Judge Blocks South Carolina Abortion Ban Day After Governor Signs Bill
A day after South Carolina banned nearly all abortions, a federal judge on Friday suspended the new law for 14 days.
Read moreA day after South Carolina banned nearly all abortions, a federal judge on Friday suspended the new law for 14 days.
Read moreSeeking to prohibit most abortions in the state, the South Carolina House on Wednesday passed a bill that bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Read moreA Fourth Circuit panel appeared unlikely Friday to rule in favor of a South Carolina student whose fourth-grade essay offering support for her transgender grandfather was denied publication by her school’s principal.
Read moreThe bill banning abortion after a heartbeat is found in a fetus effectively outlaws abortion in the state because a heartbeat can usually be detected at six weeks of pregnancy, before most women even know they are pregnant.
Read moreWith the South Africa variant now detected, the United States has seen infections caused by each of the three major virus strains researchers here are tracking.
Read moreProsecutors in South Carolina want rap star Kodak Black transported to state custody to face a longstanding sexual assault charge after his federal sentence for gun law violations was commuted by outgoing President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe executive who spent billions of dollars on two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a single watt of power is almost certain to spend time in prison.
Read moreA federal court in South Carolina granted the state’s request for a permanent injunction to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from demolishing the Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam if the proposal to do so does not “maintain the pool” in existence on the date of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act.
Read moreAfter spending much of the week leading the confirmation hearings of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Senate Judiciary chairman Lindsay Graham turned his attention to South Carolina and the bitter neck-and-neck race for his reelection.
Read moreSouth Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and President Donald Trump are both leading over their Democratic challengers in the Palmetto State, according to a poll released Thursday.
Read moreFamily members of the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting sufficiently alleged that the government was negligent in allowing shooter Dylann Roof to purchase the weapon he used during the shooting, a federal court in South Carolina ruled, denying the government’s motion to dismiss.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court Monday night reinstated a Republican-backed witness signature requirement for absentee ballots in South Carolina, rejecting Democrats’ complaints of voter suppression during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreWhile President Donald Trump clings to his slight lead over Joe Biden in South Carolina, a new Quinnipiac University poll on Wednesday shows incumbent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is neck-and-neck with his Democratic rival Jaime Harrison in the U.S. Senate race.
Read moreCalling himself a “great environmentalist,” President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would be expanding a ban on new offshore drilling off the coasts of certain Atlantic states in a reversal of his previous support for it.
Read moreA federal judge in South Carolina declined to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit accusing the city of Myrtle Beach of implementing discriminatory policies during a bikers’ festival primarily attended by African Americans that are not used during a bikers’ festival primarily attended by white bikers.
Read moreIsaias was forecast to become a hurricane Monday as it neared landfall in the Carolinas after bands of heavy rain from the tropical storm lashed Florida’s east coast.
Read moreThe elevator doors opened and inside were 10 people crammed into a space no bigger than a closet, none of them wearing a mask.
Read moreState Representative Nancy Mace won the Republican primary in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District Tuesday, and will face off in November against an incumbent Democrat who flipped the district two years ago.
Read moreThe stakes are high in Tuesday’s primary election in South Carolina, as a handful of Republicans vie for the chance to take back control of the 1st Congressional District seat that Democrat Joe Cunningham snagged from the GOP two years.
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