The Palmetto State’s Republican governor signed off on legislation to resume executions despite a lack of lethal injection drugs by forcing death row inmates to choose between electrocution and a newly developed firing squad.
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A federal court in South Carolina denied the Bishop of Charleston and South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities’ request for a preliminary injunction to strike the “no-aid” provision of the state’s Constitution, which prevents public funds from being used to directly benefit religious or private schools.
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Conservation groups applauded a judge’s decision to block a pharmaceutical company from harvesting horseshoe crab blood in South Carolina for use in vaccine development.
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A federal court in South Carolina upheld the 20-year prison sentence of former police officer Michael Slager, who pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for shooting Walter Scott, a Black man, after a traffic stop for a broken brake light. Slager shot Scott, who was unarmed and running away from the officer, five times in the back, killing him.
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Police say the former pro defensive back shot and killed a prominent doctor, his wife and two of their grandchildren along with an air conditioning technician before turning the gun on himself. The motive is unclear.
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The Palmetto State’s new Republican-backed law that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy has been blocked indefinitely through a preliminary injunction.
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The appeals court focused on the parameters for subordinate officers to report wrongdoing, and how reporting isn’t always protected speech.
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The arthropod’s milky-blue blood contains a substance that can detect dangerous endotoxins in drugs and vaccines, which has played a key role in recent coronavirus vaccine development.
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A day after South Carolina banned nearly all abortions, a federal judge on Friday suspended the new law for 14 days.
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Seeking 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.
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A 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.
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The 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.
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With 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.
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Prosecutors 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.
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The 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.
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After 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.
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South 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.
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The 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.
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