The Latest Breaking News from Columbia

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina six-week abortion ban that has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature is now for the second time headed to the governor’s desk, whose expected signature enacting the bill into law is likely to be challenged immediately.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants to bring an optimistic tone as he makes his bid for the White House.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A series of experiments at the University of South Carolina in Columbia involving rats, cocaine and electric shocks has been stopped following a university investigation into complaints about lab-animal welfare.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A secret order that resulted in the early release of convicted South Carolina murderer Jeroid Price was unsealed Thursday by the state Supreme Court, detailing publicly for the first time what information Price shared to cut nearly 16 years off his prison sentence.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A law enforcement officer was shot early Sunday morning in the line of duty, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.

Julio Armando Buelvas Salinas was crushed to death by a freight lift at Comerpes SA seafood warehouse in Cartagena, Columbia, on his 26th birthday - with his family waiting at his house with a cake

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Republican support for Donald Trump is still strong, according to a new Winthrop University Poll that shows the former president with a 21-point lead over his GOP challengers for president.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina U.S. Sen Tim Scott has launched an exploratory committee for a 2024 presidential run.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — At the University of South Carolina, the state’s flagship college is working to add Braille to nameplates outside professors’ offices after a number of blind and low-vision students said they were having trouble attending office hours.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston handed down an order prohibiting three groups from harvesting horseshoe crabs on several of South Carolina’s beaches this season.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Before dawn on a steamy July day in 2015, Hampton County coroner Ernie Washington was called to an area of pine trees and cornfields, where a young man’s body was sprawled in the middle of the road.