The Latest Breaking News from South Carolina

A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution

State law dictates that Moore will have to decide the method by which he will be killed

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday issued an execution notice for Richard Moore that set his execution date for four weeks from April 7.

‘When we ask hard questions of an African-American nominee who’s liberal, all of a sudden we’re racist,’ the South Carolina Republican crows.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Republican lawmaker's attempt to stall a bipartisan-backed bill to legalize certain forms of marijuana for medical use failed as the proposal was advanced Thursday by the state House's only Democratic-majority committee.

The state of South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after prison officials indicated they are ready to conduct executions by firing squad

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a rare and blunt dissent Wednesday in an Upstate death penalty case about a 1999 convenience store robbery that four of the five justices agreed to uphold.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to be confirmed this week after a bipartisan group of senators voted on Monday to advance her nomination. So far only three Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have said they will support Jackson.…

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina Republican congressional candidate Katie Arrington wants the Department of Defense to hand over all public records that discuss the suspension of her security clearance so that she can "expose the misconduct and inappropriate actions" taken by the federal agency where she previously worked.

Weather forecasters planned to survey damage from several possible tornadoes in Georgia and South Carolina, but said that effort could be interrupted by the potential for more storms Wednesday

South Carolina Democrats lined up more than 1,000 amendments in a symbolic attempt to delay a vote on a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools and colleges