UPDATE: The Sumter Police Department says there was no threat found, and entranceways are reopening.
Along with billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief money, South Carolina lawmakers have another large bonus pot of money to spend soon — $525 million from the federal government over plutonium still sitting inside the state. The money is part of a 2020 settlement with the federal government which promised a plant at the Savannah River Site near Aiken that would turn plutonium from unneeded nuclear weapons into nuclear reactor fuel but instead left about 21,000 pounds of the highly radioactive material in storage in South Carolina.
In his first congressional testimony on the tumultuous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the top U.S. military officer called the 20-year war a “strategic failure” and said he believes the U.S. should have kept several thousand troops in the country to prevent the Taliban takeover that happened faster than forecast.
Tuesday marks World Rabies Day, and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is giving out tips of what you should do if you come in contact with a rabid animal.
Dylann Roof has lost the next phase of his appeal, with a federal court turning down his request for a new hearing to challenge his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.
You may want to start your holiday shopping now. A shipping crisis is making many items on your holiday list a bit more difficult to find and more expensive.
DHEC reports 1,791 new cases of COVID-19 and 47 new deaths in South Carolina.
Pfizer has submitted research to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in children as it moves closer to seeking approval for expanded use of the shots.
For the past century, the Murdaughs have steered much of the legal world in this remote corner of South Carolina — north of Savannah, Georgia, and far from the interstate or just about anything else. Running the prosecutor’s office and a large civil law firm allowed the Murdaughs to do it quietly, until recently.
Columbia, SC (WOLO) — Richland School District Two board members will consider calling on state legislators to repeal a controversial budget proviso. At Tuesday night’s meeting, according to its agenda the board will vote on a resolution urging the General Assembly to repeal budget proviso 1.108. That’s controversial proviso that prohibits school districts in South Carolina from using state funds…
