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I watched a wood stork feeding in a shallow wetland not long ago. It moved slowly, sweeping its open bill from side to side through the water.
South Carolina News
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Today, Sept. 10th, marks the official climatological peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. It’s the day when the ocean is prime for tropical development.
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The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says the suspect died following the incident that began in Florence County and ended in Williamsburg County on Sept. 9.
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Police say a suspect's father hid his son from authorities as they searched for the killers of a 17-year-old student at his school bus stop.
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The Southeastern Conference is no longer expected to vote on whether to expel LSU from the league on Thursday. That's according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the SEC has not released a public statement about canceling the planned vote.
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Conversations on Flock cameras returned to Spartanburg County Wednesday, after Sheriff Bill Rhyne credited the tech for helping locate a missing child.
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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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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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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.
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A 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.
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County planners upheld a denial for one data center while state officials said they won't regulate another.
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Morning Edition Host Kristina Thacker talks with the Palmetto Project about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
Inspiring your mornings with classical music, then complementing your evenings with indie, jazz, and more, Sound Shift flows with your day.
Latest episodes of Walter Edgar's Journal
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With 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.
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This 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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On 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!
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On 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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This week, Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Aundrea Loftley about type 2 diabetes and GLP-1 medications.
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This 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
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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.
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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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The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.
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The rebel group took over Yemen's port of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 50 miles from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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Scientists say that August was the hottest month ever recorded globally. In the U.S., summer temperatures also shattered heat records.
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The sweeping lawsuit brought by Common Cause argues federal agencies are illegally surveilling and intimidating people who try to peacefully observe federal immigration enforcement activity.
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An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
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Sports journalist Sabreena Merchant says culture war issues related to race and trans athletes threaten to overshadow exceptional play on the WNBA court.
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On the day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last year, Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd went to a Phoenix church important to the conservative leader's mission of marrying religion and politics.
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This week, a drone linked to Russia nearly hit a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Norway, according to the prime minister of Norway.
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Lila Nordstrom watched the first of the twin towers fall from a 10th-floor window at Stuyvesant High School 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Barbara Keating died aboard one of the planes that hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center. Her remains were finally identified last year, and her family is gathering for a long-delayed funeral.