The Trump administration’s proposal to open large tracts of seabed off the South Carolina coast to oil and gas exploration has drawn a sharp rebuke from a statewide business advocacy group concerned about the thousands of unexploded bombs, poison gas and radioactive waste that were dumped in the planned exploration zone.
Read moreAn hourslong bloody prison riot left seven inmates dead and 17 others seriously injured Monday before authorities regained control at the maximum-security facility with a history of violence.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Thursday said environmentalists can continue to press claims that a ruptured gas line, since repaired, is an ongoing violation of the Clean Water Act because a plume from the spill continues to pollute navigable waters of the United States.
Read moreThe sister of the man sentenced to death for killing nine black parishioners in the basement of a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015 was arrested Wednesday on charges of carrying a weapon onto school property and marijuana possession.
Read moreAfter years without the drugs to do lethal injections, the South Carolina Senate has agreed to require condemned inmates go to the electric chair instead.
Read moreA magistrate judge on Wednesday dismissed DUI charges against a prominent state senator holding that his due process were violated during his arrest.
Read moreFederal investigators are scrutinizing a railroad switch that appears to have been locked in the wrong position as the cause of a train collision early Sunday in central South Carolina that left two people dead and up to 116 others injured.
Read moreSouth Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of House Oversight Committee, says he will not seek re-election.
Read moreA South Carolina school sued its former chief financial officer, insurance companies and others over what it claims was “a series of insidious schemes” through which the defendants defrauded the district and its taxpayers out of millions of dollars.
Read moreSouth Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson sued the federal government on Monday, claiming it is using the state as a dumping ground for nuclear waste despite promises to eventually take it somewhere else.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday sentenced a white former North Charleston, S.C. police officer to 20 years in prison for killing an unarmed black motorist during a 2015 traffic stop.
Read moreAttorneys for a white former North Charleston police officer who shot and killed a black motorist during a routine traffic stop in 2015 are expected to wrap up their defense Wednesday morning, believing they’ve successfully shown their client, Michael Slager, committed manslaughter, not murder, when he shot Walter Scott to death.
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A white former police officer who shot an unarmed black man to death after he fled a traffic stop never showed any racial animus toward people he encountered in the community, his attorney said in federal court on Monday.
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The chairman of the South Carolina Senate Ethics Committee who was arrested for driving under the influence and lying to police is now being sued by the 21-year-old woman he is accused of rear-ending on the interstate.
Read moreBreitbart News CEO and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon got a hero’s welcome in South Carolina Friday night stirring the crowd at the Citadel with a declaration that it’s “time for us to get angry again.”
Read moreKatie Preston couldn’t believe her eyes. Eleven months ago she’d been shocked into political activism by the election of Donald Trump as president. Now, on a Facebook timeline, she was being told that Steve Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News and chief architect of Trump’s victory was coming to her hometown for a Friday night speech at the Citadel.
Read moreThe chairman of the South Carolina Senate’s Ethics Committee was arrested over weekend on charges he was driving under the influence and lied to police after a minor car accident.
Read moreU.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has been reprimanded for violating a law limiting government employees’ political activity by voicing support for a South Carolina congressional candidate.
Read moreA class of South Carolina residents claims in court that SCANA, an energy holding company, violated a federal racketeering statute by charging customers for the cost of a multi-billion dollar nuclear project that won’t be completed.
Read moreIn a federal class action, two South Carolinians claim they were partially blinded by watching the Great American Eclipse through defective Solar Eclipse Glasses they bought from Amazon.com.
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