Federal investigators believe lightning may have played a role in igniting a fire at Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, South Carolina, on Tuesday night.
Wednesday’s chance of winning big at Powerball is here. And since no one won the grand prize last Saturday -- when the winning numbers were: 18, 28, 35, 46, 49, and 27 -- all that money has rolled over and is now at $60 million with a $36.5 million cash value.
Activist Brittany "Bree" Newsome is being hailed as a hero for climbing up a 30-foot flagpole outside the South Carolina State Capitol building and physically removing the Confederate battle flag on Saturday.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz thinks it ought to be up to South Carolinians whether the Confederate battle flag should continue to form part of a state house memorial in Columbia; the Texas senator noted that he understood "both sides" of the debate.
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (R) is creating a plan with state House leaders to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state House grounds following a national debate on the issue.
A South Carolina grand jury indicted former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager with murder for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in the back earlier this year.
On Monday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham became the ninth Republican to cast his bid in the 2016 presidential race. He faces stiff competition from the other Republican contenders.
A new lawsuit has been filed against the South Carolina police officer who is currently facing murder charges for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in the back earlier this month.
A local newspaper reports that the South Carolina police officer charged with murder for fatally shooting an unarmed black man in the back will not face the death penalty.
On Friday, the president will visit South Carolina for the first time since he won the primary run. Though some GOP members have politicized the visit, Democrats are happy the president is finally visiting.
The University of South Carolina's busy downtown Columbia campus was the scene of an apparent murder-suicide on Thursday, and two individuals were reported dead.
The efforts of a South Carolina mayor trying to alter a war memorial, which separates fallen soldiers into "white" and "colored" veterans, have been stifled by a state law that prohibits changes to historical markers without legislative approval.
A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial early Tuesday after a jury deadlocked in the case of a white former police chief charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man in 2011.
A South Carolinian executed at age 14 in 1944 has been exonerated after a judge vacated his murder conviction on Wednesday. George Stinney Jr. is believed to have been the youngest person put to death in the United States in the 20th century.
A judge has issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in South Carolina. Judge Irvin Condon has issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in South Carolina.
