Associated Press
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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.
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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.
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A longtime friend of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for scheming to steal millions of dollars in insurance settlements from the sons of his dead housekeeper.
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A towering North Carolina roller coaster that shut down in June due to a large crack in its support column reopened Thursday after a month of repairs and testing, the park announced on its website.
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Unionized dockworkers have the right to staff every job at a new container terminal in Charleston under a federal court decision — but there is no guarantee that a $1 billion loading site that has sat largely idle will soon resume activity.
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book on growing up Black in America in her advanced English class.
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South Carolina is expanding the number of drunk driving offenders who must install temporary breathalyzers before taking the wheel.
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Man charged with murder in deaths of daughter, sister-in-law after 6 people found dead in house fireA man has been charged with murder in the killings of his sister-in-law and daughter after South Carolina authorities found six people dead while responding to reports of a house fire and stabbings, officials said at a press conference Monday.
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A judge has shut a courtroom from the public and reporters as he heard pretrial motions in the death penalty case of a South Carolina man charged with killing two police officers in a 2018 ambush. Court hearings in South Carolina are almost always open. But WPDE-TV reported that lawyers for Frederick Hopkins successfully argued Thursday holding a public hearing about whether some evidence or statements from witness would be allowed at his trial would expose potential jurors to information a judge might later decide to exclude. Prosecutors did not challenge the request.
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Virginia's attorney general says a wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series "Tiger King" has been convicted of wildlife trafficking. Attorney General Jason Miyares said Tuesday that Bhagavan "Doc" Antle was accused of illegally buying endangered lion cubs in Virginia for display and profit at his South Carolina zoo.