Maayan Schechter
Reporter, ProducerMaayan Schechter (My-yahn Schek-ter) is a news reporter with South Carolina Public Radio and ETV. She worked at South Carolina newspapers for a decade, previously working as a reporter and then editor of The State’s S.C. State House and politics team, and as a reporter at the Aiken Standard and the Greenville News. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Asheville in 2013.
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The Department of Justice has given South Carolina's State Election Commission a deadline extension of Sept. 5 to send its voter registration list to assess its "compliance" with federal requirements. -
South Carolina's top prosecutor asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a federal appeals court ruling and bar a transgender student from using a school restroom that aligns with their gender identity. -
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A Georgia lender accused of running a Ponzi scheme that the feds say defrauded 300 investors of almost $140 million donated money to at least four South Carolina Republicans. -
Christian Soto, identified in federal court documents as a registered nurse in Oklahoma, has been indicted in a child sex abuse material case connected to suspended South Carolina Rep. RJ May. -
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A 17-year-old Lexington teenager has died after the Saluda County Coroner's Office said he fell out of his boat into Lake Murray on Monday afternoon. -
The city of Columbia and Richland County leaders presented on July 29, 2025, new details about public-private partnership with developer Core Spaces to redevelop a large parking lot on the 1400 Main Street block in downtown Columbia. -
The Richland County Sheriff's Department charged the first person under a newly enacted hate crime ordinance. -
Funeral services for a 12-year-old Columbia-area middle school student who died July 18 after contracting a rare amoeba from South Carolina's Lake Murray will be held Saturday, July 26.
