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Neighbours had heard shouting in the early hours of the morning.

A native title determination recognising commercial rights for the first time in Central Australia has been settled, seven years after the claims process began.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation heir to a powerful South Carolina legal, law enforcement and political family, was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife and son in a case that brought the glare of national and international media attention to a long-secluded but corrupt corner of the…

WALTERBORO, S.C. — The South Carolina pathologist who performed autopsies on Paul and Maggie Murdaugh after their murders disputed defense witnesses on Tuesday who said her conclusions about how the son and mother died were incorrect.

Dr Kenny Kinsey rubbished what he described as the ‘preposterous’ theories from the defence that Paul was shot in the head at point-blank range and that Maggie was killed by a 5”2’ shooter

WALTERBORO, S.C. — The gunman who killed Maggie Murdaugh must have been far shorter than Alex Murdaugh, currently on trial for the murders of his wife and son, a gunshot expert testified for the defense Tuesday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — On the day the South Carolina General Assembly picked a new Supreme Court justice, the current members of the state’s highest court said they wouldn’t reconsider a previous ruling striking down a six-week abortion ban.

Top state prosecutors are urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates

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