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The store two South Carolina teenagers shoplifted from decided against pressing charges, and will instead have them work to turn the incident into a learning opportunity.

“I think it just revealed a layer of her character, of what she deems most important, and that’s always the kids.”

Aliyah Boston had eight points, 14 rebounds and two blocks while reigning national champion South Carolina turned in its latest overwhelming defense-and-rebounding-first performance to beat UCLA 59-43 on Saturday in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Christy Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh's sister-in-law, stopped by Liberty Auction in Georgia Thursday to collect some of her family's belongings before they were auctioned off.

Christy Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh's sister-in-law, stopped by Liberty Auction in Georgia Thursday to collect some of her family's belongings before they were auctioned off.

Alexis Morris hit two foul shots with 10 seconds to play as No. 3 seed LSU reached the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, beating second-seeded Utah 66-63, Down 64-63, the Utes had a chance to back in front, but Jenna Johnson — a near 75% foul shooter — missed both attempts with 4.7 seconds to go.

A University of Memphis basketball player has been charged with assault after punching an opponent after the game while the teams were shaking hands, officials announced Friday.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham was sent a letter Thursday, in which the Senate Ethics Committee found he violated its rule about asking for campaign donations in federal buildings.

South Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate is moving to bar citizens of a “foreign adversary” from buying property in the state in an anti-espionage measure that critics fear will chill overseas investments over outsize concerns.

The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a Nov. 2022 Fox News interview in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate. Graham violated Senate rules and standards of conduct because he was in a Senate office building when he did the interview, the leaders of the ethics panel said in a rare public letter released on Thursday.

Republican Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom's decision to leave the post he has held for 20 years came after scrutiny of his performance following the blunder in a year-end financial report.

Abigail Arellano’s TikTok video of her bringing her new dog Loki home from a shelter has gone viral. Check it out.

Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw.

Embattled South Carolina Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw. The state's chief accountant will leave the elected post he has held for 20 years on April 30, according to a copy of the resignation letter obtained by The Associated Press. “I have never taken service to the state I love or the jobs to which I have been elected lightly, endeavoring to work with my colleagues, from constitutional officers to members of the General Assembly, to be a strong defender of the taxpayer and a good steward of their hard-earned tax dollars,” Eckstrom wrote in the March 23 letter to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster.

Sen. Tim Scott's trips to Iowa and New Hampshire and a donor summit are sparking speculation that the South Carolina Republican will launch a 2024 presidential campaign.

Women comprised less than half the head coaching positions and just over half of the assistant coaching spots for women's college sports teams in the 2021-22 school year.

Two South Carolinians who survived a harrowing cartel kidnapping in Mexico that left two of their friends dead reveal details of the "nightmare."

Two South Carolinians who survived a harrowing cartel kidnapping in Mexico that left two of their friends dead reveal details of the "nightmare."

While police in Sumter, South Carolina, released few details, investigators believe one of the two men found dead had shot the other man and three children.

Moselle, the Murdaugh family's 1,700-acre hunting estate in South Carolina, is set to sell for $3.7 million. The family's furniture is also up for auction in Georgia.

Conservationists want South Carolina to make the Venus fly trap the state’s official carnivorous plant.

Alex Murdaugh's jail call with an attorney during his trial was accidentally released, and a lawyer for the convicted killer is fuming over the breach.

A wave of TikTok videos posted over the weekend showed Myrtle Beach and other local police stopping Carolina squat drivers and towing companies moving vehicles away. Why is this happening?

In the aftermath of Alex Murdaugh's sentencing, the family of 19-year-old Stephen Smith is hoping a new autopsy will provide answers about his death in 2015.

Zia Cooke scored 21 points and Aliyah Boston had her 81st career double double as top-seeded South Carolina shoot a slow start to power past eighth-seeded South Florida and into the Sweet 16 with a 76-45 victory Sunday.

Lexington School District 1 has responded to River Bluff High School student Marissa Barnwell's lawsuit about saying the Pledge of Allegiance at school, citing surveillance video.

A South Carolina school district said a ninth grader walking in a hallway was stopped during a moment of silence and not the Pledge of Allegiance, as the student had said in a lawsuit filed last month. Marissa Barnwell said she was pushed against the wall by a teacher at River Bluff High School when she didn't stop to recite the pledge as she walked to class in November, according to her family's lawsuit. A lawyer for Lexington School District 1 said videos from the hallway shows the teacher touched Barnwell's shoulder to get her attention but didn't push her.

Republicans who are seeking to lead their party in the 2024 presidential race gathered in South Carolina this weekend.

Zia Cooke scored 11 points as No. 1 South Carolina moved five wins away from a perfect season after opening the women's NCAA Tournament with a 72-40 victory over No. 16 seed Norfolk State on Friday.

Aliyah Boston of South Carolina is just the 10th player to be named a first-team AP All-American for a third time.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected. At a campaign rally Monday night in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Haley promised not to touch the benefits of older people who retired with certain guarantees of a financial future. “We’re not taking it from seniors,” Haley said.

South Carolina has been at the top of their game all season long and on Sunday they were given the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.

An Army trainee who left a base in South Carolina without permission last year and briefly held a group of children hostage at gunpoint aboard a school bus has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. The decision agreed to by prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge means the 25-year-old New Jersey man will be sent to a state mental hospital for four additional months of treatment. The trainee left Fort Jackson near Columbia where he was in basic training in May 2021 with an unloaded rifle.

South Carolina has joined an exclusive group, going wire-to-wire as No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll.

Warmer spring weather means venomous snakes in South Carolina are out and about once again. Here’s how to avoid a nasty encounter.

South Carolina is six wins away from becoming the 10th women’s basketball team to go undefeated for an entire season, and the Gamecocks will enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

A South Carolina 9th grader's parents filed a federal lawsuit after their daughter was allegedly accosted for not stopping to say the Pledge of Allegiance when she was walking to class.

The parents of a South Carolina high school student are suing a teacher, principal, and other education officials saying she was accosted when she didn't stop and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials. Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. Barnwell was then sent to the principal's office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble.

The anonymous tip that led Mexican authorities to a remote shack where four abducted Americans were held described armed men, people wearing blindfolds and plenty of activity around a ranch.

Former South Carolina Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley shares her plans to address Social Security and why the retirement age should be changed on 'Your World.'

The South Carolina House approved a $1.3 billion package for a new electric SUV plant. The site hopes to hire nearly 4,000 workers for the $2 billion electric vehicle plant.

Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh filed a notice of appeal on Thursday just one week after he was convicted of double murder, then sentenced to life in prison.

The frantic effort to rescue four Americans taken captive by a cartel in Mexico during a kidnapping that left two dead came after a fifth person who traveled with the group to Texas called police there.

The violent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico has shaken families across the Carolinas who agonized for days while waiting to learn if their loved ones survived a cosmetic surgery road trip that turned deadly.

Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek medical care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday.

On Feb. 27, Carnival's Sunshine crew members and medical staff responded immediately to an unresponsive female passenger, the FBI said.

Marian Proctor, Maggie Murdaugh's sister, seen outside her home for the first time since her brother-in-law, Alex Murdaugh, was convicted of murdering his wife and son.

South Carolina remains No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll for a 37th consecutive week.

South Carolina’s governor says he is going to ask lawmakers to approve nearly $1.3 billion to bring to the state a new electric vehicle plant.

Zia Cooke scored 24 points and Aliyah Boston added 18 as No. 1 South Carolina pulled away in the final two quarters to beat Tennessee 74-58 for the SEC championship.

Laeticia Amihere scored 17 points and Aliyah Boston posted her 80th career double-double to lead No. 1 South Carolina into the SEC Tournament final for the eighth time in nine seasons with an 80-51 victory over Mississippi.

"A train killed my grandfather in 1940, and they have been killing our people ever since," Randolph Murdaugh III once joked.

A South Carolina woman says police officers who pulled her over for a traffic stop saved her life after they noticed she was experiencing a medical emergency.

Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial brought a business boost and frenzy of attention to a small South Carolina town.

Volkswagen's rebooted Scout Motors will build its first factory in Columbia, South Carolina, where it will manufacture electric pickups and SUVs.

Alex Murdaugh's mugshot was released following the disgraced lawyers double life sentence for killing his wife and son

People consumed the Murdaugh story in news coverage, podcasts and docuseries before Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife and son.

Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murders of his wife and son in South Carolina.

Murdaugh, 54, faces 30 years to life in prison without parole for each murder charge.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says Alex Murdaugh’s decision to take the stand in his double murder trial, in which he was found guilty, was “fatal for him.”

Alex Murdaugh faces a minimum of 30 years in prison and potentially life behind bars without parole.

The South Carolina attorney general and prosecutors who were on the Alex Murdaugh double murder case are reacting to a guilty verdict, saying that it was the result of a "Herculean effort."

The disgraced attorney was found guilty on Thursday in the double murder trial that’s enraptured the nation.

The attorney for Alex Murdaugh's family's housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, told 'America Reports' his thoughts on the state of the murder case in South Carolina.

Former Vice President Mike Pence isn't saying whether he'd back Donald Trump if Trump were to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.

After a juror was excused from the double murder trial of South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, she told the judge that she had left “a dozen eggs” in the jury room. The juror made the unusual comment after the judge in the case, Clifton Newman, notified her that she was being removed from the jury…

Alex Murdaugh's defense lawyer Jim Griffin blasted state investigators Thursday for so desperately trying to pin the murders on the defendant that they fabricated evidence.

The field trip came as prosecutors made their closing arguments in the weekslong trial where Alex Murdaugh stands accused of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son Paul.View Entire Post ›

Former South Carolina 14th Circuit District Solicitor Alex Murdaugh's murder trial continues to garner contrasting analysis, including from one attorney predicting an acquittal.

Jurors in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial will start their day at the crime scene in Islandton, South Carolina, to see where Maggie and Paul took their last breaths.

Kara Robinson was abducted by serial killer Richard Evonitz from her friend's yard in 2002. She was eventually able to escape and share information with authorities.

The South Carolina pathologist who performed autopsies on Maggie and Paul Murdaugh challenged claims made by the defense during day 26 of family patriarch Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial. Attorneys defending Murdaugh brought in a pathologist Monday to theorize that son Paul, 22, was shot in his head from point-blank range on the affluent family’s 1,700-acre estate in 2021. But Dr. Ellen Riemer, ...

South Carolina is No. 1 for the 36th consecutive week.

President Joe Biden has appointed a former Columbia, South Carolina, mayor to be a top White House adviser.

Vice President Kamala Harris promoted the Biden administration’s achievements on broadband internet access during a visit to South Carolina.

Brandon Miller scored 24 points and Mark Sears made 7 of 8 free throws over the final 1:04 to help No. 2 Alabama secure an 86-83 victory over Arkansas.

A South Carolina kindergartner has been charged after police say he carried a seven-inch long knife to his elementary school, stating that he wanted to stab his teachers and other students in the heart.

Zia Cooke scored 19 points and Kierra Fletcher had 15 as undefeated No. 1 South Carolina spoiled Tennessee’s pack-the-paint strategy in a 73-60 victory.

Utah would join South Carolina, Indiana and Stanford as No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament if it began now.

The battle for the national championship in women’s basketball is on.

Alabama standout freshman Brandon Miller was in the starting lineup and scored a career-high 41 points in a win over South Carolina.

Trav Robertson won’t seek another term leading South Carolina's Democrats.

Zia Cooke scored five of her 24 points in overtime to help No. 1 South Carolina remain unbeaten with a 64-57 victory over Mississippi.

The U.S. military says it has ended its search for airborne objects that were shot down near Deadhorse, Alaska, and over Lake Huron on Feb. 10 and 12.

The foreign affairs committee of China's ceremonial parliament is accusing American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the United States passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into U.S. airspace.

Nikki Haley made a subtle reference to the historic nature of her candidacy as she announced her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

China says it will enact measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast.

Kamilla Cardoso had 18 points and 13 rebounds, Zia Cooke scored 17 and No. 1 South Carolina beat third-ranked LSU 88-64 in a showdown of the last two unbeaten teams.

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it says are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.

The Pentagon says the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years."

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has strongly defended her team in response to comments by UConn coach Geno Auriemma after the top-ranked Gamecocks' 81-77 victory over the Huskies on Sunday.

The Navy has shifted to an all-underwater search for pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a U.S. fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.

South Carolina beat UConn to remain No. 1 in The Associated Press women's college basketball poll for the 33rd consecutive week.

Aliyah Boston scored 23 of her 26 points in the second half, including 14 in the fourth quarter, to help No. 1 South Carolina beat fifth-ranked UConn 81-77.

The downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon just off South Carolina’s coast created a spectacle over one of the state’s tourism hubs that drew reactions ranging from bewilderment to cheers.

Eyes were locked on the Carolina skies Saturday as the suspected Chinese spy balloon drifted over the Atlantic Ocean and was shot down by U.S. military fighters.

The Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved a new calendar lineup for the early stages of the party’s presidential nominating contests in 2024.

China is threatening what it calls “further actions” after an American fighter jet shot down a suspected spy balloon off the East Coast of the United States on Saturday.