Bond has been set for "Tiger King" star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle on charges he laundered more than half a million dollars. A federal judge in South Carolina on Monday set a $250,000 secured bond for Antle. Prosecutors said he would be released Tuesday and required to stay at his wildlife park ne…
A law restricting abortions in South Carolina after six weeks of pregnancy can take effect immediately in the state. The U.S. District Court in South Carolina on Monday lifted its prior hold on the enforcement of a state law passed last year that bans most abortions if an ultrasound detects …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina General Assembly is returning to Columbia on Tuesday to consider nearly $53 million in local projects that Gov. Henry McMaster wants out of the $13.8 billion state budget. All the money went toward items put in by lawmakers for local concerns, like $2…
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say scores of civilians are feared killed or injured after a Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post Monday that the number of victims w…
"This sort of denial characterizes so much of the political right's approach to problems, from racism, to gun violence, to climate change to the existential threat to our democracy," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
FLORENCE, S.C. — Two state legislators will start campaigning again for House District 101 as neither captured a majority in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary.
In this episode, Kelli Lemon and Michael Paul Williams talk with The New York Times Magazine and 1619 Project contributor Linda Villarosa about her new book "Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation." In the conversation and book, Villarosa shares troubling statistics t…
FLORENCE, S.C. — Two state legislators will start campaigning again for House District 101 as neither captured a majority in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary.
Incumbent Robert Williams snared 68.62% of the 2,199 ballots cast to win the Democratic Party's primary for State House of Representatives District 62.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary after voting to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. He is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to lose a reelection bid. Rice, a fiv…
In this episode, Kelli Lemon and Michael Paul Williams talk with The New York Times Magazine and 1619 Project contributor Linda Villarosa about her new book "Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation." In the conversation and book, Villarosa shares troubling statistics t…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is beefing up her campaign coffers in an effort to stave off GOP challenger Katie Arrington in the closing days of the campaign for South Carolina's 1st District. Mace has consistently topped the money contest in the 1st Congressional District. The …
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina lawmakers negotiating big gaps between the House and Senate versions of the state budget have received a big gift as the state's economy continued to do better than predicted. Economists meeting Tuesday predicted that South Carolina can now expect to …
Federal meteorologists say the Atlantic should expect another extra busy hurricane season this year. Tuesday's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic hurricane season forecast calls for 14 to 21 named storms, with six to 10 becoming hurricanes. The last six Atlantic hurri…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Republican governor has quietly signed into law a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls' or women's sports in public schools and colleges. Gov. Henry McMaster's signature Monday means South Carolina joins about a dozen other states…
Two houses collapsed into the ocean on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on Tuesday.
FLORENCE, S.C. -- The tone of the first official Republican Party debate of candidates running for South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District seat was set early.
ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A Crescent High senior has spent half his life donating to Anderson County’s PAWS animal shelter.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Investigators say they cracked a 2015 killing in Greenville County after determining one of the suspects was worried the victim was going to testify against him. Deputies say 30-year-old Brandon Rashard Barksdale is already serving time in the South Carolina prison sy…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's road agency says the cost to complete an Interstate 526 loop has tripled. The state Department of Transportation says the Mark Clark Extension going from West Ashley through Johns Island and to James Island will cost more than $2.3 billion. That's bec…
Governor Glenn Youngkin takes part in the fourth annual Virginia March for Life in Richmond, Va on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say the man who killed a police officer in South Carolina responding to a domestic violence call tracked the officer from upstairs in his home with a rifle before firing the fatal shot. Cayce Police Chief Chris Cowen says then as other officers tried to drag…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Five University of South Carolina trustees who some powerful lawmakers feel are responsible for interference in daily affairs won't be allowed to run for reelection next month. The legislative board that screens university trustees is refusing to send chairman C. Dorn S…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say they have have identified two more suspects in a Saturday shootout inside a crowded South Carolina mall in which nine people were shot. Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook on Monday announced the arrest of 20-year-old Marquise Love Robinson and said po…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina's capital on Saturday that left 14 people injured. Columbia Police Chief W.H. "Skip" Holbrook says 22-year-old Jewayne M. Price is in police custody and …