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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.

Federal prosecutors say a supervisor who managed security at a South Carolina prison accepted more than $219,000 in bribes over three years and got 173 contraband cellphones for inmates.

Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm. The 55-year-old disbarred attorney is already serving a life sentence without parole in a state prison for killing his wife and son.

A man who claims he lost his livelihood after being accused of kidnapping and murdering a New York teenager in South Carolina is suing the federal government.

The secretive relationship between a South Carolina man and a Black transgender woman has been the focus of the nation’s first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity.