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Conservative South Carolina lawmakers sue school district for allegedly teaching 'critical race theory' in violation of law

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group of ultra conservative South Carolina lawmakers is suing a local school district and its superintendent alleging the district violated a one-year state law that seeks to prohibit schools from teaching concepts associated with "critical race theory."

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Second chances: T-shirt printing nonprofit changes lives of former inmates

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Terrance Ferrell never wanted to come back to Columbia. His memory of the capital city was of holidays spent with his grandmother visiting relatives at prisons up and down Broad River Road.

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No compromise: How new restrictions on abortion died in South Carolina for the year

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A legislative effort to further restrict abortions in South Carolina has died for the year after Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate failed to reach a compromise in time.

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Second set of College Football Playoff Rankings revealed

The complete, 2nd release of the College Football Playoff top 25 rankings

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South Carolina Gov. McMaster wins reelection against Democrat Cunningham to serve second 4-year term

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Henry McMaster won reelection Tuesday to a second four-year term as South Carolina’s chief executive, a historic win that puts the Columbia Republican on track to become the longest-serving governor in state history.

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Predicting what the second release of the College Football Playoff Rankings will be

We peer into the crystal ball and try to figure out what the second release of the CFP rankings will be.

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Judge says disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh’s South Carolina island can be sold, 401(k) cashed out to pay lawyers and receivers

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s island is being sold.

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The future is now? South Carolina becomes blockchain testing ground with house bought as an NFT

COLUMBIA, South Carolina — History is purportedly being made in Columbia.

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New HBO series explores Murdaugh family’s grip on Lowcountry, deaths and financial crimes

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The HBO miniseries on the Murdaugh murders, “Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty,” was released on HBO Max Thursday, and it’s the most recent addition to the Southern Gothic saga that has gripped South Carolina.

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South Carolina legislators still far apart on abortion ban as clock runs down to pass anything

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina legislators charged with negotiating future restrictions to abortion have yet to agree on a compromise bill that could actually pass the Legislature before the legislative session officially ends next week.

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Mizzou football starts fast, finishes strong in win at No. 25 South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As Cody Schrader bounded into the end zone Saturday, the only sound coming from an otherwise silenced and stunned Williams-Brice Stadium was a faint M-I-Z-Z-O-U chant billowing from the southeast corner.

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Missouri’s Eric Schmitt is not running for president. Staff error led to brief speculation

COLUMBIA, Mo. — No, Eric Schmitt isn’t running for president.

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Want to win the $800M Powerball? You have better odds of these 6 rare things happening to you

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- People have a better chance of being struck by lightning than winning the $800 million Powerball jackpot.

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South Carolina's election website crashes due to traffic spike on first day of early voting

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s elections website went down Monday, the first day of the state’s two-week early voting period, due to a large increase in web traffic.

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Sunsets, sea turtles and hippies? Folly Beach in SC makes this national list. Here’s why

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Laid back, eclectic, edge of America, Folly Beach has been called any number of things.

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South Carolina Supreme Court hears challenge to 6-week ‘fetal heartbeat’ abortion law

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday from abortion providers and the state regarding their legal dispute over South Carolina’s six-week abortion ban, which has been blocked since mid-August pending the state high court’s decision in the case.

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South Carolina judge sets Thursday hearing as lawyers in Murdaugh murder trial continue to spar

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Following allegations that the South Carolina Attorney General’s office has withheld evidence from the defense in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial, a judge has scheduled a Thursday hearing to sort out differences.

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Heavy pressure fails to persuade South Carolina Senate to pass strict near-total abortion ban bill

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Heavy pressure from conservative South Carolinians failed to persuade the state Senate to agree to a near-total abortion ban, further dooming the push for more restrictive legislation this year.

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Starting at No. 1: South Carolina atop women’s basketball Top 25 for upcoming season

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's road to a repeat is quickly approaching.

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Heavy pressure fails to persuade South Carolina Senate to pass near-total abortion ban bill

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Heavy pressure from mainly conservative South Carolinians failed to persuade the state Senate to agree to a near-total abortion ban, further dooming the push for more restrictive legislation this year.

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Defense lawyers say Eddie Smith failed polygraph about Alex Murdaugh’s wife, son

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Defense attorneys for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh say in a new court filing that Curtis “Eddie” Smith, not their client, likely killed Murdaugh’s wife and son in June 2021.

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Alex Murdaugh's murder trial in killings of wife, son to start in January

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh will stand trial beginning in late January in the double slayings of his wife and youngest son.

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Suds? Check. Terror? Check. This new haunted hot spot is a car wash

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- You usually know what you’re getting when you pull into a car wash: The soap, the high pressure rinse, the tire shine, the terrifying monsters covered in fake blood scaring the life out of you.

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Man accused of killing 5 in SC home allegedly heard voices, was awake for 4 days, sheriff says

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Spartanburg man was arrested in Georgia Monday in the deaths of five people at an Inman home, which Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright described as a place where people went to use drugs.

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Can South Carolina execute by firing squad, electrocution? State's high court sets new date to decide

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court now plans to hear oral arguments on Dec. 13 on whether the firing squad and electric chair methods of execution are constitutional.

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