Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Attorneys representing the family of a Hampton County teen found dead on the side of the road in 2015 are holding a virtual news conference.
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.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 5:52 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Blair Sabol
One of Alex Murdaugh’s closest friends took the stand Thursday morning in the Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 4:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Authorities are evacuating the Colleton County Courthouse where disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh is standing trial on two charges of murder.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial told the courtroom Tuesday that a juror had to go to the emergency room but that it would not affect the trial.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 10:19 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
A judge is expected to hear additional testimony from banking officials Friday morning as he decides whether the jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial will hear it.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Some of the testimony in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Thursday was heard without the jury being present.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 6:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
State prosecutors claim a video taken on the night Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were killed at their Colleton County home puts Alex Murdaugh at the scene despite his telling investigators he wasn’t there.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 6:04 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of Alex Murdaugh continued Tuesday morning with the defense cross-examining a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigator.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 10:06 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
In a Colleton County courthouse Monday, prosecutors continued to present their case in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 9:36 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute, Blair Sabol and Jeffrey Collins
The former lawyer accused of murdering his own wife and son returned to the courtroom as the state continued to present its case against him Monday.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
Evidence collection and preservation continued as the main theme during day five of the Alex Murdaugh trial.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:59 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Jeffrey Collins and Blair Sabol
The prosecution called a deputy who responded to the scene of the June 7, 2021, double killing at Alex Murdaugh’s family property as its first witness in the murder trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 4:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Marissa Lute
Opening statements from each side show vastly different interpretations of what the state is calling key evidence in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
A busy second day in the Alex Murdaugh trial saw the judge rule on three motions and qualify a fourth pool of jurors to return for actual jury selection.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will begin in Walterboro this week with jury selection set to begin Monday morning.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2022 at 12:04 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The Charleston Animal Society said on social media that “Juliet,” a cat brought in for life-saving surgery to remove 38 hair ties from her stomach, has died.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 10:00 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
A bill referred to the House Ways and Means Committee would give South Carolinians the opportunity to take a ride to space.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 7:21 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Two inmates helped a South Carolina corrections officer who was being assaulted Monday night, the state’s department of corrections said.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 7:52 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Thanksgiving travelers should prepare to pay more than ever during the holiday, according to GasBuddy.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 12:56 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Nick Reagan
A federal lawsuit claims Facebook radicalized Dylann Roof culminating in the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 12:37 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina fell 6.7 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon down to $3.26, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 11:29 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The man charged with killing a 17-year-old in Myrtle Beach back in 2009 is expected to appear in court Wednesday.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 6:32 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina rose 6.8 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon up to $3.23, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2022 at 8:02 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Dylan Leatherwood
Hurricane Ian officially made landfall Friday afternoon just south of Georgetown as a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center said.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 1:25 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
Four of the eight students on the bus and the driver were taken to the hospital, along with the student who had been hit.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 7:09 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Prices in the Palmetto State are 21.5 cents lower than a month ago and 37.3 cents higher than one year ago.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2022 at 8:19 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
First responders across the Tri-County area went beyond the call of duty Thursday for a young girl who unexpectedly lost her older brother this month.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 8:14 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Emily Johnson
North Charleston Police responded to a large fight that broke out at the North Charleston Chuck E. Cheese restaurant Saturday night, arresting three and temporarily detaining a fourth person.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 9:23 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
A police officer in South Carolina is being recognized for helping save a woman from a burning car.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Blair Sabol and Steven Ardary
Former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will make his first court appearance Wednesday morning since being charged with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 11:33 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Debra Worley
The Charleson County Sheriff’s Office said Jennings was walking on the road when he was hit by a vehicle that drove away from the area then hit again by a second vehicle that also left the scene.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The South Carolina State Fair has opened submissions for competitive exhibits.
Updated: May. 31, 2022 at 3:37 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Charleston Police Sgt. Elisabeth Wolfsen said “multiple people” were struck by gunfire.
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