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Rick Chow made national headlines in 2023 after he was accused of killing a 14-year-old he thought was shoplifting from his store.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott is calling for a Forest Acres bar to close after an officer-involved shooting there left one person dead on Mother’s Day.

A Conway man convicted on state charges of burning a cross in his yard to intimidate his Black neighbors entered a not guilty plea in federal court this week.

The new Tri-County Biological Science Center in North Charleston is expected to open in two years, promising to expedite forensic testing as an alternative to the state's busy and backlogged lab.

The wildfire, which originated in a fire pit on March 1, remains at 2,059 acres.

A South Carolina man who provided detailed testimony of how he brutally stabbed his friend's ex-wife 35 times was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison despite his claims the killing was justified because a child was in danger.

It took decades of work and numerous police agencies, but investigators now know what happened to 51-year-old Leola Etta Bryant after she vanished from a North Charleston bar in 1974.

Alex Murdaugh's appeal of a 40-year federal financial crimes sentence is denied but he's filed others, in his double murder conviction.

A South Carolina man pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday in the shooting death of a police officer in southwest Virginia in 2021.

A South Carolina judge on Friday threw out murder charges against a father and a stepmother, saying there was no new evidence they killed their 5-year-old child in 1989.