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The Coming Street YWCA, built in 1964, played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. It's been demolished by the College of Charleston as the school hopes to build new dorms.
South Carolina News
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Congressman Russell Fry says he's supporting Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina's Republican Senate primary runoff. The move aligns Fry with other powerful Republicans, including President Donald Trump and Sen. Tim Scott, who have both backed Graham.
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A judge has decided to move Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial out of the small county where it originally took place. The judge will wait to hear a motion from Murdaugh's lawyers that the case should be dismissed because of alleged misconduct by state investigators.
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Members of South Carolina State Fire's Palmetto Incident Support Team will assist with emergency preparedness efforts ahead of potential impacts from Hurricane Lala.
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The collection of photographs by Richard Samuel Roberts offers a rare look at Black families, businesses, schools, and communities in early 20th-century Columbia.
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Oysters are much more than a favorite seafood. A single oyster can filter gallons of water each day, helping improve water quality and support healthy coastal ecosystems.
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A man from Augusta was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Thursday morning, for having shot a state trooper during a 2023 traffic stop.
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Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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This week we’ll be talking with Charleston author James M. Scott, author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War (2026, W.W. Norton & Company). With startling immediacy, Empire of Ashes illuminates the moral dilemma at the center of America’s decision to inflict total war upon Japan.
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This week we will be talking with Carl P. Borick, author of Backcountry Resistance: South Carolina's Militia and the Fight for American Independence (2026, USC Press).As the title indicates, Carl’s book focuses on rank-and-file militiamen of the backcountry and explores how these ordinary men were recruited, armed, fed, and motivated.Drawing on underused pension records and state claims, he reconstructs their everyday realities and their battlefield experiences. He also examines the war's devastating effects on civilians, including enslaved people and women, who played crucial roles in the struggle.
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Latest Episodes of the SC Lede
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 15, 2026: we are heading to the August 25 special U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman; we hear from the two of them on election night; we also get analysis and a look ahead with political communications strategist Rob Godfrey; and more!
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On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for August 11, 2026: you’ve already heard from the candidates, now you’re going to hear from the voters on this special election day; we’ll also discuss Pres. Donald Trump’s influence on this race; host Gavin Jackson brings you clips from his visit to Joint Base Charleston, now Joint Base Lindsey Graham, on Monday; and more!
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This week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Gerard Silvestri about research indicating that many advanced lung cancer patients never receive treatment.
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This week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Anthony Kent about screening and early detection of kidney disease.
Nation and World
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In 2025, South Carolina implemented a statewide ban on cellphone use in classrooms. Nationwide, early results are mixed. Some schools report fewer disruptions, more engagement, and small gains in academic performance, and teachers describe calmer classrooms and more attention.
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Each summer, when school lets out, children fall behind in reading. Research shows that students lose one to two months of reading proficiency over the summer. For struggling readers or children with learning disabilities, the losses can be even greater.
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You better not be throwing away your shot, because it's Broadway week here on Who What When.
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This week, we’re firing up the Who What When time machine and heading back to the 1930s.
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President Trump explained the decision by saying South Korea had declined to help with the "denuclearization" of Iran and he cited his good relationship with North Korea's leader.
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Some parts of Indiana received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days, beginning Aug. 11, causing record floods. Several suburbs of Indianapolis also underwater.
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Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas leadership Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire.
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The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point.
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On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.
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Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts.
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Hundreds of migrants have again attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. This time, Moroccan officials fended them off, raising new questions about the crossing of July 30.
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A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.
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Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.
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Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction.