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A 30-year-old South Carolina trooper has died three days after being struck on the side of an interstate by a box truck. Trooper 1st Class Dennis Ricks was hit while walking back to his cruiser after a traffic stop.

South Carolina's roads agency is celebrating a major $825 million project to widen part of Interstate 95. The agency has transformed over the past decade, thanks to a 12-cent gas tax increase.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has resigned from the House while awaiting trial on charges of distributing child sexual abuse material. RJ May's resignation letter, dated Thursday, reached House leadership on Monday. May was elected in 2020. His replacement could be chosen in a special election before the 2026 session.

Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone.

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina's most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the warm water and entered his brain through his nose.

A deputy in South Carolina has been killed in an ambush while attempting to arrest a suspect. Authorities say Darlington County deputy Devin Mason and another officer were attacked inside a home near Lamar around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Under the hot South Carolina summer sun, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial bill signing for a law he and other supporters said will make sure the rapidly growing state has the energy to run air conditioners and anything else well into the future.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Stephen Stanko because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process.

Instead of talking a lot about budget vetoes, Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is talking about all his priorities that the Republican legislature kept in the spending plan like tax cuts, disaster relief and teacher raises.