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I was walking beside a Lowcountry tidal creek recently and noticed a rough line of oyster shell at the water's edge. It may not look like much from a distance, but an oyster reef is a living neighborhood.
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Judge Debra McCaslin has chosen a new venue for Alex Murdaugh's retrial. And it's not what his defense team had asked for. -
Gov. McMaster presented former S.C. Sen. Roger Nutt, a Spartanburg Republican who resigned his seat after an Alzheimer's diagnosis, with the Order of the Palmetto, the state's highest civilian honor. -
The U.S. District Attorney's office said the final defendant was sentenced Tuesday. -
South Carolina is home to the Eastern wild turkey, and thanks to decades of conservation and restoration work, turkeys are now found in every county in the state. -
Discovered in Georgia three years ago, yellow-legged hornets have made their way to the Lowcountry. The elusive and skilled hunters threaten the lives of honeybees. -
Southeastern Conference leaders to discuss kicking LSU out of league over player eligibility disputeLeaders of the Southeastern Conference plan to meet Thursday to discuss possibly kicking LSU out of the conference. This follows a feud over whether players with NFL experience should return to college rosters.
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South Carolina Public Radio News Updates
The State House Gavel shares updates about the South Carolina General Assembly, including legislative actions, debates and discussions. Featuring news and interviews, so you have access to the latest developments in policy and decisions that shape South Carolina’s future.
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David Goldman/APA growing number of news stories show that more South Carolinians are (quite literally) striking back against automated license plate readers. The moment is prompting some deep questions. -
Scott Morgan/South Carolina Public RadioCounty planners upheld a denial for one data center while state officials said they won't regulate another. -
Jonathan Short/AP Photo/Jonathan Short/InvisionMorning Edition Host Kristina Thacker talks with the Palmetto Project about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. -
Win McNamee/Getty Images North AmericaIn a major win for President Trump who went all in for the political newcomer, Sen. Darline Graham beat out longtime Congressman Ralph Norman in a special election primary runoff in South Carolina.
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Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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SCETVWith every growing season, the South is in danger of losing an ingredient that’s shaped our state’s flavor, history, and culture. This week, we will be talking with Chef Kevin Mitchell and food historian David Shields, hosts of the SCETV and PBS series The Savers of Flavor about their ongoing search for the vanishing ingredients of Southern cuisine. Over the course of four episodes David and Kevin embark on a quest to seek out and rescue those ingredients before they are lost forever. -
Charles Willson Peale/Viginia Museum of History and Culture,1960.1, Gift of Percy Robert BlytheThis week Walter will talk with historian Albert Louis Zambone about Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan.In his book Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life (2018, Westholme Publishing) the first biography of this iconic figure in forty years, historian Albert Zambone presents Morgan as the quintessential American everyman, who rose through his own dogged determination from poverty and obscurity to become one of the great battlefield commanders in American history. Using social history and other advances in the discipline that had not been available to earlier biographers, the author provides an engrossing portrait of this storied personality of America’s founding era—a common man in uncommon times.
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Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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SC Public RadioOn this episode of the South Carolina Lede for September 9, 2026: we hear from Congressman Jim Clyburn who was on Meet the Press discussing a variety of issues, including what it would take for Dr. Annie Andrews to win in November; we have comments from California Gov. Gavin Newsom who was at several events during his two-day swing last week; and more! -
SC Public RadioOn this episode of the South Carolina Lede for September 5, 2026: host Gavin Jackson brings you his exclusive one-on-one interview with former South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Cannon Few in his first interview since losing the support of the General Assembly this past March in his attempt to get reelected to a second, 10-year term to the state Supreme Court; they talk about his career, his legacy, and the circumstances around that election process, as well as his thoughts on judicial elections; and more!
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Provided/MUSCThis week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Bailey O’Donnell about e-bike safety for children.
Nation and World
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Learning to live with a roommate is one of the biggest adjustments for college students. Sharing a dorm room, whether it’s with a friend from high school or someone new, requires communication and compromise -
Leaving for college is a big transition. For many students, it’s the first time living away from home, managing a schedule, and making new friends.
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This week, we’re heading back to school for an episode about America’s colleges and universities. -
We hope you brought your sunscreen this week because we’re heading to the beach with this episode about notable islands around the world.
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From lesson plans to teacher recertification, see the latest from SCETV's Education team.
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Prosecutors told the court that Andrew and Tristan Tate boasted about having multiple passports and flying on private jets. But the Tates' lawyers argued they were only playing a role for their fans. -
In the months following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers were assured that the air around the fallen twin towers in downtown Manhattan was safe to breathe. It’s taken nearly 25 years for New York City officials to finally admit that was not true. -
As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, thousands of workers without legal status who cleaned up Lower Manhattan in the wake of the attacks remain in the shadows, facing chronic illness and the constant threat of deportation.
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The independent, bipartisan 9/11 Commission that investigated the attacks concluded that all the warning signs were there and even some of the attackers were being tracked by various intelligence agencies, but the government failed to “connect the dots.”
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The floating Olympic cauldron, held aloft by a giant glowing balloon, is still making regular appearances two years after the 2024 Paris Games, showing up all summer long in the nighttime Paris sky. -
Will artificial intelligence nibble around the edges of the economy or upend it altogether? A new, interactive model from Anthropic lets people tests their assumptions. -
Bangladesh has seen over 50,000 confirmed or suspected cases of measles this year. The death toll among children just surpassed 1,000. How are officials trying to bring the outbreak under control? -
A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state." -
The U.S. military says it has destroyed five Iranian oil tankers as the conflict continues to escalate. And, Smithsonian head Lonnie G. Bunch III says he plans to step down by the end of the year. -
Flight data suggest an Amazon cargo plane tried to abort an unsteady landing at Miami International Airport before smashing into a van and killing five people inside, according to information investigators released Tuesday.
