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Updated: Jan. 7, 2022 at 7:45 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Sen. Davis, R-Beaufort, says his bill is “very conservative” while also allowing doctors to give patients suffering from debilitating health conditions like Chron’s, PTSD, and chronic pain.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022 at 10:03 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Spearman’s last year in office will include combatting the highly-transmittable omicron variant of COVID-19, assisting schools facing instances and threats of violence, and supporting students and teachers with mental health issues.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 6:52 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Doctors on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 at the Medical University of South Carolina are exhausted.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2021 at 8:03 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Almost 600 miles away from Mayfield, Kentucky, two South Carolina residents are working to help their hometown after tornados turned the city into rubble and killed, injured, and displaced residents.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 5:17 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Michal Higdon and Adam Mintzer
A judge set bond Monday morning for Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh along with several conditions in connection to 21 new charges filed against him last week.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 4:46 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
More than three times this semester she has called her Mom in distress after hearing of classmates who have taken their own lives.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2021 at 3:18 PM EST
|By Adam Mintzer
Some familiar faces will be on your TV screens during The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 at 4:35 AM EST
|By Adam Mintzer and Hannah Robinson
A Lexington County elementary school teacher is accused of having weed edibles in her student prize box, according to Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2021 at 3:50 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
According to court records, both men are charged with presenting a false claim for an insurance payment.
Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 at 4:46 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Nick Neville
The video appears to show one student on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 11:02 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
On Saturday, a fundraiser was held for the mother of Stephen Smith, 19, whose 2015 hit-and-run death is now being looked into again.
Updated: Oct. 27, 2021 at 10:13 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman will not be seeking re-election in 2022.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2021 at 11:55 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The attorneys for the estate of Alex Murdaugh’s former family housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, say they’ve reached a settlement with Murdaugh’s former law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, and Detrick (PMPED).
Updated: Oct. 22, 2021 at 6:16 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A teacher at Clear Dot Charter School in Columbia has been fired following accusations of writing the n-word on his class’ board.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Connor Lomis, Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips
Richland County Judge Clifton Newman presided over the hearing and said when making his decision he considered Murdaugh’s and the community’s safety among other aspects of the case.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2021 at 11:33 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Sam Laundon was reported missing the afternoon after a house party in 2020, according to RCSD.
Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 11:54 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Gray News staff
Victoria Farish Weiss, 27, is charged with possession of a Schedule 1 drug, according to warrants. She is no longer employed with the school district.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2021 at 8:28 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Price believes the tension at these meetings is so high right now because national debates, in particular about COVID-19 mitigation, have become localized.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A South Carolina prison correctional officer can spend up to half of their 12-hour shift locking and unlocking cell doors, according to the agency director.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2021 at 7:43 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
A TikTok video showing a South Carolina man saying he fired more than 40 employees for being vaccinated has been viewed more than 80,000 times.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2021 at 9:37 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
With scheduled public hearings over for the state senators and representatives, elected officials are getting ready to start to redraw the state’s district maps.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2021 at 8:34 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
“This year has been a different start than normal years because we are not in a normal situation."
Updated: Oct. 3, 2021 at 7:42 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The law firm representing the estate for former Murdaugh family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield says they’ve reached a settlement with the lawyer and insurance company who represented Satterfield’s children after she died.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 at 7:32 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The bipartisan infrastructure bill got 69 votes in the U.S. Senate, 19 from Republicans.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2021 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Curtis Edward Smith is accused of dealing opioids to a prominent South Carolina attorney who spent millions on drugs.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The court documents say Gloria Satterfield’s heirs should’ve received about $2.8 million after other fees were deducted but they “were not paid a dime.”
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 11:41 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The CEO of Pfizer says data on the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 will be ready to be sent to the FDA in a matter of days rather than weeks.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 11:23 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The ruling from the SC Supreme Court is just the latest chapter of the Heritage Act’s story.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 6:26 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Ladd said what she’s hearing from school nurses across the state is concerning.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 7:26 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Governor McMaster signed a proclamation Wednesday making September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in South Carolina.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Butler says her ultimate goal is to bring the rate of suicides among South Carolina service members to zero.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
After the death of the long-time housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, Gloria Satterfield, the lawyers for her two children say the surviving family members never got the millions they are entitled to.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Staff and Adam Mintzer
State authorities report they are opening a criminal investigation into the death of the Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper due “inconsistencies” in the original report of her death.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 12:10 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Ray Rivera
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says Alex Murdaugh planned his own shooting.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 7:19 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The below transcriptions have been edited for brevity and clarity.
WH Press Secretary: SC politicians should ‘get out of the way’ of health experts on COVID mitigation
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 9:41 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
When asked what the next steps the Biden Administration is prepared to take in response to this limit on mask requirements, Psaki said they are prepared to support schools who may need it.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 6:53 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
According to the Murdaugh family law firm’s website, it started in 1910.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2021 at 4:11 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips
Murdaugh’s lawyer, Jim Griffin, says family told him there was an entry and exit wound, Murdaugh’s skull was fractured, and there was minor brain bleeding.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 8:51 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Health experts say the increase in coronavirus cases among children is correlating to an increase in hospitalizations.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 5:13 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Adam Mintzer
The South Carolina Supreme Court suspended the law license of a Lowcountry attorney who was wounded in a reported shooting two months after his wife and son were killed in Colleton County.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2021 at 8:13 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Steven Ardary
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says they are investigating a shooting in Hampton County.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2021 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Health experts are concerned things can get worse.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 5:39 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
The U.S. Supreme Court has so far been silent on Texas’ ban on abortions after six weeks, allowing the law to take effect Wednesday.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 12:24 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
While officials with the S.C. Department of Education expected a dip in students' scores because of COVID-19, the final numbers worry them.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 8:32 AM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments on a pair of challenges to the state’s refusal to let school districts require masks for students and teachers.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 10:55 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
More than half of all the COVID-19 cases reported in a statewide, voluntary survey on the spread of the coronavirus in South Carolina were asymptomatic.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 10:37 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Mark Sanford was South Carolina’s Governor, a Congressman, a presidential candidate, and the center of a political scandal.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 11:26 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Health officials are calling the current spike of COVID-19 cases a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” But, some fully immunized people are getting caught in the surge.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
According to the Department of Employment and Workforce, 10,217 more people were working in July than in June of 2021.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 9:05 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer
Federal lawsuits, statements from teacher advocacy groups and petitions have not swayed Gov. Henry McMaster from his position on masking in schools.
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