Deputies accepted a newborn child surrendered under the state’s Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies Act, the South Carolina Department of Social Services said.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading a coalition of other attorneys general opposing an effort to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.
Gov. Henry McMaster issued an executive order Monday instructing the state’s Department of Social Services to prevent the federal government from placing undocumented, unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border into foster care and group homes.
The owner of a Ravenel butcher and taxidermy shop says his team found five dog tags, a shell casing, turtle shells and even a spark plug inside the stomach of a 12-foot alligator killed by a Lowcountry hunter.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it is working to set up a toll-free number to help families who’ve lost loved ones to COVID-19 apply for funeral assistance.
Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades and they’re starting with stricter background checks.
Authorities said a man was injured during an exchange of gunfire with police officers at a West Ashley apartment complex after intimidating his neighbors with a semi-automatic rifle Wednesday morning.
The Charleston Animal Society is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two people accused of taking a dog and her four puppies from a Johns Island home.
South Carolina is set to receive 41,000 doses of the newly-approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine in its first shipment, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control said Monday.
A South Carolina Republican lawmaker says he is filing a bill that would allow former President Donald Trump to buried on the grounds of the state Capitol if Trump is banned from being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Gov. Henry McMaster is taking on officials with President Joe Biden’s administration who he says are making incorrect claims about the possibility of safely bringing students back to the classroom.
Musician and Lowcountry native Darius Rucker quietly treated everyone dining at a restaurant he frequents to a free meal and also left a big tip for servers Sunday morning.
Law enforcement officers across the state joined family, friends and colleagues of a fallen Colleton County detective at his memorial service Saturday afternoon.
