South Carolina congressional candidate Katie Arrington, just two weeks removed from her primary defeat of incumbent Mark Sanford, is recovering from serious injuries she received in a deadly car accident Friday night.
Read moreVolvo Cars, the first major automaker to abandon cars powered solely by internal combustion engines, is officially opening its first plant in the United States.
Read moreA man serving 18 years in prison in South Carolina for burglary was rightfully convicted in part because he left his cellphone at the crime scene and a detective guessed his passcode as 1-2-3-4 instead of getting a warrant, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSouth Carolinians awoke Wednesday morning to word that Mark Sanford, the former governor and a presence on the state’s political scene for nearly a quarter of a century, was defeated in his congressional primary by a candidate who made his lack of support for President Donald Trump the focus of her campaign.
Read moreAs South Carolina voters headed to the polls Tuesday to vote in a several primary races, most of the anticipation was focused on who would prevail in a crowded field of gubernatorial candidates and whether Rep. Mark Sanford would be booted from office for failing to support President Donald Trump.
Read moreA bill that would have banned nearly all abortions in South Carolina was narrowly struck down by the State Senate early Friday morning after Democrats filibustered for 13 hours during its final reading.
Read moreTwo weeks after a prison riot left seven people dead in South Carolina, 14 former prison employees appeared in court in shackles Wednesday to face federal corruption charges.
Read moreThe 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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