COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied South Carolina prosecutors' request to delay a new trial for an inmate who spent nearly three decades on death row until justices can review an appellate decision tossing his conviction.
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department detectives are seeking help from citizens in identifying a man they say attempted to kidnap a 9-year-old girl at about 7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 6 while the girl played with friends outside her residence at a mobile home park on Charleston Highway near West Columbia.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Myrtle Beach Police say state Rep. Thad Viers was arrested after an ex-girlfriend says he continued to call, text and email for more than five months after they broke up.
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old baby sitter has been arrested after slipping an anti-anxiety drug into the lunch of a 4-year-old girl she was watching to calm the child down and get her to take a nap.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Politicians are reacting with praise and criticism to President Obama's new strategy for a leaner, smaller military and the effect it might have in the Carolinas.
An early morning fire at a Midlands restaurant is deemed arson.
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is keeping his focus on President Barack Obama as he works South Carolina, leaving the Republican intraparty attacks to his new public ally, Sen. John McCain.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — It's an official world record. The 744 people who danced the shag at the same time last fall in North Myrtle Beach have set the record for the largest Carolina shag dance.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston Mayor Joe Riley says bikes and pedestrians are being banned from a Charleston expressway where a bicyclist was struck and killed last summer.
WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) _ A man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to killing two sisters in an Oconee County home invasion. Prosecutors said Shawn Owens pleaded guilty Friday to murder.
Richland County K-9 Deputy, Fargo, died like a true soldier in battle, according to his partner who recounts the details of the dog's final moments.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The mother of an 18-month-old South Carolina boy missing for more than a month initially told investigators she didn't have a son when they questioned her.
Saturday, January 7, from 11:00am to 1:00pm, at CMRTA Headquarters on Lucius Road, officials will host a public forum. Riders of Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority, CMRTA, will have a chance to respond to a reduction in services that could come as early as next month.
Columbia Police continue to search for 18 month old, Amir Jennings. Thursday, ABC Columbia News learned officials had issued 3 search warrants in the case.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Columbia Parks and Recreation Department employee has pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks from contractors working on city projects.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Police say they have used cadaver dogs to search a car and home belonging to the South Carolina woman they accuse of repeatedly lying to them about where her 18-month-old son is.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is predicting that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will win her state's pivotal Southern primary.
CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is continuing his campaign tour of the South Carolina coast.
ALLENDALE, S.C. (AP) — More than 700 elementary school children in Hampton and Allendale counties are getting a chance to read with Cocky.
The leaders of South Carolina's Republican-controlled Legislature say they will not use an additional $913 million in revenue to boost agencies' budgets back to pre-recession levels.
