Updated: May. 7, 2022 at 2:46 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Ray Rivera and Jordan Gartner
Police in South Carolina are investigating an assault that involved an elementary school student and an assistant principal.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 4:40 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Ray Rivera and Emily Van de Riet
An elementary school assistant principal in South Carolina was sent to the hospital after she was assaulted by an 11-year-old student, police said.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 4:13 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office say the body of a missing 5-year-old girl has been found in a river Tuesday night.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 11:56 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Investigators say a Lowcountry man who was out on bond for kidnapping two sisters and sexually assaulting one of them was arrested again for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl in Arizona.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 3:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
A Lowcountry man who went into a pond in Beaufort County to save a woman from a 10-foot alligator has received a national award for heroism.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2022 at 12:37 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Jana Daley said the incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on Highway 52 in Moncks Corner and the rescuer was one of her drivers, who she identified as Damien Rose.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2022 at 6:06 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
South Carolina authorities have arrested an Upstate man after they say his grandson found a gun at his home then brought it to an elementary school to “shoot zombies.”
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 11:50 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office arrested Vernessa Denise Williams who faces a charge of neglect of a child.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 11:45 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Troopers say 17-year-old Caleb Kennedy was driving a 2011 Ford pickup when it went onto a private drive and struck a building.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 11:35 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Clyburn said he is fully vaccinated and received his booster in September.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 4:21 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The man says he was convicted for the charge in 2001, two years before the Supreme Court ruled that laws that criminalized homosexual sex violated due process and are invalid under the 14th amendment.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2021 at 10:18 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced on Thursday that the South Carolina State Grand Jury has issued seven indictments consisting of 21 new charges against Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2021 at 11:56 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Chevy Chase showed up at one of the Charleston Raising Cane’s location to grab some chicken as well as surprise some unsuspecting customers at the drive-thru line.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The state law that keeps South Carolina school districts from implementing mask mandates in their schools was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 11:42 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the United States Geological Survey have upgraded a quake in the Lowcountry to a 3.3 magnitude earthquake in the Charleston County area.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Patrick Phillips
Bond was set at $20,000 for Alex Murdaugh on charges in connection with a Sept. 4 shooting investigators say was an insurance fraud scheme.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 6:23 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Rob Way and Ray Rivera
Officials with the Charleston County School District say students who do not wear a mask cannot attend in-person classes.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 11:43 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said they are investigating the death of Alex Murdaugh’s housekeeper identified as Gloria Satterfield.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 11:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
A lawyer for Alex Murdaugh says his client will surrender to authorities on an arrest warrant for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 7:05 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera and Gray News staff
State authorities said the man arrested in connection with Alex Murdaugh’s shooting planned it with Murdaugh so that the attorney’s surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 11:50 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Ray Rivera
In an insurance fraud warrant, SLED says Murdaugh gave 61-year-old Colleton County man Curtis Smith a weapon and told Smith to shoot him.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:38 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities released a report involving Barbara Crosby regarding an incident that happened at the DD2 Adult Learning Center.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:06 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the Charleston Police Department say a loaded gun was found on a 56-year-old woman who went to the SC Aquarium and attacked a police detective after she refused to wear a mask.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
According to MUSC, they have had to board ICU patients in other departments including the emergency department and the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
State health officials on Friday reported a total of 6,697 new cases of COVID-19 which is the third-highest total in a single day since the start of the pandemic
Updated: Aug. 22, 2021 at 11:49 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The organization said Clair Baisley, Carla White, and Beth Collins died from COVID this past week.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 6:04 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
State health officials are recommending that all South Carolinians, including those who are fully vaccinated, wear masks when indoors and in public settings.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2021 at 8:58 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Police say a man accused of shooting a Florida police officer in the head has been captured on a wooded property just outside of Atlanta.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 11:41 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Charleston County deputies have arrested five people who they say conspired to steal dogs at a Johns Island home with two of the suspects impersonating police officers.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2021 at 3:28 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
A vehicle registration violation in Berkeley County led to the arrest of a wanted man and the discovery of a baby alligator in a book bag.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2021 at 11:40 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Investigators with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division arrested a former police officer with the Moncks Corner Police Department who is accused of having sex with a student at Berkeley High School while working as a school resource officer.
Updated: May. 24, 2021 at 9:37 PM EDT
|By Live 5 Web Staff and Ray Rivera
The family of a 14-year-old girl who died in a mass shooting over the weekend in North Charleston is speaking out about their call for justice in her killing.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2021 at 9:00 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Lawyers representing Rashad Robinson also named Police Chief Luther Reynolds and former police officer Kevin Schlieben, who was originally charged in the 2019 incident, in the lawsuit.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2021 at 8:35 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
An assault suspect who police say was punched in the face by a bystander at a bowling alley in West Ashley has been temporarily suspended from practicing law in South Carolina.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2021 at 12:32 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities say a man who was attacking his girlfriend at a bowling alley was punched in the face and knocked down by a woman at a bowling alley in West Ashley.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 10:23 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera and Patrick Phillips
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.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2021 at 10:06 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Police in Summerville have confirmed an 82-year-old Summerville woman who was reported missing Thursday night has been found.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 at 8:45 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office posted video of Deputy Dexter Ladson receiving a police escort to his home on Friday afternoon.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2021 at 8:27 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
What do you do when your COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru line is backed up? You seek out the professionals.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2020 at 7:30 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
Authorities say Tyell Grant’s attack partially severed his mother’s arms and caused severe nerve damage, while the attack caused one of his father’s arms to be partially amputated.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2020 at 11:55 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera
The investigation began at 1:33 p.m. when police officers responded to Tanger Outlet Boulevard for a shooting. When officers arrived they found evidence that a shooting had occurred in the parking lot.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2020 at 4:31 PM EST
|By Ray Rivera and Live 5 Web Staff
A Lowcountry middle school teacher accused of soliciting a minor and criminal sexual conduct has been sentenced to 5 years of probation.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2020 at 8:20 AM EST
|By Ray Rivera, Patrick Phillips, Harve Jacobs and Lillian Donahue
Republican Nancy Mace has won the U.S. House 1st Congressional District race beating incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 11:22 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Gov. Henry McMaster was one of several people targeted by a group suspected of planning to kidnap the Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to The Detroit News.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 7:53 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The program would provide scholarships or one-time grants to help families subsidize tuition for the state’s participating private, parochial or independent schools in the state.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2020 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The sheriff’s office has labeled the man as “Joe Doe” since deputies say he is unable to assist detectives with his identification. He was located in Goose Creek on Sept. 24.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2020 at 10:55 PM EDT
|By Riley Bean, Ray Rivera and Alexis Simmons
The largest ship to ever visit the U.S. east coast is coming to Charleston Sunday.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 2:55 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
A judge denied bond Tuesday night for the Bonneau man accused of stabbing the town’s police chief in the face with an ice pick.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 5:37 PM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
The program will provide an additional $300 in benefits on top of a claimant’s weekly benefit amount. Officials with the state’s Department of Employment and Workforce made the announcement late Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2020 at 4:45 AM EDT
|By Ray Rivera
Officials with the Charleston Police Department released pictures of three people in reference to the vandalism that happened on 399 King Street on Aug. 18 at 1:15 a.m.