Victoria Hansen
Reporter, ProducerVictoria Hansen is our Lowcountry connection covering the Charleston community, a city she knows well. She grew up in newspaper newsrooms and has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 20 years. Her first reporting job brought her to Charleston where she covered local and national stories like the Susan Smith murder trial and the arrival of the Citadel’s first female cadet.
An opportunity to anchor the news for an ABC affiliate took her to Nashville, Tennessee. But summer vacations were always spent in Charleston. She moved back in 2006 to the city she calls home to anchor and report again at the tv station where she began.
Victoria has volunteered and served as a spokesperson for numerous nonprofits. She has been honored with multiple Emmys as well as a Community Service Award from the South Carolina Broadcasters Association. It is her passion for community service that brings her to South Carolina Public Radio.
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Four months after Dr. Eric Gallien was named Charleston County’s new school superintendent, the district board has accepted a settlement agreement releasing him from his duties. The unanimous decision was made after board members revealed an investigation into a complaint Gallien had created a hostile work environment showed he did nothing wrong.
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Multiple law enforcement agencies are once again asking for help finding a missing Sumter mother and her 2-year-old son. Sophia and Matteo Van Dam disappeared from their home in June.
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Louise Ravenel Dougherty was a longtime Charlestonian who fought for the rights of physically and mentally disabled people well before there was a national push to do so. She died Oct. 15 at the age of 94.
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Seven months after his double murder conviction, Alex Murdaugh has a chance to present evidence for a new trial. The South Carolina Court of Appeals ordered a lower court Tuesday to hear allegations of jury tampering by the Colleton County clerk of court.
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A North Charleston police officer who seems to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time is sharing his story of helping save a toddler who fell from a moving car last week and severed her arm.
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The nation's highest court will now decide if South Carolina's 1st Congressional District was racially gerrymandered and must be redrawn or if a lower court got it wrong.
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A daylong manhunt has ended on Johns Island with the deaths of the suspect and a K-9 with the State Law Enforcment Division. Authorities say Ernest Burbage lll shot the K-9 before brandishing a weapon and being killed by police.
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Hordes of books are being released and a new Netflix documentary just dropped featuring the clerk of court in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial. But six months later, the case may not be over as that clerk, Becky Hill, is now accused of jury tampering. It’s the latest twist in a dizzying saga.
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Donald Trump didn’t have much convincing to do as he spoke to a crowd of supporters Monday during a re-election rally at a boat manufacturing facility in Dorchester County. Many wore shirts and pins with Trump’s mugshot reading, “wanted for president”.
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Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty in federal court to stealing $9 million from former personal injury clients, colleagues and friends. Federal authorities now estimate the amount is more, $10.5 million and the crime spree longer.