South Carolina

The South Carolina math professor stepped in to hold a student’s baby so she could participate in class without distractions.

Republican party leaders did not immediately embrace the bill, which would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy with rare exceptions, and has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress.

From 1995 to 2011 — when the state’s last execution was performed — South Carolina carried out the death penalty with lethal injections on 36 prisoners.

The Senate Medical Affairs Committee vote 9-8 with two Republicans joining all Democrats — to send the bill to the full Senate.

South Carolina’s bill currently allows abortions if a mother's life is in danger and then lists several different medical emergencies that would fit into that exception.

The creators of the program have given away more than 30 belts to students at a South Carolina high school since the start of the school year.

The U.S. Army is investigating the specific cause of the National Guard soldier's death in South Carolina.

When officers arrived, they were met with a large crowd arguing and attempting to attack one another.

An outdoorsy eight-year-old found a fossilized shark tooth from a long-extinct species while he was on a family vacation in South Carolina earlier this month of August 2022.

The South Carolina “fetal heartbeat” law banning abortion around six weeks is no longer in effect after the state Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked it.

A near total abortion ban in South Carolina that does not include exceptions for pregnancies' caused by rape or incest was sent to the state House floor Tuesday.

The Beaufort County Coroner's Office says it believes the victim slipped into a pond located in the Sun City development and was attacked by the alligator earlier this week.

Nationwide, 2,800 beach umbrella-related injuries were reported from 2010 to 2018.

Attorneys for four death row inmates argue that the inmates would feel terrible pain whether their bodies were “cooking” by electricity or they died by a bullet. A South Carolina judge has 30 days to make a ruling.

A South Carolina 17-year-old has been arrested and charged in the murder of his 4-year-old half-sister, according to authorities.

Alex Murdaugh is already jailed and faces dozens of criminal charges that have piled up in the months since his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed.