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SC Public Radio News
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South Carolina opened its preseason camp without the talented and accomplished group of players led by All-Americans Aliyah Boston and Zia Cooke. South Carolina lost seven players off last year's team, the core of a program that has reached the last three Final Fours and won it all in 2022.
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Seven Republican presidential candidates took turns criticizing President Joe Biden's policies and former President Donald Trump's absence at the second GOP presidential debate in California.
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A daylong manhunt has ended on Johns Island with the deaths of the suspect and a K-9 with the State Law Enforcment Division. Authorities say Ernest Burbage lll shot the K-9 before brandishing a weapon and being killed by police.
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Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey share stories and recipes of the foods that make the South Carolina Jewish table in a new cookbook, "Kugels and Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina."
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The Chester County Opioid Summit is an attempt to bring the realities of opioid addictions to light, and offer some hope for the future.
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A South Carolina woman who killed her abuser with a kitchen knife six years ago will continue serving her 15-year prison term after the state parole board denied her early release Wednesday.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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This week, Dr. Eric Crawford, a Gullah/Geechee scholar and Associate Professor of Musicology at Claflin University in Orangeburg, joins us to talk about Gullah culture and about editing a second edition of the late Dr. Wilbur Cross’ book, Gullah Culture in America (Blair, 2022).The book chronicles the history and culture of the Gullah people, African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of the American South, telling the story of the arrival of enslaved West Africans to the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia; the melding of their African cultures, which created distinct creole language, cuisine, traditions, and arts; and the establishment of the Penn School, dedicated to education and support of the Gullah freedmen following the Civil War.
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Veteran journalist Adam Parker has covered just about everything for Charleston's Post and Courier newspaper, though he has spent most of his time writing about race, religion, and the arts. Us: A Journalist's Look at the Culture, Conflict and Creativity of the South (2022, Evening Post Books) is a collection of in-depth articles published over the course of nearly 20 years, and it reveals the breadth and scope of Parker's uncanny ability to pull back the scrim and take a hard look at ourselves and our community.Adam joins us to talk about his life and work, and to share some of the stories that he has written.
Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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September 30, 2023 — Recap and analysis of the second Republican presidential debate, including a breakdown of exchanges between the Palmetto State's homegrown hopefuls, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott.
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September 26, 2023 — We hear from former President Donald Trump and his supporters at a campaign stop in Summerville this week; what the end of American Recovery Plan Act childcare funds could mean for South Carolinians; and more.
Latest Episodes of the SC Business Review
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Most small companies would love to have millions of followers on social media to help them get their business to the next level. So, most entrepreneurs would be understandably envious of our next guest’s small farm that has over 4 million followers on TikTok. Mike Switzer interviews Jason Southers, co-founder of Goat Daddy Farm in Elgin, S.C.
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Most people have heard of angel investors, and angel funds that invest in early stage start-up companies that haven’t quite made it to the level of venture capital funding yet. Angels are usually for-profit investors, but we recently discovered a non-profit angel fund in our state and thought you might want to learn more, too. Mike Switzer interviews Mike Gatchell, CEO and co-founder of Abundance Capital in Greenville, S.C.
Latest Episodes of NatureNotes
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Phanaeus vindex, the rainbow scarab, is a species of dung beetle known for its bright metallic shell.
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The brown anole, Anolis sagrei, is a species of lizard in the family native to Cuba and the Bahamas.
More Local and National News
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The Tamaulipas state police said about 100 people were in the church during a Mass at the time of the Sunday collapse.
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Taylor Swift means business. The popstar brought an economic boost to the NFL after she was seen at a Chiefs game. Her appearance at MetLife Stadium gives the franchise another opportunity to cash in.
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"No one is safe," Paris first deputy mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said in a tweet on Friday.
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His role in the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry of the early 2000s turned Wakefield into a fan favorite whose impact went far beyond his numbers.
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The New York Democrat says a mistake occurred as he was rushing to get to a vote, but Republicans have suggested Bowman was trying to delay the proceedings.
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The new law, signed by Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont in June, bans the open carrying of firearms and prohibits the sale of more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions.
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New Zealand has declared war on tobacco with a remarkable new law. The indigenous Māori population, with the country's highest smoking rate, has a lot to gain. But they have a bone of contention.
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Deep in a forest in the Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a castle the medieval way — no motorized machines included.
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Rob Delaney found out his youngest son Henry had brain cancer. This is a story about the saddest of places life can take you, but it's also about the biggest of loves and how to scrape up bits of joy.
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Amid those hawking corndogs and cheese curds at the Minnesota State Fair, the Army is trying to sell itself. An effort to entice sign ups is happening as the Army struggles to fill its ranks.
South Carolina Public Radio News Updates
Where does debt come from? How does it get so out of hand? And why is it such a difficult topic to discuss? On South Carolina Public Radio's podcast InDebted, host Scott Morgan dives into the factors that make the Palmetto State one of the worst places for personal debt in the country and tells the stories of real South Carolinians living in this ecosystem of debt.
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