Charleston

DALLAS - Federal investigators say metal fatigue caused a hole to rip open in the roof of a Southwest Airlines jet as it cruised at 35,000 feet last year.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Officials estimate tourism means about $3 billion a year to the southern end of the South Carolina coast.

Battleship Missouri open for visitors again in Pearl Harbor PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) - The battleship where officials from Japan and the Allied Forces signed surrender documents ending World War II is reopening after three months of maintenance and repairs.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Spoleto Festival USA plans to celebrate the reopening of a nearly 300-year old South Carolina theater with a production that was the first opera ever performed in the American colonies.