Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 12:18 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of an early-morning fire that has devastated a childhood development center in Summerville.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 9:50 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Amanda Alvarado
Stephen Smith was 19 years old when he was found dead on the side of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina, in 2015.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 12:38 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The former CEO of Palmetto State Bank is once again requesting a new trial. This time based on Alex Murdaugh’s testimony in his murder trial last month.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 1:02 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Dylan Leatherwood and The Associated Press
For more than 80 years, Alex Murdaugh’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather tried cases as elected prosecutors in the same court where Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:12 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins and James Pollard
The defense attorneys who represented disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh during his murder trial plan to speak with reporters Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 5:46 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
The 12 jurors and two alternate jurors assembled Wednesday morning for a trip to the Colleton County property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 7:30 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Much was made about a blue raincoat during day 11 of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 7:07 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and The Associated Press
A pair of videos recorded by Paul Murdaugh the night he and his mother were killed was a focus of testimony as his father, Alex Murdaugh, stands trial for their deaths.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 9:36 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute, Blair Sabol and Jeffrey Collins
The former lawyer accused of murdering his own wife and son returned to the courtroom as the state continued to present its case against him Monday.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute and Patrick Phillips
A busy second day in the Alex Murdaugh trial saw the judge rule on three motions and qualify a fourth pool of jurors to return for actual jury selection.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will begin in Walterboro this week with jury selection set to begin Monday morning.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 1:22 PM EST
|By Cameron Bopp and Steven Ardary
Just days before disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh is set to face trial for charges in the murders of his wife and youngest son, his defense team is calling for a state expert’s testimony to be excluded from the trial.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 5:57 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Authorities said two people traveling into Charleston International Airport were arrested after several pounds of marijuana was found in their luggage.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:08 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
Officials at an animal shelter in South Carolina say a cat that was brought in for lifesaving surgery has died.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 11:33 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Emergency allotments for South Carolina households receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be ending in January, the state’s Department of Social Services announced Thursday.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 10:00 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
A bill referred to the House Ways and Means Committee would give South Carolinians the opportunity to take a ride to space.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 11:17 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Debra Worley
The officer was taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 7:21 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Two inmates helped a South Carolina corrections officer who was being assaulted Monday night, the state’s department of corrections said.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 6:47 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina fell 10.1 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon to $2.88, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas station.
Updated: Dec. 10, 2022 at 3:23 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Dylan Leatherwood and Emily Johnson
The Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office says a missing 5-year-old was found in Virginia, and her father is being charged with her mother’s murder.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 7:53 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina fell 10.6 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon to $2.98, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:53 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The aquarium received a $2 million donation from Boeing to help create the Boeing Learning Lab at the Maritime Center.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2022 at 12:40 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism is making it easier to get outside and walk off the extra calories.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 11:34 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Anna Harris
A candlelight vigil will be held on Wednesday at the Woodland High School Football stadium to honor the life of one of the three University of Virginia students killed in a shooting.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 11:31 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary
The group that owns Marion Square in downtown Charleston has filed a lawsuit against the city, Charleston City Council and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson over the removal of the John C. Calhoun statue that once stood in the square.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 12:56 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Nick Reagan
A federal lawsuit claims Facebook radicalized Dylann Roof culminating in the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 11:35 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The United States Justice Department on Wednesday announced they will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against two former Charleston County deputies for the death of Jamal Sutherland.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Nick Reagan and Patrick Phillips
A state circuit court judge mostly sided with the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office Thursday, denying motions filed by the defense team of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 6:10 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina rose 10.1 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon up to $3.33, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 6:32 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina rose 6.8 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon up to $3.23, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 7:10 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Rey Llerena
A crash involving a school bus in North Charleston sent seven people to the hospital Tuesday morning.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 1:25 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
Four of the eight students on the bus and the driver were taken to the hospital, along with the student who had been hit.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2022 at 8:46 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Gas prices in South Carolina fell 6.2 cents last week bringing the state’s average price per gallon down to $3.20, according to GasBuddy’s weekly survey of the state’s gas stations.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2022 at 11:27 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Wildlife officials in South Carolina are looking to learn more about the distribution of a non-native species of crab.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 6:21 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Melissa Rademaker
The lawyers for Alex Murdaugh said in a statement they expect to receive evidence from the state in their client’s murder trial on Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 7:14 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The North Charleston Police Department says a man was arrested after he fled from a traffic stop and attempted to drown a police dog.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2022 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Lauren Quinlan
A Colleton County judge granted motions from the state and the defense concerning evidence in the murder trial of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh Monday.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 12:13 PM EDT
|By Dylan Leatherwood, Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
The Hanahan Police Department confirmed Thursday morning that police have found a 7-year-old girl reported as a kidnapping victim.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 8:14 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Emily Johnson
North Charleston Police responded to a large fight that broke out at the North Charleston Chuck E. Cheese restaurant Saturday night, arresting three and temporarily detaining a fourth person.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 6:02 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
A reported shooting near South Carolina State University placed the school on a two-hour lockdown early Monday morning.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2022 at 6:56 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Authorities say a man wanted in connection to a deadly July 5 hit-and-run on James Island turned himself in on Friday.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 9:23 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Jordan Gartner
A police officer in South Carolina is being recognized for helping save a woman from a burning car.
Updated: Jul. 18, 2022 at 1:07 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
For a fifth straight week drivers in South Carolina are seeing lower prices at the gas pumps.
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 at 7:14 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
South Carolina drivers are seeing a fourth consecutive week of relief at the gas pump as the average price for a gallon of gas continues to fall.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 11:33 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary and Debra Worley
The Charleson County Sheriff’s Office said Jennings was walking on the road when he was hit by a vehicle that drove away from the area then hit again by a second vehicle that also left the scene.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 10:39 PM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The attorneys for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday that he was not the subject or target of an investigation from Fulton County, Ga. investigators.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
The South Carolina State Fair has opened submissions for competitive exhibits.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 6:48 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
Drivers in South Carolina are seeing a double-digit drop in the average price for a gallon of gas.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 5:35 AM EDT
|By Steven Ardary
State health officials are encouraging South Carolinians to get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in recognition of National HIV Testing Day.
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