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OCSO is the first local law enforcement agency in the Upstate to adopt Prepared Live. Officers say it has the potential to be a game changer for public safety.

A lawsuit claims officers fired approximately 50 rounds at a despondent man on what was supposed to be a wellness check. The sheriff's office claims officers reacted appropriately to a man with a gun.

Technology makes managing properties easier, but it's having other effects on residents who rent. You might not be able to easily resolve your issues with your landlord, or you might not even get an apartment because of an error you can't see.

Several nonprofits and agencies exist to help you navigate your way through debt and financing in South Carolina. And for free.

RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit based in New York, buys medical debt through donations, then wipes those debts clean. It's a solution rooted in its CEO's impatience with waiting for the system to fix itself.

Debt is not just a poor person's plight. People with good credit and equity are like a buffet to lenders who want a piece of your wealth. And they have fantastically complicated contract language to distract you with.

South Carolina has a high percentage of uninsured residents. That's not helping the state's place among the most debt-burdened.

South Carolina is second only to West Virginia in the share of residents with medical debt in collections. The why is a tangle of healthcare costs, disproportionate incomes, and low insurance rates. For starters.

'Michelle Strickland' has been hit about as hard as anyone could get hit financially. Her full story isn't exactly commonplace, but her plight navigating South Carolina's medical debt environment is.

Medicaid disenrollment won’t be sudden. But in a non-expansion state like South Carolina, returning to the old normal could hit especially hard.