South Carolina

It was the second fatal attack in the state of South Carolina in 2022 and at least the fourth one in the U.S. this year.

Authorities say a beachgoer was killed after a loose beach umbrella impaled her in the chest.

Authorities have been tight-lipped about how police linked Alex Murdaugh to the deaths of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul

Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced former attorney who was heir to a powerful legal dynasty in South Carolina, was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of his wife and younger son, who were fatally shot outside their home more than a year ago.

A grand jury is expected to indict embattled South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh on murder charges in last year’s slayings of his wife and son, sources told NBC News on Tuesday, the latest twist in the sprawling scandal engulfing a local legal dynasty.

Stokes said he is still trying to process his stand-in’s death, who moved from New York to Charleston to work on filming for season 3 of the show.

South Carolina, Maine, Nevada and North Dakota also held midterm primary elections on Tuesday

An 8-year-old boy from New Hampshire was tragically killed in what appears to have been a random shooting while vacationing in South Carolina over the weekend, according to police. Charles Montgomery Allen, 40, was shooting at cars from his home on Old River Road in Florence, South Carolina, around 2 p.m. on Saturday when he struck the child and his…

Many cities claim to have celebrated Memorial Day first, but the true earliest version of the commemoration — organized by Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina — was nearly erased from history.

The first Memorial Day, organized by Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina, was nearly erased from history. In 1865, a group of Black Charlestonians exhumed a mass, unmarked grave filled with the bodies of Union soldiers, and then gave them proper burials. LX News storyteller Jalyn Henderson speaks with David Blight, a historian who uncovered the Memorial Day history —...

A deputy in South Carolina whose police van was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women seeking mental health treatment trapped in a cage in the back was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison. A Marion County jury found former Horry County deputy Stephen Flood guilty of two counts of involuntary manslaughter and…

The body of a 17-year-old girl from New York who disappeared while visiting South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach on spring break 13 years ago has been found and a sex offender has been charged with murder, kidnapping and rape, authorities said Monday. Brittanee Drexel was last seen April 2009 when she was walking between hotels in Myrtle Beach. Her boyfriend, who…

Ariel Robinson, former contestant and winner of “Worst Cooks in America,” was found guilty of homicide by child abuse in the death of her 3-year-old foster daughter, Victoria “Tori” Smith

Investigators say a 60-year-old man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their South Carolina backyard.

Russell Laffitte, who headed Palmetto State Bank until he was fired earlier this year, now faces 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy and computer crimes, state police announced Wednesday.

A loose pony caused a seven-car crash on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County, SC, on Saturday.

Jewayne Price will be allowed to travel from his home to work while on house arrest.

Police in South Carolina, say a judge set a $25,000 bond for a man arrested after a weekend shooting that left 14 people hurt at a busy shopping mall.

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

The Columbia Police Department confirmed twelve injuries from a shooting that had occurred in a South Carolina shopping mall on Saturday.