Associated Press

Coast Guard rescuers saved two people from the water after their yacht sank off South Carolina. The Coast Guard said the rescue happened Friday near the Winyah Bay entrance, close to Georgetown.

A 79-year-old South Carolina man avoided a possible death sentence Thursday by agreeing to plead guilty to ambushing police officers coming to his home, killing two of the officers and wounding five others.

Federal officials have issued a warning about a substantial safety violation at a South Carolina nuclear plant after cracks were discovered again in a backup emergency fuel line.

Two bars accused of overserving a woman who authorities say drunkenly hit a golf cart carrying a newlywed couple away from their reception, killing the bride, have reached a tentative settlement with the groom, who was seriously injured.

A 14-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting over a yearslong squabble that left three teenagers dead and another injured in the capital city of South Carolina, officials said Tuesday.

Authorities say two people killed three teenagers and wounded a fourth in South Carolina's capital city in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary. Sunday afternoon's shooting happened at an abandoned house where the four teenagers were hanging out.

The crash site for a stealth fighter jet that went missing during the weekend after its pilot ejected was located Monday in rural South Carolina after the military asked the public for help finding an aircraft built to elude detection.

Authorities searched near two South Carolina lakes on Monday for a military jet that apparently crashed after the pilot safely ejected over the weekend.

A USC student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street in Columbia early Saturday, police said.

A longtime friend of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has pleaded guilty to helping the disgraced attorney steal millions of dollars of insurance settlements from the sons of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper.