Updated: Sep. 28, 2023 at 6:31 PM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Authorities confirmed Thursday afternoon that Ernest Robert Burbage III was found dead.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 12:18 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Disbarred Lowcountry attorney and convicted killer Alex Murduagh entered a guilty plea to 22 federal charges on financial crimes Thursday morning.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 3:09 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A South Carolina Grand Jury on Sept. 12 returned an indictment on four charges for a woman accused of hitting a golf cart with her car, killing a woman and injuring three others while intoxicated.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2023 at 8:32 AM EDT
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Joint Base Charleston confirmed Monday night that found a debris field now believed to be the site of an F-35 crash two hours northeast of the base.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Teams from various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies worked together to locate the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and James Pollard
A judge has sentenced the former South Carolina attorney who pleaded guilty to state charges ranging from breach of trust with fraudulent intent, money laundering and criminal conspiracy.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 7:25 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A convicted killer will spend the rest of his sentence behind bars after the South Carolina Supreme Court vacated an order from a circuit court that granted him an early release.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 5:04 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
A newborn was recently surrendered to health care providers at a South Carolina hospital.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 1:30 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Emily Van de Riet
Four sea turtles were released back into the wild after receiving months of care.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2023 at 11:28 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Emily Johnson
Gov. Henry McMaster is calling a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling on the state’s fetal heartbeat bill a victory for the sanctity of life.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The woman charged in an April crash that killed a newlywed and seriously injured the groom and two others will make an appearance in bond court Tuesday.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2023 at 1:12 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Jamie Komoroski is charged with one count of reckless homicide resulting in death and three counts of felony DUI resulting in great bodily injury or death.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Meredith Blair
A man who led law enforcement agencies on a four-day manhunt before being captured in Berkeley County in May escaped a Pennsylvania jail, authorities said.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2023 at 11:04 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
President Joe Biden will be traveling to West Columbia Thursday.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2023 at 12:41 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office says emergency services are on the scene of an alligator incident Tuesday morning.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2023 at 4:56 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
President Joe Biden will be in the Palmetto State this week.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2023 at 4:23 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Caitlin Ashbaugh
A murder investigation is underway after six people were found dead and another in critical condition in Colleton County Sunday, authorities said.
Updated: Jun. 13, 2023 at 6:56 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A U.S. Coast Guard crew jumped into action last week to make a rescue in the Charleston Harbor.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2023 at 5:24 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
The South Carolina Aquarium released two loggerhead sea turtles back into the ocean this week.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2023 at 11:20 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
A 19-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2023 at 3:07 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The Georgetown County Coroner’s Office says a 16-year-old who drowned at a state park Tuesday was trying to help another child.
Updated: Jun. 6, 2023 at 6:48 PM EDT
|By Mary Green, Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Gov. Henry McMaster is calling on state lawmakers to create stiffer penalties for illegal gun possession and reform the state’s bond process.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 6:52 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
Deputies found one person inside a vehicle who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 6:06 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Lawyers for the woman charged in connection with an accident that killed a newlywed bride on Folly Beach have filed a motion for bond claiming she is not a threat to the community or a flight risk.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 1:07 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Elisheva Wimberly and Steven Ardary
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott announced his White House bid at his alma mater in North Charleston Monday morning, saying he’s the candidate the far left “fears the most.”
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 7:58 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Jimmy Buffett announced on Facebook that his Charleston concert scheduled for Saturday is getting postponed.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A man involved in a Folly Beach crash on his wedding night that killed his bride and injured him and two others has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the accused driver and several Lowcountry restaurants and bars.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2023 at 8:14 AM EDT
|By Mary Green and Steven Ardary
A push to ban abortion from conception in South Carolina, and enact one of the most restrictive laws in the country, is now seemingly done for the year.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2023 at 8:01 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Patrick Phillips and Dylan Leatherwood
The South Carolina Supreme Court is vacating the order that released a convicted killer years before his sentence was up.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2023 at 11:18 PM EDT
|By Anna Harris and Steven Ardary
The South Carolina governor will be flanked by local officials and the head of the state’s law enforcement division to push for harsher penalties for those in possession of illegal guns following a shooting on a Charleston County beach that injured five people Friday.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 5:52 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
A dog missing for three years is finally back home.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 9:50 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Amanda Alvarado
Stephen Smith was 19 years old when he was found dead on the side of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, in 2015.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Attorneys representing the family of a Hampton County teen found dead in the middle of the road in 2015 say they plan to petition a court to exhume the teen’s body as they seek justice in his killing.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A former Citadel cadet was sentenced on Wednesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 7:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Michal Higdon
The jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Attorneys in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial are expected to deliver their closing arguments beginning Wednesday after jurors visited the scene of the killings of the disbarred Lowcountry attorney’s wife and son in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
Prosecutors are expected to call two rebuttal witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Tuesday, a day after the defense rested its case.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 6:20 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Emilie Zuhowski, Michal Higdon and Anna Harris
The defense in the Alex Murdaugh double-murder trial rested its case after calling 14 witnesses over the course of a week.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Molly McBride
The sixth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began Monday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse with word that the jury will be able to see the rural property where Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 at 7:19 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will return to the stand Friday morning to face more questions as he stands trial for murder.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh told the judge overseeing his murder trial he does plan to testify in his own defense.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2023 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys could wrap up their case by the end of the week as they attempt to prove that the disbarred Lowcountry attorney did not kill his wife and youngest son.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
After a long weekend, the trial of Alex Murdaugh resumes Tuesday morning as his defense team works to prove he is not guilty of the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2023 at 4:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Melissa Rademaker
The state presented evidence from updated technology in the SUV that Alex Murdaugh was driving the night his wife and son were murdered on the 20th day of the Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 5:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Prosecutors are nearing the end of their case against Alex Murdaugh, the disbarred Lowcountry attorney charged with the 2021 murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 10:55 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
The judge in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial is expected to decide Wednesday morning whether the jury will hear testimony about the shooting that nearly killed the former attorney months after the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team worked to establish doubt over testimony from the doctor who performed autopsies on Maggie and Paul Murdaugh and the man who took care of the dog kennels.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 9:01 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Jeffrey Collins
The fourth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began with word from the judge that two jurors tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Blair Sabol
Prosecutors in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial are approaching the end of their list of witnesses on financial crimes.