffee with President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. They’re joined by Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill.