South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be the first person executed this year on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hear his case.

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering a high school friend is scheduled to be put to death Friday, the first execution in the United States this year. There were 25 executions in the United States last year.

Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in the trunk of her burned car.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.

South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis says calls for him to resign over an accounting error that left the state sorting out what happened to a $1.8 billion fund amounted to a witch hunt.

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are taught in the state’s K-12 schools.

An illegal immigrant arrested for drunk driving in South Carolina has a lengthy criminal history in the United States and had been deported three times in less than five years.

President Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office in South Carolina WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP ... up to achieve his life's goal of being elected president of the United States. On the eve of Monday's inauguration of Republican President ...

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, drawing mixed reactions from South Carolina leaders. Here’s what they’re

Two years after a South Carolina teenager lost his life to suicide amid what officials say was a sextortion scheme, a man has been extradited to the United States to face charges, United States Attorney Adair Ford Boroughs and federal,

Deputies arrested an employee accused of attempting to bring a gun into a school district's administrative building.

Trevyn Gray is an intern, covering South Carolina men’s basketball for The (Columbia) State. He is a recent graduate from the University of Georgia and previously worked at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Tampa Bay Times. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.