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The first hurricane of the Atlantic season is prompting mandatory evacuations, school closures and local government shutdowns in parts of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. What to know about potential impacts in South Carolina.

Schweinitz's sunflowers are native to the Piedmont. Development drove them to the edge of extinction. But a local effort is seeing them come back.

Prosecutors say they've already turned over cellphone data sought by Alex Murdaugh's defense team.

City of Columbia police cited a volunteer distributing free meals to the city's unhoused community outside of Richland Library Main under a city ordinance that bars congregating on sidewalks in front of public buildings.

There have now been 31 officer-involved shootings in the state this year, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division reports.

Re:Build's $20 million investment will create 150 jobs.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first-wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.

A bipartisan bill backed by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., would create a 20% federal tax credit for film and TV projects, with bonus credits for rural areas, disaster zones, and independent productions.

Murdaugh's defense team wants to know more about a grand jury investigation into allegations officers removed bloody clothes and weapons from the crime scene in 2021.

Agencies that assist crime victims in South Carolina will receive more than $29 million in grants.